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Henry J. Gauntlett
1805 - 1876 Composer of "ST. ALPHEGE" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Henry J. Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, July 9, 1805; d. London, England, February 21, 1876) When he was nine years old, Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) became organist at his father's church in Olney, Buckinghamshire. At his father's insistence he studied law, practicing it until 1844, after which he chose to devote the rest of his life to music. He was an organist in various churches in the London area and became an important figure in the history of British pipe organs. A designer of organs for William Hill's company, Gauntlett extended the organ pedal range and in 1851 took out a patent on electric action for organs. Felix Mendelssohn chose him to play the organ part at the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham, England, in 1846. Gauntlett is said to have composed some ten thousand hymn tunes, most of which have been forgotten. Also a supporter of the use of plainchant in the church, Gauntlett published the Gregorian Hymnal of Matins and Evensong (1844).
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Henry J. Gauntlett
W. J. Dawson
1854 - 1928 Author of "Fast falls the night around us" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Born: November 21, 1854, Towcester, Northampton, England.
Son of William James and Susan Waller Dawson, William was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester, and ordained a Wesleyan minister in 1875. He married Jane Powell of Lowestoft in 1879, and served in various locations until assuming the pastorate of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church, London, in 1892. The previous year, he was one of the English delegates to the Methodist Ecumenical Council in Washington, DC. He liked America so much that he emigrated there in 1905, joining the Presbyterians and first serving at the First Church in Newark, New Jersey. His works include:
A Vision of Souls, 1884
Question and Vision, 1886
A Threshold of Manhood, 1889
Makers of English, 1889
Makers of English Prose, 1899
The Man Christ Jesus, 1901
The Reproach of Christ, 1903
The Quest of the Simple Life, 1903
Makers of English Fiction, 1905
The Empire of Love, 1907
America, and Other Poems, 1912
The American Hymnal, 1913
Robert Shenstone, a novel, 1917
The Father of a Soldier, 1917
The Autobiography of a Mind, 1925
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
W. J. Dawson
