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Esther Wiglesworth
1827 - 1904 Person Name: E. Wiglesworth Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Author of "Thou Who with dying lips" in The Church Hymnal Wiglesworth, Esther, daughter of Thomas Wiglesworth, was born at 6 Bruce Terrace, Tottenham, Middlesex, in 1827, and is now (1891) Matron of the Magdalen Asylum, Streatham. She has composed a large number of small poetical works, and has contributed numerous hymns and poems to the periodical press. The works from which most of her hymns in common use are taken, are: Verses for the Sundays and Holidays of the Christian Seasons, 1863; (2) Verses for Christian Children, 1871; (3) Hymns for the Feasts, and other Verses, 1878; (4) Songs of Perseverance, 1885, &c. These hymns in common use include:—
1. Almighty Father, God of love. Morning.
2. Father, look upon Thy children. Confirmation.
3. God chooseth out the place. God the Guide.
4. God sets a still small voice. Conscience.
5. How beautiful is earth. Heaven.
6. Little children, Advent bids you. Advent.
7. O Fount of life and beauty. St. Barnabas.
8. Thou Who with dying lips For Orphans.
9. When we in holy worship. Divine Worship. Miss Wiglesworth's hymns are admirably suited, through their simplicity and tenderness, for the use of children. She d. Oct. 31, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Esther Wiglesworth
David Lakie Ritchie
1865 - 1951 Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Author of "As comes the breath of spring" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Ritchie, David Lakie. (Kingsmuir, Scotland, September 15, 1864--December 14, 1951, Montreal, Quebec). Congregationalist/United Church. Studied at the University of Edinburgh, whose D.D. he received in 1917. Pastorates at Dunfermline (1890-1896) and Newcastle (1896-1903) in Britain; principal of Nottingham Theological Institute, 1903-1919; of Congregational College (Montreal), 1919-1925; and of United Theological College (1925-1939), with which his previous school merged when Canada's Congregationalists entered the church union of 1925. Although he published several works, he was best known in his own day as an effective trainer of ministers for a church in the throes of reorganization.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
David Lakie Ritchie
Silas G. Odell
Person Name: S. G. Odell Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Author of "Fount of Purity" in Timeless Truths
Silas G. Odell
Harriet Callow
1819 - 1883 Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Composer of "SOLITUDE (Callow)" Harriet Anne (Smart) Callow, daughter of Henry Smart, a violinist, and the sister of Henry Thomas Smart, composer of hymn tunes (i.a. REGENT SQUARE). She was married to William Callow, the English landscape painter.
Dianne Shapiro
Harriet Callow
Emily L. Thorn
b. 1915 Person Name: Emily L. Thorn, 1915- Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Author of "Do You Hear?" in Singing the Living Tradition
Emily L. Thorn
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