1861 - 1925 Person Name: H. Elliot Button, 1861-1925 Meter: 12.10.12.10 Composer of "O WORSHIP THE LORD" in The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches Born: August 8, 1861, Clevedon, Somerset, England.
Died: Circa August 1925, Hampstead, England.
Button’s father was master of a private school, and excelled as an organist. Elliot was a self taught musician, and besides being solo alto at Holy Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, was a pianist, organist, and violinist. He was also at one time was an editor for the Novello publishing company. He harmonized a number of tunes in The Primitive Methodist Hymnal Supplement with Tunes (London: Primitive Methodist Publishing House, 1912), and edited the third series of the Bristol Tune Book.
Sources: Cowan, p. 201
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H. Elliot Button