R. A. S. Macalister

Born: July 8, 1870, Dublin, Ireland.
Died: April 26, 1950, Cambridge, England.
Buried: Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground (formerly St. Giles’ Burial Ground), Cambridge, England.

A Cambridge University graduate, Macalister’s passion was archaeology. He was a contributor to the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and directed digs for the Palestine Excavation Fund (1900-09, 1923-24). He also played the organ and directed the choir at the Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church in Dublin, and served on the committee that revised Scotland’s The Church Hymnody.

Sources:
Erickson, p. 341

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macalister_ras.htm

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