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William L. Ward

Hymnal Number: 154 Composer of "JANET" in Gloria

1830 - 1903 Person Name: Rev. Brooke Herford Hymnal Number: 158 Author of "Lead us, heav'nly Father" in Gloria Born: 1830, Altrincham, Manchester, England, Died: December 21, 1903, Hampstead, Middlesex, England. Buried: Hale, Cheshire, England. Son of John and Sarah Herford, Brooke received his early education in Manchester, at the school of John Relly Beard. At age 14, he left school and went into his father’s counting house for four years. As he became engaged with the local Sunday School, and at the Mosley Street Mission School, he eventually decided upon the ministry as a career. At age 18, he enrolled at Manchester New College (now at Oxford, but then at Manchester). At age 21, he began preaching at Todmorden, Yorkshire and, as his college would not support him, he withdrew from school to be a full time minister. After five years at Todmorden, his moved to the Upper Chapel, Sheffield, and nine years later, to Strangeways Free Church in Manchester. He spent 11 years there, also tutoring at the Home Missionary College. He then moved to America to become pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Illinois (1874-91). He also served as Corresponding Secretary (1878-79) and president (1880-81) of the Chicago Literary Club; pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1882-92); and on the faculty of Harvard University, before returning to England in 1893. Herford’s works include: A Protestant Poor Friar: The Life-Story of Travers Madge A The Story of Religion in England A Sermons of Courage and Cheer A The Small End of Great Problems Anchors of the Soul --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Alice Williams Brotherton

1838 - 1930 Person Name: Alice W. Brotherton Hymnal Number: 265 Author of "Consider the lilies" in Gloria Brotherton, Alice, née Williams, born at Cambridge, Ind., and married in 1876 to William E. Brotherton of Cincinnati. Has published Beyond the Veil, Chicago, 1886, and Sailing of King Olaf, 1887. Author of "Consider the lilies, How stately they grow" (Providence), in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Irene Young

Hymnal Number: 129 Author of "O would that the words might be given to me" in Gloria

Cara B. Evans

1839 - 1925 Hymnal Number: 240 Author of "The love of Christ constraineth" in Gloria Born: December 27, 1839, Ontario, Canada. Cara’s husband was Anglican cleric C. Henry James Evans. In 1881, they were living in Ste. Jerusalem, Québec. In 1901, they were living in St. Laurent, a suburb of Montréal. --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ========================== Evans, Cara (Berford). (1840--January 27, 1925, New York City). Anglican. Surviving records reveal little about her life until her arrival, in middle age, at Montreal with her husband John, a canon of the cathedral there. She about recruiting, and raising money to support, missionaries, especially for northwestern Canada; to this end she dited the Montreal section of the "Letter Leaflet," which aimed at sharing missionaries' letters with the ladies in southern Canada who were paying for them. Here her hymn "The love of Christ constraineth" appeared in 1897; its favour with her readership led to its inclusion in the 1908 and 1938 Book of Common Praise. She also edited for a time the magazine into which the "Letter Leaflet" grew, Living Message. Widowed in 1903, she eventually made her home with her daughter in New York. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

S. C. Hamerton

1833 - 1872 Person Name: Rev. Samuel C. Hamerton Hymnal Number: 54 Author of "Waken, Christian children" in Gloria Hamerton, Samuel Collingwood, born in 1833, educated at University College, Oxford (B.A. 1856), Incumbent of St. Paul's, Warwick, from 1866, and died there Jan. 6, 1872. His hymn "Waken, Christian children" (Christmas Carol), is in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872; the Hymnal Companion, 1890, and others. It appeared as a Carol published by Masters, in 1861. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Abel Gerald Wilson Blunt

1827 - 1902 Person Name: Rev. Abel G. W. Blunt Hymnal Number: 262 Author of "Here, Lord, we offer thee all that is fairest" in Gloria Blunt, Abel Gerald Wilson, M.A., some time Travelling Fellow of Cambridge University, was born in 1827, and graduated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, B.A., 1850; M.A., 1860. Taking Holy Orders in 1851, he was from 1856 to 1860 Incumbent of Crew Green, Cheshire. In 1860 he was preferred to the Rectory of St. Luke's, Chelsea. Mr. Blunt's hymns, written for festival occasions at St. Luke's, are:— 1. Evening comes, may we, 0 Lord. Evening. 2. From meadows bright with blossom. Flower Services. This is dated June, 1882. 3. Here, Lord, we offer Thee all that is fairest. Flower Services. This is the best known and most popular of Mr. Blunt's hymns. From its composition in 1879, when it was first sung at the Flower Service at St. Luke's, it has attracted attention until it is deemed essential to the completeness of most collections of importance. 4. Here, on this our festal day. St. Luke. Written in 1882 for St. Luke's, Chelsea. All these hymns are printed in a small Supplement in use at St. Luke's. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)