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Edwin Drewett

1850 - 1924 Hymnal Number: 321 Composer of "ELMHURST" in The Chapel Hymnal Born: 1850, London, England. Died: April 6, 1924, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Drewett studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Charles Steggall, and served as organist at Harecourt Congregational Chapel, London; the German Lutheran Church, Dalston (1893-1905); and the German Embassy Church, Brompton (1905-14); and the Church of King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells (1907-24). --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Frederick G. Baker

1840 - 1908 Hymnal Number: 70 Composer of "ST. SAVIOUR" in The Chapel Hymnal Frederick George Baker was born in Shorwell, Isle of Wight on May 19, 1840. Served at St. Saviour’s Church, Shanklin, for almost 30 years. He died in Shaklin, Isle of Wight on March 10, 1908. NN

Nathaniel D. Gould

1781 - 1864 Hymnal Number: 357 Composer of "WOODLAND" in The Chapel Hymnal Nathaniel Duren Gould 1781-1864. Born in Bedford, MA, into the Duren family, He was musically inclined and attended a singing school when young. He was also a master and teacher of penmanship and engraving. As a conservative music reformer he opened a singing school in 1799. He taught mostly Psalmody singing. He married Sally Andrews Prichard in 1801, and they had eight children: Nathaniel, Augustus, Charles, Mary Ann, (2 unnamed infants that died), Elizabeth and Sarah. He also formed the New Ipswitch military band in 1804 He was conductor of the Middlesex MA Musical Society in 1805. He took the name Gould in 1806 to qualify for an inheritance from an uncle. He taught music in NH and MA in some 115 singing schools over 50+ years and had more than 50,000 students. He also compiled and published music. He authored a number of books, one being “History of church music in America” (1853) about early singing schools. He noted traits and temperaments of many singers, some not really performing for the glory of God. He died in Boston, MA. John Perry

Darius E. Jones

1815 - 1881 Hymnal Number: 156 Composer of "STOCKWELL" in The Chapel Hymnal

John M. Wigner

1844 - 1911 Hymnal Number: 212 Author of "Come to the Saviour now" in The Chapel Hymnal Wigner, John Murch, second son of J. T. Wigner, was born at Lynn, June 19, 1844. He was educated at the Grammar School of Lynn, and afterwards graduated B.A. and B.SC. in the London University. Mr. J. M. Wigner now resides near London, and has been for many years in the India Home Civil Service. He is connected with his father's church, and has done much to promote the spiritual welfare of the young. He is the author of several hymns, three of which are in the Baptist Psalms and Hymns for School and Home, 1882;— 1. "Come to the Saviour now!" Invitation. 2. "Lost one! wandering on in sadness." Return to God. 3. "Lo, a loving Friend is waiting." The Call of Jesus. The first of these is in the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1880, and is dated 1871. [Rev. W.R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William W. Gilchrist

1846 - 1916 Person Name: Wm. W. Gilchrist Hymnal Number: 47 Arranger of "SCHUBERT" in The Chapel Hymnal Born: January 8, 1846, Jersey City, New Jersey. Died: December 20, 1916, Easton, Pennsylvania. Buried: Saint Thomas’ Episcopal Church, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Gilchrist’s family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when William was nine years old. He attended school there until the outbreak of the American civil war, when his father’s business failed and William had to seek other work. Having a good voice, he sang in choirs and choruses, first as a soprano, and later a smooth, flexible baritone. He began singing some of the principal parts in the Handel and Haydn Society, where his first real musical life began. At age 19, Gilchrist began studying organ and voice with Professor H. A. Clarke, gradually concentrating on theory. At age 25, he spent a year in Cincinnati, Ohio, as organist and teacher, returning to Philadelphia to take post of choir master at St. Clement’s Protestant Episcopal Church. He later became conductor of the Mendelssohn Club, Tuesday Club of Wilmington, and Philadelphia Symphony Society. Gilchrist was best known as a composer. His first success was in 1878, winning two prizes from the Abt Society of Philadelphia for best choruses for male voices. In 1881, he won three similar prizes from the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York. In 1884, he took a $1,000 prize from the Cincinnati Festival Association; the judges included Saint-Saëns, Reinecke, and Theodore Thomas. This work was an elaborate setting of the Forty-Sixth Psalm, and was enthusiastically received. Gilchrist afterwards modified it and brought it out at the Philadelphia Festival in 1885. Gilchrist also served as editor of the 1895 Presbyterian hymnal, as musical editor of The Magnificat in 1910, and wrote symphonies, chamber and choral music. His works include: An Easter Idyll Psalm 46 (New York: 1882) One Hundred and Third Psalm Ninetieth Psalm Fifth Psalm Prayer and Praise De Profundis The Rose (New York: 1887) Ode to the Sun A Christmas Idyll (Boston, Massachusetts: 1898) The Lamb of God (New York: 1909) www.hymntime.com/tch/

W. Arnold

1768 - 1832 Person Name: William Arnold Hymnal Number: 330a Composer of "ALEXANDRIA" in The Chapel Hymnal

Robert Simpson

1790 - 1832 Hymnal Number: 264 Composer of "BALERMA" in The Chapel Hymnal Robert Simpson, of Scotland; b. 1790; d. 1832 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

John Wilkes

1782 - 1882 Person Name: John B. Wilkes Hymnal Number: 40 Composer of "MONKLAND" in The Chapel Hymnal John Wilkes (b. England, date unknown; d. England, 1882) simplified the tune MONKLAND and introduced it to Henry W. Baker (PHH 342), who published it in the English Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) to his own harvest-theme text, "Praise, O Praise Our God and King." Wilkes named the tune after the village where he was organist and Baker was vicar–Monkland–located near Leominster in Herefordshire, England. Wilkes died around 1882; he should not be confused with the better-known John Bernard Wilkes (1785-1869). --Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1998

U. C. Burnap

1834 - 1900 Person Name: Uzziah C. Burnap Hymnal Number: 261 Composer of "HOLY GUIDE" in The Chapel Hymnal Burnap ran a dry goods business in Brooklyn, though he graduated from the University of Paris with a music degree, and for 37 years played the organ at the Reformed Church in Brooklyn Heights. He was a prolific composer, and helped edit the following: Hymns of the Church, 1869 Hymns of Prayer and Praise, 1871 Hymns and Songs of Praise, 1874 --The Cyber Hymnal™ There is uncertainty about his middle name. Reynolds and the Library of Congress say it was Christopher. A contemporary obituary relied on by "The Cyber Hymnal™" says it was Cicero. It appears that there was another Uzziah C[icero] Burnap who lived (per LOC) 1794-1854.