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Wollenhaupt

Hymnal Number: 231b Composer of "[For the beauty of the earth]" in The New Children's Hymnal

1830 - 1903 Hymnal Number: 148 Author of "Lead us, heav'nly Father" in The New Children's Hymnal 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/

John Napleton

b. 1850 Person Name: Rev. J. Napleton Hymnal Number: 205 Composer of "[Glory to the Blessèd Jesus!]" in The New Children's Hymnal

Herbert Hall Woodward

1847 - 1909 Person Name: Rev. H. H. Woodward, Mus. Doc. Hymnal Number: 76 Composer of "[In His own raiment clad]" in The New Children's Hymnal

Harriet Callow

1819 - 1883 Person Name: H. A. Callow Hymnal Number: 216 Composer of "[How can we serve Thee, Lord]" in The New Children's Hymnal Harriet Anne (Smart) Callow, daughter of Henry Smart, a violinist, and the sister of Henry Thomas Smart, composer of hymn tunes (i.a. REGENT SQUARE). She was married to William Callow, the English landscape painter. Dianne Shapiro

Frederic Chopin

1810 - 1849 Person Name: Chopin Hymnal Number: 304 Composer of "[O happy home! Where Thou art loved the dearest]" in The New Children's Hymnal

H. Fleetwood Sheppard

1824 - 1901 Person Name: Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppard Hymnal Number: 333 Composer of "["Forward!" said the Prophet]" in The New Children's Hymnal

Mary Butler

1841 - 1916 Hymnal Number: 151 Author of "Looking upward every day" in The New Children's Hymnal Butler, Mary. The following hymns in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book 1881:—"Looking upward every day " (Onwards), and "O help me, Lord, this day to be" (Morning), are signed with this name. Beyond this we have no information. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Butler, Mary, p. 1555, ii., is a granddaughter of Bp. Samuel Butler, of Lichfield, 1836-39; and daughter of Thomas Butler, M.A., sometime Rector of Langar, Notts, and Prebendary of Clifton in Lincoln Cath. “Whiteness of the winter's snow" (All from God), in The Council School Hymn Book 1905, is also by Miss Butler. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

James Cowden Wallace

1793 - 1841 Person Name: John Aikman Wallace Hymnal Number: 269 Author of "There is an Eye that never sleeps" in The New Children's Hymnal Wallace, James Cowden, was born at Dudley, circa 1793. He was brother of the Rev. Robert Wallace (1791-1880), Professor of Theology in Manchester New College, and author of Antitrinitarian Biography. J. C. Wallace was Unitarian minister at Totnes, 1824, and afterwards at Brighton and Wareham. He died at Wareham in 1841. He was a prolific hymnwriter, and contributed various other poetical pieces to the Monthly Repository. In a Selection of Hymns for Unitarian Worship, by R. Wallace, Chesterfield, 1822, there are 13 of his hymns, and in the 2nd edition of the same, 1826, there are 29 more. There are also 10 of his hymns in the Dukinfield Selection of Psalms & Hymns for Christian Worship, 1822 (still in use), and 64 in Beard's Collection of Hymns, 1837. Of these hymns the following are still in common use:— 1. Is there no balm to soften grief? The Efficacy of Prayer (1837). 2. It is not rank, or power, or state. The Universality of the Gospel. 3. There's not a place in earth's vast round. God seen in Everything. 4. Through every clime God's care extends. Divine Care of All. 5. There is an eye that never sleeps. The Divine Helper in Need. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Wallace, James Cowdan, 1793 (?>-184l. Minister at various places in the south of England, finally at Wareham, author of a considerable number of hymns, to be found in his brother Robert's Selection of Hymns for Unitarian Worship, Chesterfield, 1822, enlarged ed., 1826, and in Beard's Collection, 1837. In the Baptist Hymnal is, "There is an eye that never sleeps” (The Divine watchfulness). See "There's not a star whose trembling light.” --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)