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Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1810 - 1876 Person Name: S. S. Wesley, 1810-1876 Composer of "COLCHESTER" in Church Hymns Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him.
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Samuel Sebastian Wesley
John Bishop
1665 - 1737 Person Name: John Bishop, c. 1665 - 1737 Composer of "LEICESTER" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America John Bishop was born in 1665 in Winchester, Hampshire, England He served as lay vicar at King’s College, Cambridge (1687), as the organist (1695-1737) and lay clerk (1697) at Winchester College, and also as tge organist at Winchester Cathedral (1729-37). He died about December 19, 1737 in Winchester. His works include:
A New Set of Psalm Tunes, 1710
A New Set of Psalm Tunes, 1722
A Supplement to the New Psalm-Book, 1725
A New Set of Psalm Tunes, 1730
NN, Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/i/s/bishop_j.htm
John Bishop
Thomas Darling
1816 - 1893 Person Name: Thomas Darling, 1816 - 93 Alterer of "O King of kings, before whose throne" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America Darling, Thomas, M.A., son of George Darling, M.D., born in London, 1816, educated at the Charterhouse, and St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1838, and M.A. 1841. In 1839 he took Holy Orders, and subsequently became Incumbent of Thanington, near Canterbury, and in 1848 Rector of Sts. Michael Royal with St. Martin-Vintry, City of London. Mr. Darling published in 1855 Hymns for the Church of England (Lond. Longmans), arranged according to the Order of the Book of Common Prayer. The last edition (1887) contains 336 hymns, of which about 20 are by the editor.
These hymns, which appeared from time to time in the various editions of his collection, are:—
1. All saints of the Lord. (1855.) Easter. In the 1887 ed. of the Hymns, this reads, "Ye saints of the Lord."
2. As chief among ten thousand see. (1858.) Easter.
3. At early dawn the mountain bound. (1857). For Private use.
4. Behold, I come; and with me bring. (1860.) Sunday next before Advent.
5. Behold, the vineyard of the Lord. (1857.) The Church of Christ.
6. Father of heaven, all nature upholding. (1858.) Trinity.
7. From cleft in Pyrenean rock. (1858.) Healing Water. For Private use.
8. Lift high a festal canticle. (1857.) Christmas.
9. Most gracious Lord, in all distress. (1855.) Common Trouble.
10. The everlasting hills declare. (1858.) Ascension. Written at Bagneres de Luchon in the Pyrenees, 1858.
11. There are who mount with eagle wings. (1858.) St. John the Evangelist.
12. There is a stream whose waters flow. (1858.) Living Water.
13. To God the glory, while we tell. (1860.) Sts. Michael and All Angels.
14. We now with one accord. (1855.) In the 1887 edition of the Hymns, &c, this is given as, "Let all men praise the Lord."
15. What light is this whose silvery gleam. (1855.) Epiphany.
16. Who, when beneath affliction's rod. (1855.) Resignation.
In addition to these Mr. Darling has most successfully adapted hymns from other writers. These include, "Lord Jesus, taken from Thy servants' sight"; "Shepherd of the ransomed flock"; "The winds of God have changed their note" (all of which see); and "By faith, from day to day," and "Where dwells the glorious King?" from "The God of Abraham praise" (q.v.). Mr. Darling's original compositions and adaptations are more richly poetical than is usual with modern hymns. They are at the same time very devotional and of practical value.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Darling, Thomas, p. 230, i. In 1857, Mr. Darling published a small tract as Hymns from the Mountain. Written during a month's Tour in the South of France, in the Summer of the Year MDCCCLVII, Loud., Spottiswoode & Co. The hymns therein are Nos. 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, as on p. 280, i., and "On mountain side, in sheltered dell." (For Private Use.) All these hymns must be dated "1857." He died Aug. 21, 1893.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Thomas Darling
John Quarles
1624 - 1665 Person Name: John Quarles, 1624 - 65 Author of "O King of kings, before whose throne" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America Quarles, John, son of Francis Quarles, was born in Essex in 1624, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He bore arms within the garrison at Oxford on behalf of Charles I. and subsequently (it is said) he was raised to the rank of captain in the King's service. On the downfall of the King, Quarles retired to London, and devoted himself to literature for a livelihood. He died there during the great Plague, 1665. He published several works including (1) Jeremiah's Lamentations Paraphrased, with Divine Meditations, 1648; and (2) Divine Meditations upon Several Subjects whereunto is annexed God's Love to Man’s Unworthiness, with several Divine Ejaculations. London, 1655 (Wood's Athenae Oxon.). From the Ejaculation, Mr. Darling adapted two hymns for his Hymns for the Church of England. In the 1889 ed. these are:— “O King of kings, before Whose Throne" (Holy Trinity); and "O Thou Who sitt'st in heaven and seest" (Visitation of Sick).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Quarles
