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Ernest Hawkins

1802 - 1868 Person Name: Ernest Hawkins (1802-1868) Adapter of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY (BELVILLE)" in The Summit Choirbook Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., son of Major Hawkins, born Jan. 25, 1802, at Hitchin, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1842). He was for sometime a Fellow of Exeter College. On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of Burwash, sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, Curate of St. George's, Bloomsbury, Minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, London, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Canon of Westminster. From 1838 to his death, Oct. 5, 1866, he also acted as secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Besides his prose works, which were not numerous, he published Verses in commemoration of the Third Jubilee of the S.P.G. (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), 1851-2. To this little collection his hymns were contributed. The most extensively used of these, "Lord, a Saviour's love displaying" (Missions), has been adopted by many collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Friedrich von Flotow

1812 - 1883 Person Name: Flotow Composer of "GUIDANCE" in Gospel Hymn and Tune Book Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow

Timothy R. Matthews

1826 - 1910 Person Name: Rev. T. R. Matthews Composer of "[Look, ye saints; the sight is glorious]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Timothy Richard Matthews MusB United Kingdom 1826-1910. Born at Colmworth, England, son of the Colmworth rector, he attended the Bedford and Gonville Schools and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1853 he became a private tutor to the family of Rev Lord Wriothesley Russell, a canon of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he studied under organist, George Elvey, subsequently a lifelong friend. He married Margaret Mary Thompson, and they had 11 children: Norton, Mary, George, Cecil, Evelyn, Eleanor, Anne, Arthur, Wilfred, Stephen, and John. Matthews served as Curate and Curate-in-Charge of St Mary’s Church, Nottingham (1853-1869). While there, he founded the Nottingham Working Men’s Institute. He became Rector at North Coates, Lincolnshire (1869-1907). He retired in 1907 to live with his eldest son, Norton, at Tetney vicarage. He edited the “North Coates supplemental tune book” and “Village organist”. An author, arranger, and editor, he composed morning and evening services, chants, and responses, earning a reputation for simple but effective hymn tunes, writing 100+. On a request he wrote six tunes for a children’s hymnal in one day. He composed a Christmas carol and a few songs. His sons, Norton, and Arthur, were also known as hymn tune composers. He died at Tetney, Lincolnshire, England. John Perry

Harry H. Beadle

1828 - 1902 Person Name: Harry Hobart Beadle (1828— ) Composer of "VICTORY" in Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes Harry Hobart Beadle was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. He was a member of the South Congregational Church in Brooklyn and for nearly thirty years he served as organist and also as clerk. In 1861 what was known as the Carroll Guard was organized in the church. It became Company F of the Thirteenth Regiment. Beadle was the Second Lieutenant, then became Captain and then Colonel. He was President of the Thirteenth Regiment Veteran Association. New York Times obituary, December 4, 1902

E. C. Avis

1859 - 1933 Composer of "[Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious]" in Sacred Melodies Nos.1 and 2 combined

Caryl Florio

1843 - 1920 Person Name: C. Florio Composer of "[Look ye saints the sight is glorious]" in Songs of Worship Real name William James Robjohn. He used Caryl Florio as a pseudonym.

Daniel Hughes

Person Name: D. H. Translator of "Gwelwch, saint, olygfa nefol (Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious)" in Mawl a chân = praise and song

Joseph Herl

Person Name: Joseph Herl, b. 1959 Arranger of "BRYN CALFARIA" in Lutheran Service Book HERL, JOSEPH, AAGO, ChM (b. 1959): B.A. (Music), Concordia College, New York; M.Mus. (Organ), North Texas State University; Ph.D. (Musicology), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Professor of Music at Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska and organist of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Lincoln, Nebraska. Author of Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism (Oxford University Press, 2004); choral and organ music published by Oxford, Concordia, and MorningStar. Joseph Herl (from In Melody and Song, Darcey Press, 2014

George Hugh Bourne

1840 - 1925 Person Name: George H. Bourne, 1840-1925 Author of "Look, Ye Saints" in Hymns for Youth Bourne, George Hugh, D.C.L., son of Rev. R. B. Bourne, born at St. Paul's Cray, Kent, 8th Nov. 1840, and educated at Eton, and O. C. C, Oxford, graduating B.A., 1863; B.C.L., 1866; and D.C.L. 1871. Taking Holy Orders in 1863, he became Curate of Sandford-on-Thames, 1863. He was afterwards Head Master of Chardstock College, and is now (1886) Warden of the same school, which has been transferred to St. Edmund's, Salisbury. Dr. Bourne has written the following hymns:— 1. Scarce discerning aught before us. General, Written in Switzerland in 1861, and published in Lyra Messianica, 1864, p. 17, in 10 stanzas of 4 lines, and repeated in the Appendix to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Psalms & Hymns, 1869, in an abbreviated form. 2. 0 Christ, the king of human life. Holy Matrimony. A hymn on Holy Matrimony, written in 1867 for the marriage of Dr. A. B. Webb, Bishop of Bloemfontein, and included in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Appendix to the Psalms & Hymns, 1869, and thence into Church Hymns, 1871. 3. Of the wondrous Body, 0 my tongue be telling. A translation of "Pange lingua gloriosi corporis," q.v., contributed to Lyra Eucharistica, 2nd edition, 1864. Dr. Bourne has also written seven Post-Communion hymns for use in the Chapel of St. Edmund's College, Salisbury. These hymns have not been published. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Bourne, George H, p. 164, ii. From his Post Communion Hymns, privately printed in 1874 (see p. 165, i., 3), the hymns "O Christ, our God, 'Who with Thine own hast been" (Holy Communion), and "Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour" (Holy Communion), are taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)