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E. W. Dunbar

1823 - 1893 Topics: The Home Eternal Composer of "[There'll be no grief in heav'n]" in Christ in Song Edward Weldon Dunbar

1834 - 1905 Person Name: Herbert S. Irons, 1834-1905 Topics: The Christian Life Time, Death, Eternity; Heaven Jerusalem; Heaven Longing for; Heaven Our Home; Heaven Worship in ; Home Heaven our; Jerusalem, heavenly; Longing For Heaven Composer of "SOUTHWELL" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Born: January 19, 1834, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: June 29, 1905, Nottingham, England. Irons was a nephew of the brothers Stephen & George Elvey. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under T. E. Jones. After studying music under Stephen Elvey at Oxford, he was appointed organist at St. Columba’s College, a large public school at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. He stayed there only a few months before being offered the position of organist at Southwell Minister. From Southwell, he went to Chester as assistant organist to Frederic Gunton. Three years later, he accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s Church, Nottingham, where he remained until his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch

J. Rusling

1788 - 1839 Person Name: J. F. Rusling Topics: The Home Eternal Nearing Home Author of "Morn Breaks O'er Thee" in Christ in Song Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)