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| Short Name: | Edmund Stuart Palmer |
| Full Name: | Palmer, Edmund Stuart, 1856-1931 |
| Birth Year: | 1856 |
| Death Year: | 1931 |
Palmer, Edmund Stuart, M.A., was b. Dec. 31, 1856, at Wherwell Priory, Hants, and educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh (M.B. and C.M., 1882) and Cuddesdon College. He was ordained D. 1889, P. 1890, as curate of St. Saviour's, Leeds; was from 1893 to 1901 on the staff of the Universities Mission at Zanzibar, and in 1904 became Vicar of Kirton in Holland, Lines. While at Zanzibar he wrote, in Swahili, a hymn for the Holy Communion, beginning “Yesu Bin Mariamu," printed in the U.M.C. A. Hymn Book. He translation it into English as "Jesu, Son of Mary, Fount of life alone," and this, privately printed in 1902, was re-written for The English Hymnal, 1906, No. 356. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by Edmund Stuart Palmer (5) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humbly we adore you, Lord of endless might | Edmund S. Palmer (Author) | 2 | |
| Jesus, Son of Mary, Fount of life alone | E. S. Palmer, 1856-1931 (Translator) | English | 19 |
| Jesus, Lord, have mercy | Edmund S. Palmer, 1856-1931 (Translator) | 4 | |
| Think, O Lord, in mercy on the souls of those | Edmund S. Palmer (Author) | English | 4 |
| Yesu, Bin Mariamu | Edmund Stuart Palmer (Author) | Swahili | 2 |
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