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Frances Sara Fuller-Maitland Colquhoun

1809 - 1877 Person Name: J. A. Fuller-Maitland Hymnal Number: 6185 Composer of "LUCCOMBE" in Small Church Music Colquhoun, Frances Sara, daughter of Mrs. Ebenezer Fuller-Maitland, of Stanstead Hall, Henley-on-Thames, was born at Shinfield Park, near Reading, England, June 20, 1809; on January 29, 1834, she was married to John Colquhoun. She died May 27, 1877. She contributed to her mother's volume titled Hymns for Private Devotion, 1827, one original hymn, and also some additional lines to Henry Kirke White's incomplete hymn beginning, "Much in sorrow, oft in woe." Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles S. Nutter, 1911 ========================= Colquhoun, Frances Sara, née Fuller-Maitland, fourth daughter of Ebenezer Fuller-Maitland of Stanstead Hall, and Park Place, Henley-on-Thames, was born at Shinfield Park, near Reading, June 20, 1809; married on Jan. 29, 1834, to John Colquhoun, son of Sir James Colquhoun, Bart., and died May 27,1877. To her mother's collection, entitled Hymns or Private Devotions, &c, 1827, she contributed anonymously a piece beginning "Launched upon the stormy ocean," and her well-known additions to Kirke White's fragment "Much in sorrow, oft in woe" (p. 774, i.). In the 1863 edition of her mother's work there is another piece by her:—"There is a vale in Israel's road," and signed "F. S. C." [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Vincent Novello

1781 - 1861 Hymnal Number: 1364 Composer of "ALBANO" in Small Church Music

Sigismund Neukomm

1778 - 1858 Hymnal Number: 2656 Composer of "ST. VINCENT (NEUKOMM)" in Small Church Music Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, b. Salzburg, 1778; d. Paris 1858 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

R. L. Pearsall

1795 - 1856 Hymnal Number: 2230 Composer of "PEARSALL" in Small Church Music

Edmund Prys

1544 - 1623 Hymnal Number: 1536 Composer of "SONG 67" in Small Church Music Prys, Edmund, Prys or Price, a learned Welsh divine and eminent poet, was born about 1541 in the parish of Llandecwyn, Merionethshire, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree of M.A. He was appointed Archdeacon of Merioneth in 1576, and Canon of St. Asaph in 1602. He was one of the best Welsh poets of his time, and a great many of his compositions are preserved, mostly in manuscript. He is the author of the Welsh metrical version of the Psalms, which is still in use. He assisted Dr. Morgan, Bishop of St. Asaph, to translate the Bible into Welsh. The latest of his compositions, preserved, is a copy of elegant Latin verses in commendation of Dr. John Davies's Welsh Grammar. He was then 80 years of age. This Latin copy bears the date of 1621. He died in 1624, and was buried at Maentwrog Church. [Rev. W. Glanffrwd Thomas] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Adam Krieger

1634 - 1666 Person Name: Adam Krieger, 1657 Hymnal Number: 1846 Composer of "EINS IST NOT" in Small Church Music Krieger, Adam; b. 1-7-1634, Driesen, nr. Frankfurt an der Oder, d. 6-30-1666, Dresden; composer

Frederick G. Baker

1839 - 1919 Hymnal Number: 1459 Composer of "ST. SAVIOUR" in Small Church Music Frederick George Baker was born in Shorwell, Isle of Wight on May 19, 1839. Served at St. Saviour’s Church, Shanklin, for almost 30 years. He died in Shaklin, Isle of Wight on March 10, 1919. NN

Handel Parker

1854 - 1928 Hymnal Number: 338 Composer of "DEEP HARMONY" in Small Church Music

William Tans'ur

1699 - 1783 Person Name: William Tans`ur Hymnal Number: 1074 Composer of "ST. MARTIN`S" in Small Church Music William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur

D. A. R. Aufranc

1892 - 1979 Hymnal Number: 2333 Composer of "" in Small Church Music D.A.R. Aufranc was a physician and dentist in London. He was a third generation Adventist. His grandfather, a professor of languages and translator, was one of the first European converts to the church, due to the efforts of J. N. Andrews in Switzerland. He became a well-known physician and served as an advisor for the Good Health Association, a group of Adventist medical institutions in Great Britain. Additionally, at the time of the coronation of King George VI in 1937, an article by Aufranc, "Fighting against Death," was one of eleven featured in a church commemorative magazine published in Britain titled This Century of Wonders. He was a regular contributor in the 1930s and early 1940s to the world church's official magazine, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, later the Review and Herald, authoring both articles and poems. He also wrote practical articles on health, which appeared in the church's Life and Health magazine. Apart from the hymns that he composed for the SDA Church, he longed to be a successful composer of popular music, as played by the dance bands of the day. http://www.iamaonline.com/Bio/Raoul_Aufranc.htm (excerpts)