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Ella S. Armitage
1841 - 1931 Author of "O Lord of all, we bring to Thee" in Hymns of the Centuries E. S. A. The initials of Ella Sophia Armitage, née Bulley, daughter of S. M. Bulley, of Liverpool, and granddaughter of T. Raffles, D.D. (p. 948, ii.). She was born at Liverpool, March 3, 1841, and married in 1874 to the Rev. E. Armitage, M.A., now (1891) Theological Professor in the Congregational United College, Bradford. Mrs. Armitage has published: (1) The Childhood of the English Nation; (2) The Connection of England and Scotland; (3) The Education of a Christian Home; and (4) a Service of Song entitled The Garden of the Lord, Lond., Novello, 1881. In the last work there are 16 of her original hymns. Mrs. Armitage's hymns in common use include:—
1. Eternal Love, Whose law doth sway. Holy Matrimony. Written in 1879 for the marriage of George F. Armitage.
2. Except the Lord the temple build. Laying Foundation-Stone of Sunday School. Written at Waterhead, Oldham, in 1875 for the laying of the foundation-stone of a new Sunday school.
3. In our dear Lord's garden. Christ’s love for Children, Written at Waterhead in 1881, and published in The Garden of the Lord.
4. It is the Lord Himself who tends. Christ the Divine Gardener. Written for The Garden of the Lord, 1881.
5. March on, march on, ye soldiers true. Missions. Written at Waterhead, Oldham, circa 1886, for a missionary meeting.
6. Not only for the goodly fruit-trees tall. Christ's care of Children. Written at Waterhead, Oldham, for The Garden of the Lord, 1881.
7. 0 Father, in Thy Father's heart. Holy Baptism. Written for the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887.
8. 0 Lord of all, we bring to Thee our sacrifice of praise. Sunday School Festival. Written at Waterhead, Oldham, circa 1879, for a Whitsuntide Sunday school festival.
9. 0 Lord of life, and love, and power. Living to God. Written at Waterhead, Oldham, in 1875, for the opening of a new Sunday school, and published in The Garden of the Lord, 1881.
All these hymns are in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887; Nos. 2, 8, in the Methodist Free Church Hymns, 1889 ; Nos. 3, 4, in the S. S. Union Service Book for Church & School, 1891; and Nos. 1, 5, and 9 in Hunter's Hymns of Faith & Life, Glasgow, 1889. Taken as a whole, Mrs. Armitage's hymns are exceptionally good.
--John Julian Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Armitage, Ella S., p. 1560, ii., under E. S. A. Since 3892, the following additional hymns by Mrs. Armitage have come into common use:
1. O Lord of Hosts, the fight is long. [Temperance.] Written by request for Horder's Hys. Suppl. to Existing Collections., 1894, No. 1226. It is also in The Methodist Hymn Book., 1904, and Horder's Worship Song, 1903.
2. Praise for the Garden of God upon earth. [Flower Services.] Published in her Garden of the Lord, 1881. It is an unusually good hymn for Flower Services.
3. The day of prayer is ending. [Evening.] Published in Horder's Hymns Suppl., &c, 1894, and hisWorship Song, 1905.
4. Though home be dear, and life be sweet. [Earth not our Home] Written for a Service of Song (not published), and included in Horder's Hymns Supplement, 1894, and his Worship Song, 1905. It is all in The Pilgrim Hymnal, Boston, U.S.A., 1904.
Mrs. Armitage's hymns are becoming widely used, both in America and at home.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Ella S. Armitage
George Gascoigne
1525 - 1577 Author of "Ye that have spent the silent night" in Hymns of the Centuries Gascoigne, George, son and heir of Sir John Gascoigne. The date and place of his birth are unknown, but it is probable that he was born about 1525, and from a statement in the Address to Queen Elizabeth prefixed to one of his works, he seems to have spent a part of his early life in Westmoreland. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, from whence he entered the Middle Temple as a student of law before 1548; but neglecting his studies he led a life of reckless extravagance and dissipation, on account of which he was disinherited by his father. In 1555 he migrated to Gray's Inn, but seems to have left it also. In 1557-58 he represented Bedford in Parliament. In 1565 he returned to Gray's Inn, and there, in the following year, two plays by him were represented, The Supposes, translated from the Italian of Ariosto, and Jocasta, adapted from the Phoenissae of Euripides. To the latter Gascoigne contributed three acts. In 1572 he was returned to Parliament as member for the borough of Midhurst: but objections being made to his character he appears not to have taken his seat, and not long afterwards went to the Low Countries and took service with William of Orange, from whom he received a captain's commission. His gallant conduct in the field obtained the favourable notice of that Prince, but after some time he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards and sent back to England.
During Gascoigne's absence his first book, A Hundredth sundrie Floures bound up in one small Poesie, the manuscript of which he had left in the hands of a friend, was printed in 1572 or 1573 without his permission, and after his return from Holland, he published in 1575 a corrected and enlarged edition of his Poesies. Thenceforward he seems to have led a literary life, and is said to have been in some way attached to the court. On the occasion of Elizabeth's celebrated visit to Kenilworth in the summer of 1575, Gascoigne was commissioned by Leicester to devise the masques, &c, performed for the Queen's entertainment. He died at Stamford, Lincolnshire, Oct. 7, 1577, and was probably buried by his friend George Whetstone in the family vault of the Whetstones at Barnack, but this id not certainly known. At some time between 1558 and 1568 Gascoigne married Elizabeth Breton, mother, by her first husband, of the poet Nicholas Breton, and by her had a son. His widow survived until 1585. Gascoigne is noticeable as being one of the earliest English dramatists, the first English satirist, and the first English critic in poetry. In 1869 his poems were collected and edited for the Roxburghe Library by W. C. Hazlitt, and in 1868 his Notes of Instruction in English Verse; The Steele Glas; and The Complaynt of Philomene were included in English reprints edited by Edward Arber, together with Whetstone's metrical life of Gascoigne. To modern hymnody he is known by "We that have passed in slumber sweet," an altered version of his morning hymn, "Ye that have spent the silent night;" and other religious poems. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
George Gascoigne
F. Flaxington Harker
1876 - 1936 Composer of "FESTAL HYMN" in Hymns of the Centuries
F. Flaxington Harker
