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Brooke Herford

1830 - 1903 Hymnal Number: 37 Author of "Lead us, heavenly Father" in The Day School Hymn Book Born: 1830, Altrincham, Manchester, England, Died: December 21, 1903, Hampstead, Middlesex, England. Buried: Hale, Cheshire, England. Son of John and Sarah Herford, Brooke received his early education in Manchester, at the school of John Relly Beard. At age 14, he left school and went into his father’s counting house for four years. As he became engaged with the local Sunday School, and at the Mosley Street Mission School, he eventually decided upon the ministry as a career. At age 18, he enrolled at Manchester New College (now at Oxford, but then at Manchester). At age 21, he began preaching at Todmorden, Yorkshire and, as his college would not support him, he withdrew from school to be a full time minister. After five years at Todmorden, his moved to the Upper Chapel, Sheffield, and nine years later, to Strangeways Free Church in Manchester. He spent 11 years there, also tutoring at the Home Missionary College. He then moved to America to become pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Illinois (1874-91). He also served as Corresponding Secretary (1878-79) and president (1880-81) of the Chicago Literary Club; pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1882-92); and on the faculty of Harvard University, before returning to England in 1893. Herford’s works include: A Protestant Poor Friar: The Life-Story of Travers Madge A The Story of Religion in England A Sermons of Courage and Cheer A The Small End of Great Problems Anchors of the Soul --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Battison Haynes

1859 - 1900 Hymnal Number: 154 Composer of "BÉNÉDICTIONS" in The Day School Hymn Book Haynes, Walter Battison; b. 11/21/1859, Kempsey, near Worcester; d. 2/4/1900, London; English organist and composer

Baptist Wriothesley Noel

1799 - 1873 Person Name: B. W. Noel Hymnal Number: 131 Author of "There's not a bird with lonely nest" in The Day School Hymn Book Noel, Hon. Baptist Wriothesley, M.A., younger son of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, Bart., and brother of the Earl of Gainsborough, was born at Leithmont, near Leith, July 10, 1799, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Taking Holy Orders he was for some time Incumbent of St. John's Episcopal Chapel, Bedford Row, London, and Chaplain to the Queen; but in 1848 he seceded from the Church of England, and subsequently became a Baptist Minister. He was pastor of St. John's Street Chapel, Bedford Row, until 1868. He died Jan. 19, 1873. His prose works, about twelve in all, were published between 1847 and 1863. His association with hymnology is through:— (1) A Selection of Psalms and Hymns adapted chiefly for Congregational and Social Worship by Baptist Wriothesley Noel, M.A. (2) Hymns about Jesus, by Baptist Wriothesley Noel, N.D. A collection of 159 hymns, the greater part of which are his own or recasts by him of older hymns. The Selection appeared in 1832. It passed through several editions (2nd ed., 1838; 3rd, 1848, &c), that for 1853 being enlarged, and having also an Appendix of 39 original "Hymns to be Used at the Baptism of Believers." From this Selection the following hymns are still in common use:— 1. Devoted unto Thee. Holy Baptism. From "0 God, Who art our Friend." 2. Glory to God, Whose Spirit draws. Holy Baptism. 3. Jesus, the Lord of glory died. Jesus the Guide. 4. Lord, Thou hast promised to baptize. Holy Baptism. 5. We gave [give] ourselves to Thee. Holy Baptism. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Daniel Wülfer

1617 - 1685 Person Name: Daniel Wülffer, 1617-1685 Hymnal Number: 177 Author of "O Ewigkeit! O Ewigkeit!" in The Day School Hymn Book Theologian; b. 7/3/1617 Nuremberg; d. 5/11/1685 Nuremberg

Philip Sidney

1554 - 1586 Person Name: Sir Philip Sidney Hymnal Number: 96 Author of "O Lord in me there lieth naught" in The Day School Hymn Book

Frances P. Cobbe

1822 - 1904 Hymnal Number: 65 Author of "God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn" in The Day School Hymn Book Cobbe, Frances Power, daughter of Charles Cobbe, D.L., of Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, was born Dec. 4, 1822. She has written extensively on various subjects. The most important of her publications are:— (1) Essay on Intuitive Morals; (2) Religious Duly; (3) Broken Lights, 1864; (4) Duties of Women; and others. She also edited the Works of Theodore Parker, in 12 vols. Miss Cobbe has written only a few poems. Two of these were included in her Italics; Brief Notes on Politics, People, and Places in Italy in 1864 (1864), and a third in a Birthday Address to Lord Shaftesbury. Her hymn, "God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn" (Rest in the Lord), was written in 1859, in reply to some verses by an acquaintance, which were of a sad and despairing tendency. It has passed into several collections, including Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, and others. Died in April, 1904. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)