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Michael Forster
b. 1946 Person Name: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Author of "Waken, O sleeper, wake and rise" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook
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Richard Runciman Terry
1865 - 1938 Person Name: Richard Runciman Terry, 1865-1938 Composer of "BILLING" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Terry, Richard R., was born at Morpeth, Jan. 3, 1868, and was Tate Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. In 1896 he became organist and music-master at Downside R. C. College and Abbey, Bath; and in 1901 organist and director of the choir at Westminster Cathedral (R. C.) London. He contributed to A. E. Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898, thirteen tunes and the words of two hymns:—
1. Christ, the Lord, is my true Shepherd. Ps. xxiii.
2. Peaceful eve, so still and holy. Christmas Carol. It is marked as D. C. B., i.e. for Downside Coll., Bath.
The tune by Mr. Tozor was published in 1881 to a carol beginning with the same first line, but otherwise entirely different.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Richard Runciman Terry
Henry Lahee
1826 - 1912 Person Name: Henry Lahee, 1826-1912 Composer of "NATIVITY" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England.
Died: April 29, 1912, London, England.
Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include:
Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855
Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898
One Hundred Hymn Tunes
Sources:
Frost, p. 680
CS Concordance, pp. 246-47
Nutter, p. 460
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Henry Lahee
