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Frances Annette (Coan) Percy

1843 - 1918 Person Name: F. A. Percy Hymnal Number: a68 Author of "O Father, hear my morning prayer" in In Excelsis

b. 1840 Person Name: J. E. Livock Hymnal Number: a67 Author of "My soul, awake! thy rest forsake" in In Excelsis Livock, Jane Elizabeth, was born at Norwich in 1840. Her hymn "My soul awake! Thy rest forsake" (Morning) was written for a prize competition in 1880, first published in the Sunday School Chronicle, and then given in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Caroline E. May

1808 - 1873 Person Name: Mrs. C. E. May Hymnal Number: a396 Author of "O Saviour, where shall guilty man" in In Excelsis May, Catherine Elizabeth, née Martin, p. 1584, i., under "O Saviour," &c. She was the only daughter of Sir Henry William Martin, Bt, and was b. at Lockinge Park, near Wantage, Feb. 19, 1808; m. 1837 to the Rev. George May, who was from 1843 to 1861 Vicar of Lyddington, Wilts; died at Totland, Isle of Wight, Sep. 12, 1873. The first verse of her hymn, "O Saviour, where shall guilty man," appeared in Dr. Maurice's Choral Harmony, 1858, set to a tune called "Lyddington." which was composed by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, and is dated 1856. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)