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Brooke Herford
1830 - 1903 Author of "Franconia" in A Book of Song and Service Born: 1830, Altrincham, Manchester, England,
Died: December 21, 1903, Hampstead, Middlesex, England.
Buried: Hale, Cheshire, England.
Son of John and Sarah Herford, Brooke received his early education in Manchester, at the school of John Relly Beard. At age 14, he left school and went into his father’s counting house for four years. As he became engaged with the local Sunday School, and at the Mosley Street Mission School, he eventually decided upon the ministry as a career. At age 18, he enrolled at Manchester New College (now at Oxford, but then at Manchester). At age 21, he began preaching at Todmorden, Yorkshire and, as his college would not support him, he withdrew from school to be a full time minister. After five years at Todmorden, his moved to the Upper Chapel, Sheffield, and nine years later, to Strangeways Free Church in Manchester. He spent 11 years there, also tutoring at the Home Missionary College.
He then moved to America to become pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Illinois (1874-91). He also served as Corresponding Secretary (1878-79) and president (1880-81) of the Chicago Literary Club; pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1882-92); and on the faculty of Harvard University, before returning to England in 1893.
Herford’s works include:
A Protestant Poor Friar: The Life-Story of Travers Madge
A The Story of Religion in England
A Sermons of Courage and Cheer
A The Small End of Great Problems
Anchors of the Soul
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Brooke Herford
William Campbell
1885 - 1985 Person Name: William Campbell, 1885- Composer of "LYNNWOOD" in Hymns of Truth and Praise
William Campbell
Daniel A. McGregor
1847 - 1890 Person Name: D. A. McGregor, 1847-1890 Author of "Jesus, wondrous Saviour!" in The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches McGregor, Daniel Arthur. (Osgoode Township, Ontario, December 13, 1847--April 25, 1890, New York City). Baptist. University of Toronto, B.A., 1881. Pastorate at Stratford, Ont., 1881-1886; professor (1886-1889) at Toronto Bible College, then the theological department of McMaster University. Appointed TBC's principal in 1889, he was almost at once paralyzed by a spinal disorder. Before going to New York for unavailing surgery, he wrote the hymn "Jesus, wondrous Saviour" which, while never officially adopted by the University, was sung in his honour at so many University ceremonies that it became known as "The McMaster Hymn" and alumni proceeded to make it familiar to Baptists throughout Canada.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
Daniel A. McGregor
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