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Edwin H. Lemare

1865 - 1934 Person Name: E. H. Lemare Composer of "HAVEN" in Hymns and Tunes for Schools Born: September 9, 1865, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Died: September 24, 1934, Hollywood, California. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Lemare received the Goss scholarship at the British Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in 1878, and went on to became a fellow of the RAM and the Royal College of Organists. He played the organ at St. John the Evangelist’s, Brownswood Park; St. Andrew’s Church, and Public Hall, Cardiff, Wales; the Parish Church, Sheffield (1886); Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street; and St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster. He made a recital tour of Canada and America in 1900, and also toured Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, where he helped design organs for the Auckland Town Hall. He played the organ at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1902-15), gave recitals at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, and was municipal organist in San Francisco (1917-21) and Portland, Maine (1921). Sources: Colles, Volume II, p. 135 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Richard R. Chope

1830 - 1928 Person Name: Rev. R. R. Chope Composer of "[For Thy mercy and Thy grace]" in The New Children's Hymnal Chope, Richard Robert, M.A., born Sept. 21, 1830, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A., 1855, and took Holy Orders as Curate of Stapleton, 1856. During his residence at Stapleton the necessities of the Choir led him to plan his Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, published in 1857. In 1858 he took the Curacy of Sherborne, Dorset; in the following year that of Upton Scudamore, where he undertook the training of the Chorus of the Warminster district for the first Choral Festival in Salisbury Cathedral; and in 1861 that of Brompton. The enlarged edition of The Congregational Hymn Book was published 1862, and The Canticles, Psalter, &c, of the Prayer Book, Noted and Pointed, during the same year. In 1865 he was preferred to the parish of St. Augustine's, Queen's Gate, South Kensington, and subsequently published Carols for Use in Church during Christmas and Epiphany, 1875; Carols for Easier and Other Tides, 1887; and other works. Mr. Chope has been one of the leaders in the revival and reform of Church Music as adapted to the Public Services. He was one of the originators of The Choir and Musical Record, and was for some time the proprietor and assistant editor of the Literary Churchman. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Naylor

1838 - 1897 Person Name: John Naylor, Mus.D. (1838-) Composer of "Barnby's Hymnary, Tune 157" in The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes

John H. Willcox

1827 - 1875 Person Name: J. H. Willcox, Mus. Doc. Composer of "[For Thy mercy and Thy grace]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892