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Anonymous

Author of "God Is Known Among His People" 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.

William H. Willimon

Person Name: William H. Willimon Author of "Lord, You Call Us to Your Service" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

Lorenzo Álvarez

1897 - 1969 Translator (ex. 3, 4) of "Canta, canta, alma mía" in El Himnario

Joëlle Gouel

Person Name: Joëlle Gouel Translator of "Nos Coeurs Chantent" in Les Chants du Pèlerin

Robin Sheldon

b. 1932 Person Name: Robin Sheldon (born 1932) Composer (descant) of "PRAISE, MY SOUL" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Iona Community

Person Name: The Iona Community Author of "Praise with Joy the World's Creator" in Voices United Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian group of men and women based on the small island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. The community began in 1938 when the Rev. George MacLeod of the Church of Scotland began a ministry among the unemployed poor who had been neglected by the church. He took a handful of men to the island to rebuild the ruins of a thousand-year-old abbey church. That rebuilding became a metaphor for the rebuilding of the common life, a return to the belief that daily activity is the stuff of godly service – work, and worship. The Community has since grown to include a group of members, associates, and friends all over the United Kingdom and many other countries. In addition to many conferences that attract people to Iona from around the world, the Community is known for its publishing of new songs and prayers for worship, both developed in community and gathered from around the world. For more information on the Iona Community, check their website: www.iona.org.uk. John Bell is probably the community’s most well-known member, having composed and arranged much of the community’s music. Sing! A New Creation

George Hugh Bourne

1840 - 1925 Person Name: George H. Bourne Author of "Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor" in Hymns to the Living God Bourne, George Hugh, D.C.L., son of Rev. R. B. Bourne, born at St. Paul's Cray, Kent, 8th Nov. 1840, and educated at Eton, and O. C. C, Oxford, graduating B.A., 1863; B.C.L., 1866; and D.C.L. 1871. Taking Holy Orders in 1863, he became Curate of Sandford-on-Thames, 1863. He was afterwards Head Master of Chardstock College, and is now (1886) Warden of the same school, which has been transferred to St. Edmund's, Salisbury. Dr. Bourne has written the following hymns:— 1. Scarce discerning aught before us. General, Written in Switzerland in 1861, and published in Lyra Messianica, 1864, p. 17, in 10 stanzas of 4 lines, and repeated in the Appendix to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Psalms & Hymns, 1869, in an abbreviated form. 2. 0 Christ, the king of human life. Holy Matrimony. A hymn on Holy Matrimony, written in 1867 for the marriage of Dr. A. B. Webb, Bishop of Bloemfontein, and included in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Appendix to the Psalms & Hymns, 1869, and thence into Church Hymns, 1871. 3. Of the wondrous Body, 0 my tongue be telling. A translation of "Pange lingua gloriosi corporis," q.v., contributed to Lyra Eucharistica, 2nd edition, 1864. Dr. Bourne has also written seven Post-Communion hymns for use in the Chapel of St. Edmund's College, Salisbury. These hymns have not been published. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Bourne, George H, p. 164, ii. From his Post Communion Hymns, privately printed in 1874 (see p. 165, i., 3), the hymns "O Christ, our God, 'Who with Thine own hast been" (Holy Communion), and "Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour" (Holy Communion), are taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Craig Sellar Lang

1891 - 1971 Person Name: Craig Sellar Lang, 1891-1971 Composer (desc.) of "LAUDA ANIMA" in The Hymnal 1982 Craig S. Lang (b. Hastings, New Zealand, 1891; d. London, England, 1971), was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, England, and earned his D.Mus. at the Royal College of Music in London. Throughout his life he was an organist and a music educator as well as a composer of organ, piano, and choral works. Lang was also music editor of The Public School Hymn Book (1949). He named many of his hymn tunes after Cornish villages. Bert Polman

Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Author of "When Our Confidence Is Shaken" in Chalice Hymnal The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.