Person Results

Frances Chesterton

Hymnal Number: 426 Author of "How far is it to Bethlehem?" in Songs of Praise

Heathcote D. Statham

Hymnal Number: 117 Composer of "OLDWOOD" in Songs of Praise

Arthur Hugh Clough

1819 - 1861 Person Name: Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-61 Hymnal Number: 352a Author of "Say not the struggle nought availeth" in Songs of Praise

Lionel Muirhead

1845 - 1925 Person Name: L. B. C. L. Muirhead, 1845-1925 Hymnal Number: 131 Author of "The Church of God a kingdom is" in Songs of Praise

1715 - 1797 Person Name: J. F. Doles, 1715-97 Hymnal Number: 4 Composer of "DA CHRISTUS GEBOREN WAR" in Songs of Praise Born: April 23, 1715, Steinbach-Hallenberg, Thuringia. Died: February 8, 1797, Leipzig, Germany. Doles is remembered as a composer of chamber and sacred music. While a student at the University of Leipzig, he directed the city’s Grosses Konzert (later known as the Gewandhaus Orchestra). He served as assistant organist at the Gymnasium in Schmalkalden, and cantor in Freiberg (1744) and at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig (1755). --www.hymntime.com/tch

Julia C. R. Dorr

1825 - 1913 Person Name: Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr (1825-1913) Hymnal Number: 160 Author of "How can I cease to pray for thee? Somewhere" in Songs of Praise Born: February 13, 1825, Charleston, South Carolina. Died: January 18, 1913, Rutland, Vermont, at her home, The Maples. Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Vermont. Pseudonym: Caroline Thomas. Daughter of William Young Ripley, Julia lost her mother as a child. In 1830 her father took her to Vermont, where she was educated. She began writing poetry at an early age, but did not publish anything until two years after her 1847 marriage to Seneca M. Dorr, a prominent New York lawyer and banker. After her marriage, Julia contributed to magazines, mainly poetry, with an occasional short story. She counted among her friends writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Julia Ward Howe, Richard Watson Gilder, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. She carried on a correspondence with Holmes for over 20 years. Dorr’s works include: Farmingdale, 1854 A Cathedral Pilgrimage Bermuda. An Idyl of the Summer Islands Bride and Bridegroom. A Series of Letters to a Young Married Couple Friar Anselmo and Other Poems The Legend of the Babouhka Lanmere Sybil Huntington Expiation The Fallow Field --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Walt Whitman

1819 - 1892 Person Name: Walt Whitman (cento), 1819-92 Hymnal Number: 173 Author of "All the past we leave behind" in Songs of Praise Walt Whitman; also known as Walter Whitman; b. May 31, 1819, West Hills, Long Island, N.Y., d. Mar. 26, 1892, Camden, N.J.; American poet and essayist

Ernest Bullock

Hymnal Number: 313 Composer of "BERRY DOWN" in Songs of Praise

Robert Herrick

1591 - 1674 Person Name: Robert Herrick, 1591-1674 Hymnal Number: 412 Author of "In this world, the Isle of Dreams" in Songs of Praise Herrick, Robert, son of Nicholas Herrick, goldsmith in Cheapside, London, was born in London in 1591, and educated at St. John's College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Taking Holy Orders in 1629, he was presented to the living of Dean-Prior, Devon. During Cromwell's Government he was ejected, but was reinstated at the Restoration. He died in 1674. His Noble Numbers was published in 1647; and his Hesperides, or the Works bothe Humane and Divine, of Robert Herrick, in 1648. Various editions have followed, including that by Dr. Grosart, in 3 vols., in his Early English Poets, 1869. A Selection, with Memoir by Dr. Nott, was also published at Bristol, 1810; and another Selection, by F. T. Palgrave, in the Golden Treasury Series, 1877. Herrick's Hesperides is also one of the Universal Library Series, edited by H. Morley, 1884. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology