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Author of "I Sought the Lord, and Afterward I Knew" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Jean Ingelow

1820 - 1897 Author of "I Sought the Lord" in Hymns to the Living God Ingelow, Jean, daughter of W. Ingelow, Boston, Lincolnshire, was born in 1820. Her writings are well and favourably known. Her poetical pieces have been published as Poems, 1863, and A Story of Doom and other Poems, 1867. From her Poems, 1863, the cento "And didst Thou love the race that loved not Thee" (Love of Christ in the Congregational Church Hymnal 1887, is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =============== Born: March 17, 1820, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Died: July 20, 1897, Kensington, London, England. Buried: Brompton Cemetery, London, England. A well known 19th Century poet, Ingelow’s works include: A Rhyming Chronical of Incidents and Feelings, 1850 Poems, 1863 A Story of Doom and Other Poems, 1867 Mopsa the Fairy One of her more popular poems was "O Fair Dove, O Fond Dove." --www.hymntime.com/tch

G. W. Chadwick

1854 - 1931 Person Name: George W. Chadwick Composer of "PEACE" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Educator, administrator, organist, conductor, and principal composer of the Second New England School, whose members also included John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, and Amy Marcy Beach, George W. Chadwick taught several generations of American musicians at the New England Conservatory, and came to be regarded as the standard bearer of the Yankee academic tradition in music. Born in Lowell, MA. on November 13, 1854, Chadwick studied organ with his older brother and used his earnings as an organist to finance the musical studies which his father opposed. After leaving high school in 1872, he clerked for a brief time in his father's insurance office while studying with Dudley Buck and Eugene Thayer at the New England Conservatory. Upon graduation in 1876 he accepted an appointment as a music instructor at Mt. Olivet College in Michigan and founded the Music Teachers National Association. In 1877 Chadwick embarked on the pilgrimage which was considered de rigeur for American musicians; he sailed for Germany to study in Leipzig and Munich with such famous pedagogues as Rheinberger. His RIP VAN WINKLE OVERTURE, composed abroad to an American theme, won him some early notice, and before returning to the States in 1880, he tasted a bit of the bohemian life by tramping the Continent with a group of avant garde artists and writers called the Duvenek Boys. New England Conservatory From 1877 to his appointment to the Directorship of the New England Conservatory in 1897, Chadwick built his career as a Boston teacher, organist, and composer. Among his celebrated pupils were Horatio Parker, who, in turn taught Charles Ives, Daniel Gregory Mason, and Frederick Shepherd Converse. Chadwick's compositional style has been dubbed "Boston Classicism." Though there is a distinct academic foundation to his music, his works also reflect a certain Yankee bluntness and retain the hints of his colorful vagabond days. In his mature period to which his powerful verismo opera, THE PADRONE, and his lyric drama, JUDITH, belong, Chadwick's music makes significant strides in freeing the American idiom from the German conservatory style. Sensitive, also, to indigenous influences, Chadwick made use of African-American song, Anglo-American psalmody, and folk idioms in his symphonic compositions. His 137 songs for solo voice and piano reflect a deep-seated interest in contemporary poetry in a Romantic vein. Among his best known settings are two cycles by Boston poet Arlo Bates: A FLOWER CYCLE and TOLD IN THE GATE. --www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/chadwick.html

William Lindsay Alexander

1808 - 1884 Person Name: William Alexander Author of "Vision From The Apocalypse" in The Cyber Hymnal Alexander, William Lindsay , DD. LL.D., of Pinkieburn, Musselburgh, son of William Alexander, Esq., Leith, born in the vicinity of Leith, August 24, 1808. After studying at the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrew's, he became, in 1828, Classical Tutor in what is now The Lancashire College. After studying for some time at Halle, he, in 1835, became minister of North College St. Congregational Church, Edinburgh, removing with his congregation in 1861 to a new church in George IV. Bridge, called the Augustine Church, and retired from the pastoral charge of the same in 1877. He died at Pinkieburn, Dec. 20, 1884. He was, from 1854 to 1881, Professor in the Scottish Congregational Hall. In 1846 he received the degree of D.D. from the University of St. Andrew's, and in 1884 that of LL.D., from Edinburgh. He became a member of the O. T. Revision Company in 1870. He wrote and edited many valuable theological works. His Selection of Hymns known as the Augustine Hymn Book, in which his original hymns and translations appeared, was first published in 1849. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =========================== Alexander, W. L., p. 39, ii. As Dr. Alexander's hymns are all signed in his Augustine Hymn Book, they are not enumerated here. Died Dec. 20, 1884. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

William Arthur Dunkerley

1852 - 1941 Person Name: William A. Dunkerley Author of "The Two Views" in The Cyber Hymnal William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 - 23 January 1941) was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church from the 1880s, and he then moved to Worthing in Sussex in 1922, where he became the town's mayor. He wrote under his own name, and also as John Oxenham

Sarah Williams

1838 - 1868 Author of "Because I Knew Not When My Life Was Good" in The Hymnbook Williams, Sarah, only child of Robert Williams, born in London c. 1838, and died April 25, 1868. She contributed to the periodicals and published Rainbows in Springtide, 1866, and Twilight Hours, 1868. The hymn “Because I knew not when my life was good" (Repentanc), in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, is from her Twilight Hours, 1868, p. 150, st. iv., v., vii. being omitted. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)