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Derek Holman

b. 1931 Person Name: Derek Holman, 1931- Harmonizer of "PUER NOBIS NASCITUR" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada

1834 - 1905 Person Name: H. S. Irons Composer of "HOPE" in The Home and School Hymnal Born: January 19, 1834, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: June 29, 1905, Nottingham, England. Irons was a nephew of the brothers Stephen & George Elvey. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under T. E. Jones. After studying music under Stephen Elvey at Oxford, he was appointed organist at St. Columba’s College, a large public school at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. He stayed there only a few months before being offered the position of organist at Southwell Minister. From Southwell, he went to Chester as assistant organist to Frederic Gunton. Three years later, he accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s Church, Nottingham, where he remained until his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Christopher Edwin Willing

1830 - 1904 Person Name: Christopher E. Willing Composer of "ALSTONE" in The Hymnal Christopher Edwin Willing; Devon, England, 1830 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

J. E. Sweetser

1817 - 1873 Person Name: Joseph Emerson Sweetser (1825-1873) Composer of "ROSE HILL" in Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes

William Robertson

1820 - 1864 Author of "A Little Child the Savior Came" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Robertson, William, M.A., eldest son of the Rev. John Robertson, D.D., of Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, was born at Cambuslang, July 15, 1820. He studied and graduated M.A. at the University of Glasgow. In 1843 he became parish minister of Monzievaird, Perthshire, where he died June 9, 1864. He was appointed a member of the Hymnal Committee of the Established Church in 1852, 1853, and 1857, and contributed 2 hymns to their Hymns for Public Worship, 1861, since included in their Scottish Hymnal, 1869, which have attained considerable popularity, viz., "A little child the Saviour came" (Christmas), and a version of the Te Deum, which begins, "Thee God we praise, Thee Lord confess." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

F. Cunningham Woods

1862 - 1929 Person Name: F. C. Woods Composer of "HIGHGATE" in The Church Hymnary

William Robertson

1686 - 1745 Person Name: Rev. William Robertson ( —1743) Author of "Let little Children come to Me" in Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes Robertson, William, was the son of David Robertson of Brunton in Fife. After finishing his University course he was licensed to preach in 1711. He is said to have been assistant to the minister of the Presbyterian Church of London Wall, London, before his settlement, in 1714, as parish minister of Borthwick, Midlothian. In 1733 he was appointed minister of Lady Yesters, Edinburgh, and in 1736 of Old Greyfriars, and died at Edinburgh, Nov. 16, 1745. He was in 1742 appointed a member of the Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which compiled the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745, and is said to have contributed 3 paraphrases which, in the 1781 collection, are numbered 25, "How few receive with cordial faith" (p. 536, ii.), 42, "Let not your hearts with anxious thoughts" (p. 672, i.), and 43 "You now must hear my voice no more.” [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)