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Eric Hunt

1903 - 1958 Person Name: J. Eric Hunt Hymnal Number: C171 Composer of "[Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts]" in The Book of Common Praise

1843 - 1890 Person Name: Isabel S. Stevenson Hymnal Number: 303a Author of "Holy Father, in thy mercy" in The Book of Common Praise Born: July 1843, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Died: April 1890, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Daughter of an army officer in Cheltenham, Isabella was an invalid most of her life. ===================== Stephenson, Isabella S. , is the author of "Holy Father! in Thy mercy" (For Absent Friends), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

R. Cecil

1748 - 1810 Person Name: Rev. R. Cecil Hymnal Number: 378b Composer of "ST. JOHN" in The Book of Common Praise Cecil, Richard, M.A., born in London, Nov. 8, 1748, and educated at Queen's Coll., Oxford. Ordained deacon in 1776, and priest in 1777. He became the Vicar of two churches near Lewes shortly after; chaplain of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780; and Vicar of Chobham and Bisley, 1800. He died in 1810. His poem:— Cease here longer to detain me. Desiring Heaven. In 9 stanzas of 4 lines, is supposed to be addressed by a dying infant to his mother. It was written for his wife on the death of a child “only one month old, being removed at daybreak, whose countenance at the time of departure was most heavenly." It was first published in Mrs. Cecil's Memoir of him, prefixed to his Remains, 1811, and is headed “Let me go, for the day breaketh." In the American hymn-books it is usually abbreviated, as in the Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. [William T. Brooke] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John E. Roe

1838 - 1871 Person Name: J. E. Roe Hymnal Number: 99b Composer of "ONWARD" in The Book of Common Praise

John Downing Farrer

1829 - 1919 Person Name: J. Downing Farrer Hymnal Number: 179b Composer of "NEW CALABAR" in The Book of Common Praise Born: Circa February 1829, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Died: Circa February 1919, Christchurch District, Hampshire, England. Farrer and his wife were living in Lowestoft as of 1881, and Farrer was in Bournemouth in 1901. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Heinrich S. Oswald

1751 - 1834 Person Name: H. S. Oswald Hymnal Number: 535 Author of "O let him whose sorrow" in The Book of Common Praise Oswald, Heinrich Siegmund, son of Johann Heinrich Oswald or Osswald, of Nimmersatt, near Liegnitz, in Silesia, was born at Nimmersatt, June 30, 1751. After passing through the school at Schmiedeberg he was for seven years clerk in a public office at Breslau. In 1773 he became Secretary to the Landrath von Prittwitz at Glatz, with whom he remained two years, and was thereafter in business at Hamburg and at Breslau. Through J. D. Hermes, Oberconsistorialrath at Potsdam, whose daughter he married, he became acquainted with King Friedrich Wilhelm II. of Prussia, and in 1791 was appointed reader to the king. He accordingly removed to Potsdam, and was in 1791 appointed also Geheimrath. After the king's death, on Nov. 16, 1797, Oswald received a pension, and retired first to Hirschberg, and then to Breslau, where he died Sept. 8, 1834. (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie xxiv. 528; Miller's Singers & Songs, 1869, p. 303; extracts from the Breslauer Zeitung, Sept. 12, 1834, and the Schlesische Provinzialblätter, 1835, p. 289, kindly communicated by Dr. Markgraf of the Breslau Stadt Bibliothek, &c.) Oswald's hymns, over 100 in all, appeared principally in his (1) Unterhaltungen für gläubige Seelen, Berlin, 1792. (2) Gedichte und Lieder fürs Herz, Berlin, 1793. (3) Letzten Mittheilungen meiner der Wahrheit und Religion geweihter Muse, Breslau, 1826. (4) Schwanengesänge, Breslau, n.d. (preface Aug. 1827). Three or four of Oswald's hymns have passed into German hymnbooks. One has been translated into English, viz.:— Wem in Leidenstagen. For Mourners. In his Letzte Mittheilungen, 1826, p. 42, in 14 stanza of 4 lines, and entitled "An exhortation to Tranquillity. To the Suffering. Psalm 50, v. 15." Bunsen, in his Versuch, 1833, No. 813 (Allgemeine Gesangbuche, 1846, No. 333), selects st. i.-iii., x., xii.-xir. The singing of this beautiful hymn (in Miss Cox's version) formed an impressive part of the service in the church at Edensor at the funeral of Lord Frederick Cavendish, May 11, 1882. Translated as:— 1. 0! Let him whose sorrow. A very good translation from Bunsen's text, by Miss Cox, in her Sacred Hymns from the German, 1841… included in Alford's Psalms & Hymns, 1844, and others…. Another translation is: "When in thine hours of grief," by Lady E. Fortescue, 1843, p. 71. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Albert Ham

Person Name: Albert Ham, 1858- Hymnal Number: C31 Composer of "[O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord]" in The Book of Common Praise

Hurst William

1849 - 1934 Person Name: W. Hurst Hymnal Number: T51 Composer of "LEICESTER" in The Book of Common Praise Born: 1849, Leicester, England. Died: 1934, Coalville, England. Hurst lived most of his life at Coalville. His compositions were limited to organ music and hymn tunes. --www.hymntime.com/tch

T. A. Lacey

1853 - 1931 Person Name: Rev. Canon T. A. Lacey Hymnal Number: 156 Translator of "Hail! Festal Day, to endless ages known" in The Book of Common Praise Lacey, Thomas Alexander, s. of G. F. Lacey, was b. at Nottingham, Dec. 20, 1853. He entered Balliol Coll., Oxford, as an exhibitioner in 1871 (B.A. 1876, M.A. 1885), was ordained D. 1876, P. 1879, was from 1894 to 1903 Vicar of Madingley near Cambridge, and since then has been Chaplain of the London Diocesan Penitentiary. He was one of the Committee who compiled The English Hymnal, 1906, and contributed to it twelve translations (8, 66, 67, 69, 104, 123, 124, 174, 208, 226, 249, 325), also one unpublished and one previously published original, viz., 1. O Faith of England, taught of old. [Church Defence.] 2. The dying robber raised his aching brow. [Good Friday.] First in the Treasury, Sept. 1905, p. 482, headed "Sursum." Three other translations by him are noted at pp. 989, i. 1139, ii. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Robert M. Millman

1878 - 1945 Person Name: Rev. Robert M. Millman Hymnal Number: 556b Author of "Temple of God's Holy Spirit" in The Book of Common Praise Millman, Robert Malcolm. (Woodstock, Ontario, October 10, 1878--June 3, 1945, St. Catharine's, Ont.). Anglican. University of Toronto, B.A., 1900; M.A., 1904; B.D., 1930. Curate in Toronto, 1904-1909; missionary at Hiroshima and Toyohashi, Japan, 1911-1928; professor at Emmanuel College, Saskatoon, 1928-1944. Canada's pre-1914 drive toward prohibition drew only tepid support from the Anglican Church, to which most brewers and distillers belonged; hence the main compiler of the Book of Common Praise (1908) could say to Millman in October 1906, "If you want to immortalize yourself, write a dignified and useful temperance hymn." Within an hour, Millman had complied by writing and mailing "Temple of God's holy Spirit;" a second, more studied lyric was rejected. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives