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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Author of "Behold a Broken World" in Moravian Book of Worship Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church posi­tions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

William Jones

1726 - 1800 Composer of "ST. STEPHEN" in Moravian Book of Worship Born: Ju­ly 30, 1726, Lo­wick, North­amp­ton­shire, Eng­land. Died: Jan­u­ary 6, 1800, Hol­ling­bourne, Kent, Eng­land. Pseudonym: Jones of Nay­land. Jones was ed­u­cat­ed at Char­ter­house and Un­i­ver­si­ty Coll­ege, Ox­ford. He be­came Vi­car of Beth­ers­den, Kent (1764); Pluck­ley, Kent; and Pas­ton, North­amp­ton­shire; per­pe­tu­al Cur­ate of Nay­land, Suf­folk (1777); and Rec­tor of Hol­ling­bourne, Kent (1798). He be­came a Fel­low of the Roy­al So­ci­e­ty in 1775. His works in­clude: The Ca­tho­lic Doc­trine of the Trin­i­ty, 1756 Fairchild Dis­cours­es, 1775 Physiological Dis­qui­si­tions, 1781 A Treatise on the Art of Mu­sic, 1784 Church Piec­es for the Or­gan with Four An­thems in Score, 1789 Jones was a de­scend­ant of the Col. J. Jones, who was one of the sig­na­tor­ies to the death war­rant of King Charles I of Eng­land. He used to reg­u­lar­ly ob­serve Jan­u­a­ry 30 as a day of fast­ing and hu­mil­i­a­tion for his an­ces­tor’s sin. Music: ST. STEPHEN --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Max Miller

1927 - 2013 Composer of "MARSH CHAPEL" in The United Methodist Hymnal

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb Composer (descant) of "MARSH CHAPEL" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II

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