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William Henry Monk
1823 - 1889 Person Name: W. H. Monk, 1823-89 Composer of "UNDE ET MEMORES" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851).
Bert Polman
William Henry Monk
John Wainwright
1723 - 1768 Composer of "YORKSHIRE" in The Cyber Hymnal John Wainwright United Kingdom. He published a collection of Psalm tunes, anthems, chants, and hymns. A talented musician, the following year he was appointed organist and singer at Manchester Collegiate Church (later the Manchester Cathedral). His son, Robert, succeeded him as organist after he died.
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John Wainwright
Samuel Greg
1804 - 1876 Person Name: S. Greg, 1804-1876 Author of "Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill" in Hymns and Chorales Greg, Samuel, was born in Manchester, Sept. 6, 1804, and educated by Dr. Lant Carpenter, at Bristol, and at the Edinburgh University. He subsequently became a millowner at Bollington, near Macclesfield. He died, May 14, 1877. The addresses given by him at services which he conducted for his workmen at Bollington were published posthumously as A Layman's Legacy, 1877, with a prefatory note by Dean Stanley. He was also author of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, 2nd ed. 1869. Some of his short poems were appended to his Layman's Legacy. He is known to hymnody as the author of:—
1. My soul in death was sleeping. New Life in Christ. Appeared in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, and included in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, No. 400.
2. Slowly, slowly darkening. Old Age. Written in the midst of affliction, Sept. 1868, and published in his Layman's Legacy, 1877, in 11 st. of 4 lines, and entitled "Mystery of Life." In 1884 it was given in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, No. 837. In Martineau's Hymns, 1873, it reads, "Now, slowly, slowly, darkening." It is a hymn of great merit, and is well suited for Private Devotion.
3. Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill. [Transfiguration.] 1st published in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, at the close of a chapter on the Transfiguration. It was reprinted in Macmillan's Magazine, 1870. pp. 543-6, together with Dean Stanley's hymn, "Master, it is good to be," on the same subject. It was included in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, No. "4. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Samuel Greg
