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John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Person Name: J. B. Dykes Composer of "ST. AGNES" in Hymns of Worship and Service As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
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John Bacchus Dykes
Thomas Turton
1780 - 1864 Composer of "ST. ETHELDREDA" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Turton, Thomas; b. 25 Feb. 1780 Yorkshire, England; d. 7 Jan. 1864 London; clergyman and scholar
Thomas Turton
Theodore C. Pease
1853 - 1893 Author of "Dear Lord, who once upon the lake" in Hymns of Worship and Service Pease, Theodora Claudius, born at Poughkeepsie, K.Y., 1853; educated at Harvard, and Andover Theo. Seminary, graduating in 1880; ordained to the Congregational ministry 1884; Bartlett Prof, of Sacred Rhetoric and Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1893,and died the same year. A small memorial vol. containing an essay on the Christian Ministry, Lectures on Homiletics, &c, with Poems and Hymns, was published by Houghton & Mifflin 1894. Of his hymns the following were included in The Pilgrim Hymnal, N.Y., 1904:—
1. Dear Lord, Who once upon the lake. [Peace.] 1890.
2. How blest Thy first disciples, Lord. [Holy Communion.] 1890.
3. Jesus is risen! lift up your glad voices. [Easter.] 1891.
4. Not long on Hermon's holy height. [Visions and Duty.] 1891.
5. O Lord of life, once laid in Joseph's tomb. [Easter.] 1893.
These dates are those of the writing of the hymns. [M. C. Hazard, Ph. D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Theodore C. Pease
