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Erastus C. Benedict
1800 - 1880 Person Name: Erastus C. Benedict, 1800- Hymnal Number: 303 Author of "Jesus, I love Thee evermore" in The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" Benedict, Erastus Cornelius, LL.B., born at Bradford, Connecticut, March 19, 1800, and educated at Williams College, graduating in 1821. In 1824 he was called to the Bar; and from 1850-54 was President of the New York Board of Education. He was also Regent of New York University, and filled other important posts of honour. He died in New York, Oct. 22, 1880. He published several works, including the Hymn of St. Hildebert, N. Y., 1867. In 1868, he contributed “Jesus, I love Thee evermore,” a translation of “O Deus, ego amo Te" (q. v.), and "With terror thou dost strike me now," a translation of "Gravi me terroro pulsas" (q. v.), to Dr. Schaff's Christ in Song. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Erastus C. Benedict
T. H. Gallaudet
1787 - 1851 Person Name: Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, 1787-1851 Hymnal Number: 504 Author of "Jesus, in sickness and in pain" in The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, LL.D., born in Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1787, and graduated at Yale, 1805; was a tutor there from 1808-1810, and proceeded to Andover in 1811, remaining as a student till 1814. Having established an Institute for deaf mutes at Hartford, he visited Europe in its interest in 1814-15. From 1817 to 1830 he was the superintendent of that institution, and from 1838 to 1851 chaplain of the Insane Asylum, Hartford. He died 1851. He published sundry juvenile works. In 1845 he contributed to the Connecticut Congregational Psalms & Hymns, No. 409, "Jesus, in sickness and in pain" (Looking to Jesus in time of trial). It is in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
T. H. Gallaudet
William Robertson
1686 - 1745 Person Name: Rev. William Robertson, -1743 Hymnal Number: 988 Author of "A little child the Saviour came" in The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" Robertson, William, was the son of David Robertson of Brunton in Fife. After finishing his University course he was licensed to preach in 1711. He is said to have been assistant to the minister of the Presbyterian Church of London Wall, London, before his settlement, in 1714, as parish minister of Borthwick, Midlothian. In 1733 he was appointed minister of Lady Yesters, Edinburgh, and in 1736 of Old Greyfriars, and died at Edinburgh, Nov. 16, 1745. He was in 1742 appointed a member of the Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which compiled the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745, and is said to have contributed 3 paraphrases which, in the 1781 collection, are numbered 25, "How few receive with cordial faith" (p. 536, ii.), 42, "Let not your hearts with anxious thoughts" (p. 672, i.), and 43 "You now must hear my voice no more.” [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
William Robertson
Charles Philpot
1759 - 1823 Person Name: Rev. Charles Philpot Hymnal Number: 678 Author of "Again, from calm and sweet repose" in The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" Rev. Charles Philpot (1759-1823)
Charles Philpot of Leicestershire, entered Emmanuel College Cambridge as a pensioner in 1775 (B.A. 1780, M.A. 1787) where he twice won the Seatonian Prize (1790, 1791). Philpot was ordained in 1793 and was Rector of Ripple, Kent (1793-1823) and Vicar of St. Margaret-at-Cliffe (1813-23).
--www.spenserians.cath.vt.edu
Charles Philpot
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