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Alexander Robert Reinagle

1799 - 1877 Person Name: Reinagle Composer of "ST. PETER" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Alexander Robert Reinagle United Kingdom 1799-1877. Born at Brighton, Sussex, England, gf Austrian descent, he came from a family of musicians, studying music with his father (a cellist), then with Raynor Taylor in Edinburgh, Scotland. Reinagle became a well-known organ teacher. He became organist at St Peter’s Church, Oxford (1823-1853). He was also a theatre musician. He wrote Teaching manuals for stringed instruments as well. He also compiled books of hymn tunes, one in 1830: “Psalm tunes for the voice and the pianoforte”, the other in 1840: “A collection of Psalm and hymn tunes”. He also composed waltzes. In 1846 he married Caroline Orger, a pianist, composer, and writer in her own right. No information found regarding children. In the 1860s he was active in Oxford music-making and worked with organist, John Stainer, then organist at Magdalen College. Reinagle also composed a piano sonata and some church music. At retirement he moved to Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England. He died at Kidlington. John Perry

Henry Harington

1727 - 1816 Person Name: Henry Harington, 1727-1816 Composer of "HARINGTON (RETIREMENT)" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Born: September 29, 1727, Kelston, Somerset, England. Died: January 15, 1816, Bath, Somerset, England. Buried: Kelston, Somerset, England. Harington, a physician, was mayor of Bath, England, in 1793, and founded the Harmonic Society there. "A tablet was erected to his memory in Bath Abbey, on which is a curious mathematical figure highly suggestive of a proposition in Euclid, but which is really a design showing the ratios of the vibration numbers in the various intervals of the major scale." Lightwood, p. 358 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Isaac Tucker

Person Name: I. Tucker Composer of "DEVIZES" in The Brethren Hymnal

John Clements

Composer of "[Lo, what a glorious sight appears]" in The Gospel Trumpeter

T. Harrison

Composer of "DOMINION" in The Standard Church Hymnal

George B. Lissant

1823 - 1899 Person Name: G. B. Lissant Composer of "[Lo! what a glorious sight appears]" in Heaven's Echo Born: September 22, 1827. Died: September 14, 1899. Lissant was a chorister at the coronation of Britain’s Queen Victoria. In 1849, he became the first organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Calcutta, India. From about 1872 to 1899, he played the organ at St. Augustine’s Church, Queen’s Gate, London. Sources: Musical Times, October 1, 1899, p. 691 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/s/lissant_gb.htm

Abraham D. Merrell

1796 - 1878 Person Name: Abraham D. Merrell (1796-1878) Composer (attributed to) of "NEW JERUSALEM" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

Charles Edward Pollock

1853 - 1928 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Pollock Composer of "PATMOS" in The Songs of Zion Charles Edward Pollock USA 1853-1928. Born at Newcastle, PA, he moved to Jefferson City, MO, when age 17. He was a cane maker for C W Allen. He also worked 20 years for the MO Pacific Railroad, as a depot clerk and later as Assistant Roadmaster. He was a musician and prolific songwriter, composing 5000+ songs, mostly used in Sunday school settings and church settings. He took little remuneration for his compositions, preferring they be freely used. He produced three songbooks: “Praises”, “Beauty of praise”, and “Waves of melody”. In 1886 he married Martha (Mattie) Jane Harris, and they had three children: Robert, Edward, and a daughter. He died in Merriam, KS. John Perry ================= Pollock, Charles Edward. (Jefferson City, Missouri, 1853-1924). Records of Jefferson City indicate the following: 1897 clerk at depot; residence at 106 Broadway (with Mildred Pollock) 1904-1905 cane maker for C. W. Allen 1908-1909 musician; residence at 106 Broadway (with wife Matty) 1912-1913 residence at St. Louis Road, east city limits --Wilmer Swope, DNAH Archives Note: not to be confused with Charles Edward Pollock (c.1871-1924).

William Tans'ur

1699 - 1783 Person Name: Wm. Tansur Composer of "ST. MARTINS" in New Manual of Praise William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur