Short Name: | Robert Brown-Borthwick |
Full Name: | Brown-Borthwick, Robert, 1840-1894 |
Birth Year: | 1840 |
Death Year: | 1894 |
Brown-Borthwick, Robert, born at Aberdeen, May 18, 1840, and educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Taking Holy Orders in 1865, he has been Curate of Sudeley (and Chaplain of the Winchcombs Union), Gloucestershire, 1865-6, and Evesham, 1866-8; Assistant Minister of Quebec Chapel, London, 1868-9; and Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Grange, near Keswick, 1869. He is now (1886) Vicar of All Saints, Scarborough. His publications, in addition to his prose works, are:— Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book, 1867 (4th edition, 1871); Sixteen Hymns for Church and Home, 1870; Select Hymns for Church and Home, 1871; and various Kyries, Hymn Tunes, Chants, &c. In addition he has rendered good service as one of the four Editors of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns. In this last work three of his best hymns are found: “Come, O Jesu, to Thy Table"; "O Holy Jesu, Prince of Peace”; "Let us raise our grateful voices." Canon Westcott in his Paragraph Psalter acknowledges Mr. Brown-Borthwick's assistance in preparing that work for the press as of great value thereto. He died March 17, 1894.
Of Mr. Brown-Borthwick's hymns the following appeared in his Sixteen Hymns, &c, 1870:—
1. Come, O Jesus, to Thy Table. Holy Communion.
2. Lord, in the watches of the night. Midnight.
3. O Holy Jesu, Prince of Peace. Holy Communion. The author's note to this hymn is, "This is not a congregational hymn, but a meditation, to be read while non-communicants are retiring, or to be sung by the choir alone, anthem-wise, kneeling."
These hymns were repeated in his Select Hymns, &c, 1871-85. The following is also in that collection:—
4. Let us raise our grateful [gladsome] voices . Flower Services, or Thanksgiving. "Written in Borrowdale, on a summer morning in 1870," and published in the S. P. C. K. Church Hymns, 1871, &c.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Tunes by Robert Brown-Borthwick (13)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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ABERDEEN (Brown-Borthwick) | Rev. Robert Brown-Borthwick (1840-) (Composer) | 3 | 33516 53255 52766 |
CHRISTCHILD | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 3 | 17656 57776 75517 |
EUCHARIST (Brown-Borthwick) | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 1 | 13543 22331 76543 |
EVERMORE (Borthwick) | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 5 | 33611 23355 4432 |
GRANGE (Brown-Borthwick) | Robert Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 14 | 55321 21711 65432 |
GRETTON | R. Brown-Borthwick, 1840-1894 (Composer) | 6 | 11356 54332 55455 |
ANITA (Morris) | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 2 | 11776 54551 321 |
[My Father, hear my prayer] | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 5 | 12163 21761 43225 |
REPOSE (Brown-Borthwick) | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 2 | 34333 24354 32211 |
SALVE FESTA DIES (Brown-Borthwick) | R. Brown-Borthwick (1840- ) (Composer) | 2 | 53265 54653 25556 |
ST. JUDE (Brown-Borthwick) | R. Brown-Borthwick, 1840-1894 (Composer) | 3 | 51321 17134 3212 |
SUNNYSIDE (Brown-Borthwick) | R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 7 | 11765 24333 51765 |
[There came a little Child to earth] (Brown-Borthwick) | Rev. R. Brown-Borthwick (Composer) | 2 | 13321 24321 66155 |