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Vittorio Giannini

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Composer (descant) of "WAREHAM" in Moravian Book of Worship

Nathaniel Ingelo

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "Divine Use of Music"

1868 - 1920 Person Name: William Vaughan Jenkins, 1868-1920 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "O God of Love" in The New Century Hymnal Born: September 6, 1868, Bristol, England. Died: June 30, 1920, Bitton, Gloucestershire, England. Jenkins attended Bristol Grammar School and became an accountant like his father. He was active in the mission field, and developed associations with the Tyndale Baptist Church, Highbury Congregational Church, and his own parish church in Bitton. He also served as secretary to the Adult School Union in Bristol, belonged to the National Council of the Adult School Movement, and helped compile the 1909 Fellowship Hymn Book. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Daniel G. Reuning

b. 1935 Person Name: Daniel G. Reuning, b. 1935 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Translator of "Sing Alleluia, Praise the Lord" in Worship (3rd ed.)

Samuel Collett

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "Providence Equitable and Kind"

Salathiel Cleaver Kirk

1847 - 1917 Person Name: Salathial C. Kirk Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "True Wisdom" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: Circa 1847, Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: Circa 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kirk’s works include: Musings Along the Way --www.hymntime.com/tch

Turlough Carolan

1670 - 1738 Person Name: T. O'Carolan, 1670-1738 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Composer of "ATHLONE" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Irish form of name Toirdhealbhach O' Cearbhalláin; forename in English trans. as Turlough or Terence; employed form name Cearbhallan on poems. Also known as Turlough O'Carolan

William Watkins Reid

1890 - 1983 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "Lord, wake your church from self concern" Reid, William Watkins, Sr. (Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, October 15, 1890--February 18, 1983, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania). Methodist. Parents were William Reid, a native of Moneymore, near Belfast, and Sarah Watkins of Londonderry. Came to the United States in 1900. Attended New York University (bachelor's degree, 1915; master's degree in journalism, 1917). Served The Hymn Society as President, Executive Director, and Editor of The Hymn from 1966 to 1976. Authored the Hymn Society's 40th anniversary history, Sing with Spirit and Understanding. Also edited The Pastor's Journal for the Methodist church and worked as its director of the News Service of the Board of Missions. Also: Caulfield, Benjamin. --From DNAH Archives ============================== William Watkins Reid, of Whitestone, Long Island, was president of the Hymn Society of America from 1942 to 1945, and is now a member of its Executive Committee. Used the title of "My God is There, Controlling," the Society has published 65 of his hymns, and several others were published in the Society's "searches", for new hymns. He is the author of the Society's history of its first forty years, and also of the added period of ten years (1962-1972). --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Krishna Pal

1764 - 1822 Person Name: Krishnu Pal, 1764 - 1822 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "O thou, my soul, forget no more" in The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches

John G. Adams

1810 - 1887 Person Name: J. G. Adams Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "God of our fathers! from whose hand" in The Voice of Praise Adams, John Greenleaf. Co-editor with Dr. E. H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846; and, alone, of the Gospel Psalmist, 1861. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1810. The collections named contain in each case 16 hymns by him. They are not, however, received outside his sect. The best are:— 1. Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness. [Peace.] Contributed to the Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846, No. 419, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. 2. God's angels! not only on high do they sing. [Ministry of Angels.] No. 830 in his Gospel Psalmist, 1861, and No. 240 in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, (1907)