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Shelly Hamilton

b. 1954 Arranger (Last st.) of "AZMON" in Rejoice Hymns

1665 - 1746 Person Name: Rev. John Chetham (1685-176) Composer of "MARLOW" in Hymns of the Ages Baptized: February 4, 1665, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England. Buried: 1746, Skipton, Yorkshire, England. After attending Deckerfield School, then taking orders, Chetham became Curate of Skipton, North Yorkshire. His collection A Book of Psalmody was first published in 1718, and had at least eleven editions, through 1787. Music: BARRAGH MARLOW WIRKSWORTH --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Joseph Funk

1778 - 1862 Person Name: Joseph Funk, 1788-1862 Composer of "LINGHAM" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Joseph Funk USA 1778-1862. Born at Berks County, PA, grandson of the first Mennonite bishop in America. He lived most of his life in Rockingham County, VA. He was a farmer, a composer, publisher, and traveling singing teacher, covering hundreds of miles on horseback to teaching appointments. He married Elizabeth Rhodes, and they had five children: Jonathan, Henry, Elizabeth, Susan, and Barbara.. After her death, he married Rachel Britton in 1814, and they raised nine children: Mary, Joseph, David, Samuel. Hannah, John, Timothy, Solomon, and Benjamin. His advocacy for the use of musical instruments in church worship was in contention with the Mennonite position that musical instruments were not fit for the church. His sons also taught music and sang with instruments, a very progressive posture at the time. He collected songbooks and revised and updated hymn tunes. He invented a 4-shape-note music system in 1851 for the “Harmonia Sacra”, and later a 7-shape notation tunebook. At age 70 he established the first Mennonite printing business in America. His published works include: “A compilation of genuine church music” (1832) – later changed to “Harmonia Sacra”, “The confession of faith” (1837), “A collection of Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs” (1847), “The reviewer reviewed” (1857), “The southern musical advocate & singer's friend” (a monthly periodical 1859-61). He died at Singers Glen, VA. John Perry

Robert Hawkey Moreton

1844 - 1917 Person Name: Robert Hawkey Moreton, 1844-1917 Translator (Portuguese) of "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Mil voces para celebrar)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Robert Hawkey Moreton was born in Argentina (1844-1917) and was instrumental in the founding of the Methodist Church (Mirante Chapel) in Oporto, Portugal.

María Eugenia Cornou

b. 1969 Person Name: María Eugenia Cornou, b. 1969 Translator (Spanish, st. 6) of "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Mil voces para celebrar)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Samuel Webbe

1770 - 1843 Person Name: S. Webbe (the younger), 1770-1843 Adapter of "RICHMOND" in The Book of Common Praise Samuel Webbe, Jr. (1770-1843), adapted the tune RICHMOND. He was organist at Paradise Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool (1798). Later he succeeded his father as organist at the Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London (1817), and then St. Nicholas’ Church and St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

W. Wheal

1690 - 1727 Person Name: William Weale, d.1727 Composer of "BEDFORD" in The Book of Praise William Wheal (Weale) c. 1690-1727 was the organist at St. Paul's, Bedford. He graduated with a Bachelor's in Music from Cambridge in 1719. The tune BEDFORD appeared in the "Psalm Singer's Magazine" of 1729, but it was probably first published earlier. It appears in The Divine Musick Scholars Guide by Francis Timbrell, which has an unknown date of publication, but copies found in personal libraries have dates beginning in 1723. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Musical Times" Vol. 49, #781 (Mar. 1, 1908) pp. 165-169

Henry Harington

1727 - 1816 Person Name: H. Harrington Composer of "LANSDOWNE" in Mirfield Mission Hymn Book Born: September 29, 1727, Kelston, Somerset, England. Died: January 15, 1816, Bath, Somerset, England. Buried: Kelston, Somerset, England. Harington, a physician, was mayor of Bath, England, in 1793, and founded the Harmonic Society there. "A tablet was erected to his memory in Bath Abbey, on which is a curious mathematical figure highly suggestive of a proposition in Euclid, but which is really a design showing the ratios of the vibration numbers in the various intervals of the major scale." Lightwood, p. 358 --www.hymntime.com/tch

John Cole

1774 - 1855 Composer of "GENEVA" in The Old Story in Song John Cole, author of "Geneva," was born in Tewksbury, Eng., 1774, and came to the United States in his boyhood (1785). Baltimore, Md. became his American home, and he was educated there. Early in life he became a musician and music publisher. At least twleve of his principle song collections from 1800 to 1832 are mentioned by Mr. Hubert P. Main, most of them sacred and containing many of his own tunes. He continued to compose music till his death, Aug. 17, 1855. Mr. Cole was leader of the regimental band known as "The Independent Blues," which played in the War of 1812, and was present at the "North Point" fight, and other battles. The story of hymns and tunes; by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth, New York: The American Track Society, 1906