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Cunningham

Hymnal Number: 255 Author of "Sweet babe, she glancéd into our world to see" in Hymns of the Ages

C. S. Guild

1827 - 1898 Editor of "" in Hymns of the Ages

1510 - 1556 Person Name: Lord Vaux, -1555 Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "Companion none is like" in Hymns of the Ages Vaux, Thomas, Lord. The Poems of this nobleman appeared posthumously in The Paradise of Dainty Devices, 1576. According to a note at the back of the title page of the 1580 ed., the poems which therein appear under the name of Vaux were written by "the elder," i.e. Thomas, second Lord Vaux, who was born in 1510, and died before May 31, 1557. Other writers have suggested that William, the third Lord Vaux, was a joint contributor with his father. William died. in 1595. The Vaux poems, 15 in all, were republished by Dr. Grosart in his Fuller Worthies Library, Miscell., vol. iv. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Giles Fletcher

1585 - 1623 Person Name: Giles Fletcher, 1586-1623 Hymnal Number: 287 Author of "Here may the band that now in triumph shines" in Hymns of the Ages Fletcher, Giles, B.D., son of Dr. Giles Fletcher, cousin of John Fletcher, the dramatic poet, and brother of Phineas Fletcher (p. 379, i.) was born probably in London, circa 1585, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1606, and B.D. 1619. He was for some time Rector of Alderton, Suffolk, and died in 1623. His poem, Christ's Victory and Triumph, in Four Parts, was published in 1610. The cento "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates," in Dr. Neale's Hymns . . . on the Joys and Glories of Paradise, 1865, is compiled, with alterations, from Pt. iv. of this poem. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Chauncy Hare Townsend

1798 - 1868 Hymnal Number: 139 Author of "Wait! for the day is breaking" in Hymns of the Ages

Rees

Hymnal Number: 195 Author of "That Rock is Christ" in Hymns of the Ages

Christopher Harvey

Hymnal Number: 17 Author of "Travels At Home" in Hymns of the Ages

Pierre Bernard

Hymnal Number: 166 Author of "The Lords' Prayer Illustrated" in Hymns of the Ages

Ticknor & Fields

Publisher of "" in Hymns of the Ages

James H. Perkins

1810 - 1849 Person Name: J. H. Perkins Hymnal Number: 68 Author of "Late to our town there came a maid" in Hymns of the Ages Perkins, Rev. James Handasyd. (Boston, Massachusetts, July 31, 1810--December 14, 1849, near Cincinnati, Ohio). He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Round Hill School. Northampton, Mass. After a brief business experience in Boston he moved to Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837, but two years later he took up the Ministry-at-Large organized by the First Congregational Society (Unitarian) of Cincinnati, and later became pastor of the church. He was active in social reforms and as a lecturer, and was author of a number of essays descriptive of life in what was then the far west. The hymn in 3 stanzas, C.M., beginning "It is a faith sublime and sure" attributed to "J.H. Perkins" in Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns (1846-1848) is presumably by him, although it is not included with his poems printed in the Memoir and Writings of James Handasyde Perkins, edited by W.H. Channing, Cincinnati, 1851. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives