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S. M. Hill

Person Name: Samuel Magnus Hill Meter: 11.11.11.5 Translator of "Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort" in The Hymnal and Order of Service

1935 - 2011 Person Name: Roy F. Kehl, b. 1935 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Arranger of "NOCTE SURGENTES" in The Hymnal 1982 Born in St. Louis, Missouri, November 22, 1935. Died in Evanston, Illinois, February 12, 2011. A renowned organist and philanthropist, he served on the Hymn Music Committee during the compilation and editing of the Episcopal Church's Hymnal 1982. Obituary, Chicago Tribune

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/

K. Lee Scott

b. 1950 Person Name: K. Lee Scott, b. 1950 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Composer of "SHADES MOUNTAIN" in Christian Worship (1993)

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)

Frank J. Whiteley

1914 - 1998 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Author of "Praise and Thanksgiving Be to God" in Lutheran Book of Worship Whiteley, Frank J. (Sheffield, England, December 22, 1914-- ). United Church. Queen's University (Kingston), B.A., 1944, B.D., 1946; Victoria College (Toronto), M.Th., 1970. Pastorates in Ontario at Parham, 1943-1946; Coe Hill, 1946-1948; Oshawa, 1948-1952; Picton, 1952-1960; Peterborough, 1960-1967; Sarnia, 1967-?. His best-known hymn, found in The Hymn Book (1971), grew out of the theme of his M.Th. thesis; in wording it, he accepted counsel from Harold F. Yardley. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

P. C. Paulsen

1881 - 1948 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Translator of "Young People's Savior" Paul Christian Paulsen was born on March 26, 1881, in Alstrup, Jutland, Denmark. He emigrated to America in 1904, was ordained in 1911, and served as a Lutheran pastor in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, California, and Alberta, Canada. He died on July 26, 1948. NN, Hymnary

Ewald Kockritz

1876 - 1931 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Author of "Lord, I Would Praise Thee" in Elmhurst Hymnal Julius Ewald Kockritz, 1876-1931 Born: January 3, 1876, Napoleonville, Louisiana. Died: March 28, 1931. Buried: Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. Son of Herman and Emma Winkler Kockritz, Ewald was one of 10 children. He grew up in Henderson, Kentucky, and as a young man, worked for a grain company, and as a journalist and telegraph operator. At age 16, he became private secretary to Governor John Young of Kentucky, a post he held three years. He then attended Eden Theological Seminary (graduated 1901), and Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (graduated 1908). Kockritz served pastorates in Clarington, Ohio (1901-05); St. Luke’s, Cincinnati (1905-10); Salem, New Orleans (1910-17); and Bethel, Evansville (1917-31). He became a leader in the Lutheran Evangelical Synod of North America: He edited several of the denomination’s Sunday school publications (1907-15), served on the Sunday School Board, and on the Board of Religious Education (1913-29, chairman for eight years). He also served on the War Welfare Commission in World War I, was his denomination’s moderator in 1929, and was the synod’s general secretary the last years of his life. --www.hymntime.com/tch