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William Hamilton Drummond

1778 - 1865 Person Name: Drummond, 1585-1649 Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "A voice from the desert comes awful and shrill" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Drummond, William Hamilton, D.D., son of an Irish physician, was born at Ballyclare, Antrim, Ireland, 1772, and died at Dublin, Oct. 16, 1865. Educated for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, he became, in 1793, the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Belfast, and in 1816, of the Strand Street Chapel, Dublin. His poetical works include:— (1) Juvenile Poems, 1797; (2) Trafalger, 1805; (3) The Giant's Causeway, 1811; (4) Clontarf, 1817; (5) Who are the Happy? a Poem, on the Christian Beatitudes, with other Poems on Sacred Subjects, 1818. In 1818 A Selection of Psalms & Hymns for the Use of the Presbytery of Antrim, and the Congregation of Strand Street, Dublin, was published at Belfast. This Selection was probably edited by Dr. Drummond. It contained several of his hymns. Five of these (Nos. 84, 190, 201, 236, 264) were contributed to that edition. From Who are the Happy? the following hymns have come into common use:— 1. A voice from the desert comes awful and shrill. Advent. This is in extensive use in the Unitarian hymn-books of America. 2. Come, let us sound her praise abroad. Charity. 3. Father, I may not ask for less. Charity. This is stanzas ii.-v. of No. 2, with a new introductory stanza. In this form the hymn was given in the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853. 4. Give thanks to God the Lord. Victory through Christ. Limited in use, although a hymn of much spirit. It appeared in the Belfast Psalms & Hymns, 1818. 5. O had I the wings of a dove. Retirement. This hymn is not suited to congregational use. It appeared in the Belfast Psalms & Hymns, 1818. The original texts of these hymns are in Lyra Britannica, 1867, from whence also most of the biographical facts have been taken. A few of Drummond's hymns, in addition to those named, are found in some American Unitarian collections. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Drummond, William, p. 312, ii. In the British Museum there is a copy of Drummond's Poems as fol¬lows :— Poems by William Drummond of Hawthornedene. The second Impression, Edinburgh. Printed by Andro Hart, 1616. Neither the Flowers of Zion, nor the translations from the Latin are therein. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch

1809 - 1870 Person Name: Rev. S. G. Bulfinch Hymnal Number: 64 Author of "Father, when o'er our trembling hearts" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf, D.D. This Unitarian minister was born at Boston, June 18, 1809, and removed to Washington in 1818, his father being the architect of the Capitol. He graduated at Columbian College and the Cambridge Theological School. In 1831 lie was ordained at Charleston, S.C., as assistant to Dr. Gilman. Subsequently he was pastor at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Washington, 1838; Nashua, New Hampshire, 1845; Dorchester, Mass., 1852; and "East Cambridge, Mass., 1865. He died at the last place, Oct. 12, 1870. His works include:— (1) Contemplations of the Saviour; A Series of Extracts from the Gospel History, with Reflections and Original and Selected Hymns. Boston, Carter and Hendee, 1832. This has been reprinted in England. (2) Poems, Charleston, S.C., 1834. (3) Lays of the Gospel, 1845. In addition to these works, which contain his original hymns, he also published (4) The Harp and Cross, a selection of hymns, in 1857. Those of his hymns which have attained ta the greatest popularity are:— 1. Hail to the Sabbath day. Sunday. In the Contemplations, &c, p. 45. It is appended to Sect. xii. on the “Walk through the corn¬fields," and is in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. It is in extensive use both in Great Britain and America, and is the best known of this author'ess hymns. In many collections it begins with st. ii., " Lord, in Thy [this] sacred hour." 2. Hath not thy heart within thee burned? Presence of Christ. In the Contemplations, &c, p. 148, as the accompanying hymn to the Reflections on Jesus appearing to His disciples on their way to Emmaus, It is in 5 stanzas of 4 lines and is given in the Collections of Beard, Martineau, and others in Great Britain. 3. 0 suffering friend of human kind. Passiontide. The hymn in 4 stanzas of 4 lines appended to Sect. xxxv. on "Peter's confession of Christ," in the Contemplations, &c, p. 109. It ranks next in popularity to ”Hail to the Sabbath day." In addition to these hymns which best represent Dr. Bulfinch's power? as a sacred poet, the following are also in limited use:— 4. Burden of shame and woe. Crucifixion. 5. Holy Son of God most high. Miracles of Christ. 6. How glorious is the hour. The New Life. 7. It is finished! Glorious word. Good Friday. 8. There is a strife we all must wage. Life's Duty. These are from his Poems, 1834. The next— 9. What power unseen by mortal eye. Cure of Nobleman's Son. From the Contemplations, &c, p. 56. 10. In the Saviour's hour of death. Good Friday. Also from the Contemplations, p. 142: Dr. Bulfinch's hymns were made known to English readers through Beard's Collection, 1837, in which 19 were given. His hymns throughout are noted for solid and tranquil piety, and deserve a wider circulation than has been accorded to them. They embrace some good hymns on the miracles of Christ. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==================== Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf, p. 191, ii. Several of this authors hymns, not noted in this Dictionary, were given in Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns , 1846-8. Additional hymns by him in English common use are:— 1. Benignant Saviour! 'twas not Thine. The Compassion of Christ . From his Contemplations of the Saviour , &c, 1832. In Horder's Congregational Hymns. 1884, it reads “Most gracious Saviour! 'twas not Thine." 2. We gather to the sacred board. Holy Communion. This in Horder is from Bulfinch's Communion Thoughts, 2nd ed., 1852. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Caroline Gilman

1794 - 1888 Person Name: Mrs. C. Gilman Hymnal Number: 307 Author of "We bless Thee for this sacred day" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Mrs. Caroline Gilman was born in Boston, in 1794. She married the Rev. Samuel Gilman, a Unitarian minister, in 1819. Soon after, they removed to Charleston, South Carolina. Mrs. Gilman has written considerable prose and some poetry. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872. ================== Gilman, Caroline, née Howard, daughter of Samuel Howard, and wife of Dr. S. Gilman (q.v.), was b. at Boston, U. S., in 1794, and married to Dr. Gilman in 1819. After Dr. Gilman's death in 1858, she resided for a time at Cambridge, U. S., and subsequently at Tiverton, Long Island. Mrs. Gilman is the author of several tales, ballads, and poems, and of the following hymns:— 1. Is there a lone and dreary hour? Providence. Contributed to Sewall's Unitarian Collection, N. York, 1820, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, In 1867 Mrs. Gilman added a stanza thereto for the Charlestown Services & Hymns. The original hymn is in extensive use amongst the Unitarians in Great Britain and America. 2. We bless Thee for this sacred day. Sunday. Also contributed to Sewall's Collection, 1820, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, to which another was added by Mrs, Gilman, for the Charlestown Services & Hymns, 1867. In extensive use. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Gilman, Caroline (Howard). (Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1794--September 18, 1888, Washington, D.C.) Unitarian. She married Rev. Samuel Gilman on October 14, 1819, and after his death in 1858 lived for a time in Cambridge, Mass., and later in Tiverton, Long Island, New York. She began to write stories and poems at an early age, many of which were published in The Rosebud, later called The Southern Rose, a juvenile weekly paper published in Charleston, South Carolina, which she edited for several years, beginning in 1832. Her book entitled Verses of a Lifetime was published in 1854, as were a number of other books which gave her a considerable reputation as an author. Five of her poems are included in Putnam's Singers and Songs, etc. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower

1797 - 1853 Person Name: Jane Roscoe Hymnal Number: 104 Author of "Thy will be done! I will not fear" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Roscoe, Jane, a second daughter of William Roscoe, was born in 1797, married to Francis Hornblower in 1838, and died in 1853. Her Poems by one of the Authors of Poems for Youth by a Family Circle were published in 1820, and her Poems in 1843, Her hymns in common use are:— 1. How rich the blessings, O my God. Gratitude. In the Liverpool Kenshaw Street Collection 1818. 2. My Father, when around me spread. Peace in Affliction. Appeared in the Monthly Repository, Dec, 1828; and the Sacred Offering, 1832. 3. O God, to Thee, Who first hast given. Self-Consecration. In Poems for Youth, 1820. 4. Thy will be done, I will not fear. Resignation. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lewis G. Pray

1793 - 1882 Hymnal Number: 239 Author of "When God upheaved the pillared earth" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Pray, Lewis Glover, was born at Quincy, Massachusetts, Aug. 15, 1793. Removing to Boston in 1808, he entered into business there in 1815, and retired therefrom in 1838. He was for some time a member of the City Government of Boston, of the Board of Education, and of the State Legislature. From an early date lie was associated with Sunday schools, and was for 34 years superintendent of the Sunday School of the Twelfth Congregational Society, Boston. In 1833 he published a Sunday School Hymn Book, the first with music ever compiled for American Unitarian Sunday schools. This was enlarged in 1844 as the Sunday School Hymn and Service Book. He also published a History of Sunday Schools, 1847; a Christian Catechism, 1849; and other works. His hymns and poems were collected and published in 1862, as The Sylphides' School, and a second volume of a like kind appeared in 1873, as Autumn Leaves. Most of his hymns appeared in his collections of 1833 and 1844. Putnam (to whom we are indebted for these details) gives in his Singers and Song, &c, 1874, p. 81, four pieces from his volume of 1862, and two from that of 1873. One of these, "When God upheaved the pillared earth" (Silent Work) was repeated in the American Hymns of the Ages, 3rd series, 1864. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Carolina O. Nairne

1766 - 1845 Person Name: Caroline, Baroness of Nairn Hymnal Number: 255 Author of "Would you be young again?" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Nairne, Carolina Oliphant. (Gask, Perthshire, Scotland, August 16, 1766--October 26, 1845, Gask). Scottish baroness. Her poems were collected as Lays from Starthearn (1846) some of which are the most popular Scottish songs. Source: Rogers, Charles. (Ed.) (1869, rev. ed. 1905). The Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. Edinburgh: John Grant.

George S. Burleigh

Person Name: G. S. Burleigh Hymnal Number: 55 Author of "Ah! why should bitter tears be shed" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series)

Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston

1812 - 1899 Person Name: Mrs. R. C. Waterston Hymnal Number: 17 Author of "O fair-haired Northern hero" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series)

Charlotte Mellen Packard

Person Name: C. M. P. Hymnal Number: 116 Author of "O shadow in a sultry land!" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Packard, C. M., is the author of "O shadow in the sultry land," in the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and the Hymn [& Tune] Book, &c, Boston, U. S., 1868. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Hartley Coleridge

1796 - 1849 Hymnal Number: 80 Author of "Be not afraid to pray,--to pray is right" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Coleridge, Hartley, eldest son of S. T. Coleridge, b. 1796, d. 1849, is known to hymnody through some pieces published in his (posthumous) Poems by Hartley Coleridge, with Memoir by his Brother, Lond., 1851, including "Be not afraid to pray: to pray is right" (Prayer); and "In holy books we read how God hath spoken" (Voice of God in Nature). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= David Hartley Coleridge (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849) was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet and translator, and his brother Derwent Coleridge was a distinguished scholar and author. Hartley was named after the philosopher David Hartley. Hartley was born in Clevedon, a small village near Bristol. His father mentions Hartley in several poems, including the well known Frost at Midnight, where he addresses him as his "babe so beautiful", and in his The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, both of which are concerned with young Hartley's future. In the Autumn of 1800 Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved his wife and young son Hartley to the Lake District. They took a home in the vale of Derwentwater, on the bank of the Greta River, about a mile away from Greta Hall, Keswick, the future home of the poet Robert Southey, which was then being built. Hartley spent his early years in the care of Robert Southey at Greta Hall, which possessed the best library in the neighborhood. Hartley's brother, Derwent says the following about Hartley's time at Greta Hall: "The unlimited indulgence with which he was treated at Greta Hall, tended, without doubt, to strengthen the many and strong peculiarities of his nature, and may perhaps have contributed to that waywardness and want of control, from which in later-life he suffered so deeply." Hartley received his early education from his father. In 1807 he was taken by his father and William Wordsworth to Coleorton, in North West Leicestershire, and then to London. Here he visited the London theatres, and the Tower of London with Walter Scott. He was also introduced to the study of chemistry by Humphrey Davy. Hartley spent the next 8 years in constant companionship with his younger brother Derwent, at home and at school.[1] Beginning in the summer of 1808 they attended school as day-scholars at Ambleside, under the tutelage of the Rev. John Dawes. During their time at the school they resided in Clappersgate. Their fellow students included the sons of their father's friend, the poet Charles Lloyd. Hartley and Derwent lived in the home of an elderly woman, and enjoyed total freedom in their after-school hours. Hartley, who had no aptitude for sports, spent much of his time reading and taking walks by himself, or telling stories. He had one close friend at the time, a boy named Robert Jameson, not a fellow student, to whom he afterwards addressed a series of sonnets. In his time at the school Hartley was in constant contact with William Wordsworth and his family. He pursued his studies of English in Wordsworth's library at Allan Bank in Grasmere. His privilege of studying in the Wordsworth library was continued after the Wordsworth family moved to Rydal Mount. He had inherited much of his father's character, and his lifestyle was such that, although he was successful in gaining an Oriel fellowship, at the close of the probationary year (1820) he was judged to have forfeited it, mainly on the grounds of intemperance. The authorities would not reverse their decision; but they awarded him a gift of £300. This incident deeply saddened his father, who did everything he could to try to get the decision reversed, but without success. Hartley suffered from a dependency on alcohol for the rest of his life. From 1826 to 1831, he wrote occasionally in Blackwood's Magazine, to which he was introduced by his friend, John Wilson. His contributions to this periodical form part of the general collection of his Essays. In 1830 a Leeds publisher, F. E. Bingley, made a contract with him to write biographies of Yorkshire and Lancashire worthies. These were afterwards republished under the title of Biographia Borealis (1833) and Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire (1836). Bingley also printed a volume of his poems in 1833, and Coleridge lived in his house until the contract came to an end through the bankruptcy of the publisher. From this time, except for two short periods in 1837 and 1838 when he acted as master at Sedbergh School, he lived quietly at Grasmere and (1840–1849) Rydal, spending his time in study and wanderings about the countryside. His figure was as familiar as Wordsworth's, and he made many friends among the locals. In 1834 he lost his father. Hartley made the following comment about his father's death in a letter to his mother: "though I cannot say that I was much surprised, yet so little had I prepared my mind for the loss, that it fell upon me as the fulfilment of an unbelieved prophecy: and even yet, though I know it, I hardly believe it. I do not feel fatherless. I often find my mind disputing with itself- What would my father think of this? and when the recollection awakes, that I have no father, it appears more like a possible evil than an actual bereavement." In 1839 he brought out his edition of Massinger and Ford, with biographies of both dramatists. The closing decade of Coleridge's life was wasted in what he himself called "the woeful impotence of weak resolve." On the death of his mother in 1845, he was placed, by means of an annuity on his life, on a footing of complete independence, but he lived for only 3 more years. Hartley Coleridge's literary reputation chiefly rests on his works of criticism, on his Prometheus, an unfinished lyric drama, and on his sonnets (a form which suited his particular skills). Essays and Marginalia, and Poems, with a memoir by his brother Derwent, appeared in 1851. --excerpts from en.wikipedia.org