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Joseph Dacre Carlyle

1759 - 1804 Person Name: Rev. J. D. Carlyle, 1758-1804 Hymnal Number: 73 Author of "Lord, when we bend before Thy throne" in Hymnal, Amore Dei Joseph Dacre Carlyle was born at Carlisle, in 1759. He became Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, in 1794, and afterwards Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was the author of several works. His death occurred in 1804. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ====================== Carlyle, Joseph Dacre, B.D., some time Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and afterwards Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was born at Carlisle, June 4, 1758. In 1799 he accompanied the Earl of Elgin to Constantinople with the object of exploring the literary treasures of the public Library of that city. He extended his journey into Asia Minor, and the islands and shores of the Archipelago. He died at Newcastle, April 12, 1804. Amongst his manuscripts were Poems, suggested chiefly by Scenes in Asia Minor, Syria, &c. These were published under that title, in 1805, by Susanna Maria Carlyle. His hymns, which appeared in J. Fawcett's Psalms & Hymns, Carlisle, 1802, include, "Lord, when we bend before Thy throne "—his most popular production; a paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer,"Father of heaven, Whose gracious hand"; and "Lord, when we creation scan." His works include Specimens of Arabian Poetry, 1796. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Velma C. Williams

1852 - 1941 Person Name: Mrs. Theodore C. Williams Editor of "" in Hymnal, Amore Dei Williams, Velma Curtis (Wright). (East Boston, Massachusetts, July 29, 1852--January 22, 1941, Boston, Mass.). Wife of Theodore C. Williams. Her Hymnal: Amore Dei was published in Boston in 1890, revised edition 1897. It was edited with the assistance of her husband, then minister of All Souls' Church, New York, where it was used, and in many other churches as well. Mrs. Williams herself wrote no hymns. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Augusta Larned

1835 - 1924 Hymnal Number: 197 Author of "In quiet hours the tranquil soul" in Hymnal, Amore Dei Larned, Augusta. (Rutland, New York, April 16, 1835--1924). Author of six volumes of stories for children and of one on Greek mythology and another on Norse mythology. Contributor to various periodicals and for 20 years correspondent and editorial writer with The Christian Register, Boston. She published in 1895 a book of poems entitled In the Woods and Fields from which was taken her hymn on peace of mind, "In quiet hours the tranquil soul," for inclusion in the Isles of Shoals Hymn-Book, 1908; The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914; and Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives ===================================== Larned, Augusta, author, born in Rutland, Jefferson County, New York, 16 April, 1835. She was educated at Watertown and Potsdam seminaries and the Spingler institute, New York, and settled in that city as a newspaper correspondent and a contributor of sketches, stories, and poems to periodicals. In 1870 she edited "The Revolution," a woman's-rights newspaper. She is the author of six volumes of "Home Stories" (New York, 1872-'8) that were originally published in magazines and newspapers; "Talks with Girls" (1873); "Old Tales Retold from Grecian Mythology" (1875); "The Norse Grandmother, Tales from the Eddas" (1880); and "Village Photographs" (1887). --James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, (Eds.). (1887). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (Vol. 3). New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Charlotte Mellen Packard

Person Name: C. M. Packard Hymnal Number: 310 Author of "O shadow in a sultry land!" in Hymnal, Amore Dei 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)

P. Greg

Hymnal Number: 292 Author of "Lord of Nature, whose command" in Hymnal, Amore Dei

M. Woodward

Hymnal Number: 296 Author of "God of mercy, loving all" in Hymnal, Amore Dei

Abiel A. Livermore

1811 - 1892 Person Name: Rev. A. A. Livermore, 1811- Hymnal Number: 300 Author of "A holy air is breathing round" in Hymnal, Amore Dei Livermore, Abiel Abbot, D.D. was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, Oct. 30, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in Arts, in 1833; and Divinity, 1836. The latter year he was ordained as a Unitarian Minister, and became Pastor at Keene, New Hampshire, 1836; Cincinnati, 1850; Yonkers, New York, 1857. In 1863 he removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, as the President of the Theological School. Dr. Livermore is the author of various works, and was the chief editor of the Cheshire Pastoral Association's Christian Hymns, 1844, one of the most widely circulated and estimable of American Unitarian collections. To that collection he contributed "A holy air is breathing round" (Holy Communion), which has passed into several collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 680