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John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Composer of "ST. SYLVESTER" in Heart and Voice 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
Horace Hills
Person Name: Horace Hills, Jr. Composer of "[All things bless Thee, God most holy]" in The Church School Hymnal with Tunes
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J. A. Mitchell
1849 - 1905 Person Name: James A. Mitchell Author of "All Things Bless Thee" in The Cyber Hymnal Mitchell, James Alexander, B.A., born in Edinburgh, Nov. 19th, 1849, and since a Congregational Minister in Nottingham. He has written a number of hymns for use at Anniversaries. One of these, written in 1880, appears in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, 1880, “All things bless Thee, God most holy" (Praise to the Father).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Mitchell, J. A., p, 1580, i. He was Principal of Nottingham Congregational Institute 1897-1903, and subsequently Secretary to the Congregational Union. Died in April 1905.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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