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Richard Dirksen

1921 - 2003 Person Name: Richard W. Dirksen, b. 1921 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Composer of "INNISFREE FARM" in With One Voice Richard Dirksen

1908 - 1979 Person Name: Gerald H. Knight, 1908-1979 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Harmonizer of "ANGERS" in The Book of Praise Gerald Hocken Knight CBE (1908–1979) was an cathedral organist, who served at Canterbury Cathedral. Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, and was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was an articled organ pupil of Hubert Stanley Middleton at Truro Cathedral. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in 1964. He published the following compositions and books: The Treasury of English Church Music. Volume one. 1100-1545. Edited by Denis Stevens, etc. 1965 Accompaniments for unison Hymn-singing. 1971 Christ whose Glory fills the Skies. [Anthem for treble voices and organ.] Words by Charles Wesley, etc. 1957 The Coventry Mass. Adapted from medieval sources. Accompaniment by G. H. Knight. 1966 Incidental Vocal Music to "The Devil to pay," Play by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1939 Incidental Music to The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy L. Sayers. 1938 Twenty Questions on Church Music. Answered by G. H. Knight (Series. no. 3.), 1950 R.S.C.M. The first forty years. 1968 --en.wikipedia.org/

Philippe Goibaud Du Bois

1626 - 1694 Person Name: Philippe Goibaud Dubois, 1624-1696 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Composer of "CHRISTE FONS JUGIS" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada

Arthur Hutchings

1906 - 1989 Person Name: Arthur Hutchings, 1906-89 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Composer of "GERARD" in The New English Hymnal Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings (1906–1989) was an English musicologist, composer, and professor of music at the University of Durham, England. He wrote extensively on topics as varied as nineteenth-century English liturgical composition, Schubert, Purcell, Edmund Rubbra, and baroque concertos; but his most famous book was the Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos, published in 1948 and often reissued since. Among his other books are The Invention and Composition of Music and Church Music in the Nineteenth Century. During the late 1970s his articles on music regularly appeared in the monthly magazine Records and Recording. His compositions include the Seasonal Preludes for organ, the overture Oriana Triumphans, the opera Marriage à la Mode, and the operetta The Plumber's Arms. Among his choral works are Hosanna to the Son of David, God is Gone Up, Grant Them Rest, and the Communion Service on Russian Themes. Professor Hutchings served for many years as a Director of the English Hymnal Company and a number of his tunes were included in the 1986 New English Hymnal. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Laurence Housman

1865 - 1959 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Translator (from Latin) of "He Whose Confession God of Old Accepted" in The Cyber Hymnal Housman, Lawrence, author and artist, was born July 18, 1867, at Bromsgrove, Worcs. His devotional poetry is principally in his Spikenard, 1898, and Bethlehem, 1902. To the English Hymnal, 1906, he contributed eight translations (142, 188, 191, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234); also three original hymns, with a fourth previously published, viz.:— 1. Lord God of Hosts, within Whose hand. St. George. 2. The Maker of the sun and moon. Christmas. From Bethlehem, 1902, p. 75. 3. The Saint who first found grace to pen. St. Mark. 4. When Christ was born in Bethlehem. Holy Innocents. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================== Born: July 18, 1865, Bromsgrove, Hereford, England. Died: February 20, 1959, Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Buried: St. Mary’s, Bathwick, Smallcombe, near Bath. Housman studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He had great success as an illustrator, but when his eyesight began to fail, he turned to writing books and plays. He wrote 80 books during his lifetime. He often seemed to fall afoul of the censors, though, for religious and political reasons. A committed socialist and pacifist, in 1907, he helped found the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. He was also an honorary associate of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. His works include: Jump-to-Glory Jane, by Meredith Goblin Market, by Christiantina Rossetti, 1893 The End of Elfintown, by Jane Barlow, 1894 Spikenard, 1898 The Sensitive Plant, 1898 Bethlehem, 1902 The Blue Moon, 1904 Angels and Ministers, 1921 Little Plays of St. Francis, 1922 Victoria Regina, 1937 The Unexpected Years, 1937 (autobiography) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Herman H. Brueckner

1866 - 1942 Person Name: H. Brueckner Meter: 11.11.11.5 Translator of "Jesus, Our Captain, Hope Of Our Salvation" in American Lutheran Hymnal Born: March 11, 1866, Grundy County, Iowa (birth name: Herman Heinrich Moritz Brueckner). Died: January 25, 1942, Hebron, Nebraska (funeral held in Beatrice, Nebraska). Buried: St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Waverly, Iowa. After ordination in 1888, Brueckner pastored in Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. He later moved to Iowa City, Iowa, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Iowa State University in 1917. In 1926, he joined the faculty of Hebron College in Nebraska. In 1938, Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him. He retired as professor emeritus from Hebron College in 1941. Sources: Erickson, p. 254 Findagrave, accessed 14 Nov 2016 Hustad, p. 213 Stulken, p. 325 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Hilary Greenwood

1929 - 2003 Person Name: Hilary Greenwood, SSM, 1929-2003 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Author of "Men write their verses, night of silence broken" in New English Praise

R. Ellis Roberts

1879 - 1953 Person Name: Richard E. Roberts Meter: 11.11.11.5 Translator (from Latin) of "Let Thine Example" in The Cyber Hymnal Roberts, Richard Ellis, was born in London, Feb. 26, 1879, and now (1906) is a journalist, &c, residing at Dorchester, Oxon. He contributed four translations to The English Hymnal,1906. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Derek Holman

b. 1931 Person Name: Derek Holman 1931- Meter: 11.11.11.5 Harmonizer of "CHRISTE SANCTORUM" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada

Paul, the Deacon

720 - 799 Person Name: Paul the Deacon Meter: 11.11.11.5 Author of "Let Thine Example" in The Cyber Hymnal Paul the Deacon [Paulus Diaconus], son of Warnefrid or Winefrid, was born at Frinli, in Italy, circa 730. He studied at Pavia. For some time he was tutor to Adelperga, daughter of Desiderius, the last of the Lombard kings, and then lived at the court of her husband, Arichisius of Beneveuto. Eventually he became a monk at Monte Cassino, where he died circa 799. He was the author of several works, including Be Gest. Langobardorum. His hymn, “Ut queant laxis resonare fibris," is in three parts. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)