Short Name: | R. Birch Hoyle |
Full Name: | Hoyle, R. Birch (Richard Birch), 1875-1939 |
Birth Year: | 1875 |
Death Year: | 1939 |
Born: March 8, 1875, Cloughfold, Lancashire, England.
Died: December 14, 1939, Wimbledon, Surrey, England.
Hoyle attended Regent’s Park College in London, then pastored in Sudbury, Aberdeen, and London (1900-17), and in Belvedere, Kent (1923-26). He edited the YMCA’s Red Triangle magazine, and was professor of theology at Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1934-36). He later returned to England, pastoring at the Baptist church in Kingston-on-Thames. Some of his work appears in the World Student Christian Federation hymnal Cantate Domino (1925).
Translations:
Holy God, Thy Name We Bless
My Savior and My Lord
Thine Is the Glory
What Joy, to Think of That Vast Host
--www.hymntime.com/tch