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Christopher Robinson

b. 1935 Person Name: Christopher Robinson (b. 1936) Hymnal Title: Ancient and Modern Arranger (last verse) of "GOD REST YOU MERRY" in Ancient and Modern

Adrian Vernon Fish

b. 1956 Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Arranger of "GOD REST YOU MERRY" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

David Willcocks

1919 - 2015 Person Name: David Willcocks (born 1919) Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Arranger of "GOD REST YOU MERRY" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

1652 - 1715 Person Name: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Worship Author of "While Shepherds Watched" in Lutheran Worship Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Elizabeth Poston

1905 - 1987 Person Name: E. P. Hymnal Title: The Cambridge Hymnal Arranger of "[God rest you merry, Gentlemen]" in The Cambridge Hymnal Elizabeth Poston (24 October 1905 – 18 March 1987) was an English composer, pianist, and writer. See more in: Wikipedia

Anonymous

Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Thomas W. Lyon

b. 1954 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Adapter of "Que Dieu Vous Garde" in The Cyber Hymnal

Simon Zachariah

b. 1951 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Translator of "നൽ ദൈവത്തിൽ സന്തോഷിച്ചീടിൻ" in The Cyber Hymnal

Winfred Douglas

1867 - 1944 Person Name: Charles Winfred Douglas, 1867-1944 Hymnal Title: The Hymnal 1982 Harmonizer of "GOD REST YOU MERRY" in The Hymnal 1982 Charles Winfred Douglas (b. Oswego, NY, 1867; d. Santa Rosa, CA, 1944), an influential leader in Episcopalian liturgical and musical life. Educated at Syracuse University and St. Andrews Divinity School, Syracuse, New York, he moved to Colorado for his health. There he studied at St. Matthew's Hall, Denver, and founded the Mission of the Transfiguration in Evergreen (1897). Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1899, he also studied in France, Germany and England, where he spent time with the Benedictines of Solesmes on the Island of Wight from 1903 to 1906. For much of his life, Douglas served as director of music at the Community of St. Mary in Peekskill, New York, and had associations with cathedrals in Denver, Colorado, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He promoted chanting and plainsong in the Episcopal Church through workshops and publications such as The American Psalter (1929), the Plainsong Psalter (1932), and the Monastic Diurnal (1932). His writings include program notes for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, various hymn preludes; organ, as well as the book, Church Music in History and Practice (1937). He was editor of both the Hymnal 1916 and its significant successor, Hymnal 1940, of the Episcopal Church. Douglas's other achievements include a thorough knowledge of the life and culture of Hopi and Navajo natives, among whom he lived for a number of years. Bert Polman