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Homer N. Bartlett

1845 - 1920 Person Name: H. N. Bartlett Composer of "[Gracious Spirit, dwell with me]" in Hosanna for the Sunday School Homer Newton Bartlett, a pianist, organist and prolific composer, was considered during his lifetime to be in the front rank of American musicians. He was born on December 1845 in Olive, New York, the descendant of a long line of illustrious New Englanders. A musical prodigy from childhood, he studied piano and composition with a number of well-known teachers, including Emil Guyon and S.B. Mills, and took up his first position as a church organist at the age of fourteen. In August 1864, the summer after he turned eighteen, Bartlett enlisted as an infantryman in the 64th New York Regiment. He was mustered out the following year at the end of the war. Bartlett spent his adult life in New York City, where he was organist and musical director at two prestigious Protestant churches. For twelve years he served at the Marble Collegiate Church, the Dutch Reformed church founded by Peter Minuit, which is the oldest Protestant congregation in North America; he then moved to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, where he remained for the next thirty-one years. At the same time, he was composing and publishing musical works in a variety of genres, from voice-and-piano pieces intended for middle-class drawing rooms to grand symphonic works such as Apollo, a “symphonic poem” based on the Iliad. He was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists, served as president of the National Association of Organists, and won a number of musical competitions, including a 1905 composition contest sponsored by the piano manufacturers Kranich & Bach. He died in April 1920. Nancy Naber, from the New York State Library/Manuscripts and Special Collections http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/pr/sc23062.pdf

Henry Leslie

1822 - 1896 Composer of "HURSLEIGH" in Hymns of the Living Church Henry David Leslie, English composer and conductor, born in London; studied music in London; In 1855 formed the celebrated Henry Leslie's choir, which he conducted until 1880, and again, 1885-87. He conducted the Herefordshire Philharmonic Society, 1863, and, 1874, was director and conductor of the Guild of Amateur Musicians. His compositions are numerous, including a Te Deum and Jubilate in B; "Immanuel," oratorio; "Bold Dick Turpin,: operetta; "Judith," oratorio; "Ida," opera; much instrumental music, many songs, part songs, anthems, and other church music. From Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia (Vol IV), New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920

O. R. Barnicott

1852 - 1908 Person Name: Olinthus R. Barnicott Composer of "[Gracious Spirit, dwell with me]" in The School Hymnal Olinthus Roberts Barnicott was the son of James Barnicott, a painter, and Hephzibah Warren, and husband of Mary Elizabeth Ann Slater. He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge (BA & LLB 1882, LLM 1885, LLD 1897), ordained an Anglican deacon in 1886, and ordained a priest at Winchester in 1887. Barnicott served as clerk of St. Mark, Woolston, Hampshire (1886-89); clerk of Holy Trinity, Ryde, Isle of Wight (1890-91); clerk of Eling (1892-95); priest in the diocese of Chichester (1897-1902); chaplain to the Cottismore School in Brighton (1898-1905); clerk of Preston in Brighton (1902-05); and rector of Stratton-on-the-Fosse (1905-08). © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Albert W. Ham

Person Name: Dr. Albert Ham Composer of "ST. HILDA" in The Book of Common Praise Arranger and conductor

Evan K. Gibson

Alterer (stanza 3) of "Gracious Spirit, Dwell With Me" in Hymns of Faith and Life

Annie E. Snyder

Composer of "[Gracious Spirit, dwell with me]" in The Church School Hymnal with Tunes

J. A. Maunders

Composer of "[Gracious Spirit, dwell with me]" in Favorite Hymns

Robert Jackson

1840 - 1914 Person Name: R. Jackson Composer of "ASHBURTON" in Gloria Deo After receiving his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music, Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1840; d. Oldham, 1914) worked briefly as organist at St. Mark's Church, Grosvenor Square, in London. But he spent most of his life as organist at St. Peter's Church in Oldham (1868-1914), where his father had previously been organist for forty-eight years. A composer of hymn tunes, Jackson was also the conductor of the Oldham Music Society and Werneth Vocal Society. Bert Polman