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William Jones

1726 - 1800 Composer of "ST. STEPHEN" in Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church Born: July 30, 1726, Lowick, Northamptonshire, England. Died: January 6, 1800, Hollingbourne, Kent, England. Pseudonym: Jones of Nayland. Jones was educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford. He became Vicar of Bethersden, Kent (1764); Pluckley, Kent; and Paston, Northamptonshire; perpetual Curate of Nayland, Suffolk (1777); and Rector of Hollingbourne, Kent (1798). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775. His works include: The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, 1756 Fairchild Discourses, 1775 Physiological Disquisitions, 1781 A Treatise on the Art of Music, 1784 Church Pieces for the Organ with Four Anthems in Score, 1789 Jones was a descendant of the Col. J. Jones, who was one of the signatories to the death warrant of King Charles I of England. He used to regularly observe January 30 as a day of fasting and humiliation for his ancestor’s sin. Music: ST. STEPHEN --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Guillaume Franc

1500 - 1570 Composer of "DUNDEE" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Christopher Tye

1497 - 1572 Composer of "DUNDEE (Tye)" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Tye, Christopher, MUS. D., born at Westminster in the reign of Henry VIII. He was celebrated as a musician, and was granted the degree of MUS. D. at Cambridge in 1545. He was musical tutor to King Edward VI., and organist of the Chapel Royal under Queen Elizabeth. Besides composing numerous anthems, he rendered the first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles into metre, which were set to music by him and sung in Edward 6th's Chapel, and published in 1553. He died circa 1580. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Charles Zeuner

1795 - 1857 Composer of "HUMMEL" in Jubilate Deo Also: Zeuner, Heinrich Christoph, 1795-1857 Zeuner, Heinrich Christopher, 1795-1857

Elizabeth Poston

1905 - 1987 Person Name: E. P. Descant and faux-bourdon of "LONDON NEW" in The Cambridge Hymnal Elizabeth Poston (24 October 1905 – 18 March 1987) was an English composer, pianist, and writer. See more in: Wikipedia

Samuel Webbe

1770 - 1843 Composer of "BELMONT" in The Popular Hymnal Samuel Webbe, Jr. (1770-1843), adapted the tune RICHMOND. He was organist at Paradise Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool (1798). Later he succeeded his father as organist at the Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London (1817), and then St. Nicholas’ Church and St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Herbert Stephen Irons

1834 - 1905 Person Name: H. S. Irons Composer of "SOUTHWELL" in The Fellowship Hymn Book Born: January 19, 1834, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: June 29, 1905, Nottingham, England. Irons was a nephew of the brothers Stephen & George Elvey. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under T. E. Jones. After studying music under Stephen Elvey at Oxford, he was appointed organist at St. Columba’s College, a large public school at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. He stayed there only a few months before being offered the position of organist at Southwell Minister. From Southwell, he went to Chester as assistant organist to Frederic Gunton. Three years later, he accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s Church, Nottingham, where he remained until his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Gioacchino A. Rossini

1792 - 1868 Person Name: G.A. Rossini from of "[God moves in a mysterious way]" in Praise and Worship Gioacchino A. Rossini; b. 1792, Pesaro; d. 1868, Ruelle near Parise Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

George Smart

1776 - 1867 Person Name: Sir George T. Smart Composer of "WILTSHIRE" in The Fellowship Hymn Book

Cuthbert Howard

1856 - 1927 Person Name: C. Howard, 1856-1927 Composer of "LLOYD" in The Hymnal Cuthbert Howard was for many years Organist of The Wesleyan Chapel, Collyhurst, Manchester, U.K. He also composed RAKESTRAW sometime before 1913, which appeared in the "Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book." Gary Hulme

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