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Arnold Brooks

Short Name: Arnold Brooks
Full Name: Brooks, Arnold, 1870-1933
Birth Year: 1870
Death Year: 1933

Brooks, Arnold, M.A., son of John Brooks, b. at Edgbaston, Dec. 25, 1870, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and G. and C. College, Cambridge, B.A. (1st class Class. Tripos) 1893, D. 1895, P. 1896; Curate of St. Augustine's, Bermondsey, 1895-6, and of St. Peter's, Edinburgh, 1898. His vigorous hymn for Foreign Missions, "Trumpet of God, sound high," was written at the request of the Rev. E. C. Dawson, editor of the Foreign Mission Chronicle (Episcopal Ch. of Scotland), and included in that Magazine in Oct., 1900. In a slightly altered form it was included in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1904.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


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