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John T. Grimley

Hymnal Number: 247 Composer of "SUMMERFORD" in The School Hymnal

1841 - 1929 Person Name: J. Wimsett Boulding Hymnal Number: 75 Author of "Ring out, ye bells, your music tells" in The School Hymnal Boulding was born on October 21, 1841 at Westminster St. Margaret, Middlesex, England. He was a Baptist minister in Tottenham Court Road and authored several manuscripts. He died on March 18, 1929 in Chiswick, London, England. See more at http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/o/u/boulding_jw.htm

W. Acfield

Hymnal Number: 293 Composer of "VISPER" in The School Hymnal

Emma E. Marean

1854 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 221 Author of "Eternal Life, whose love divine" in The School Hymnal Marean, Emma Endicott. (Boston, Massachusetts, January 20, 1854--October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts). She married Joseph Mason Marean on January 20, 1876. Two hymns by her were included in The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book (Unitarian), 1908: Grateful for another day Set from the restless world apart Neither has been included in later hymn books but both are in her small volume of poems, Now and Then, Cambridge, 1928. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Frank E. A. Stoney

1874 - 1918 Person Name: Dr. Frank E. A. Stoney Hymnal Number: 181 Composer of "STONEY" in The School Hymnal

C. Warwick Jordan

1840 - 1909 Person Name: C. W. Jordan Hymnal Number: 158 Composer of "DOMUS DOMINI" in The School Hymnal Born: January 27, 1841, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Died: August 30, 1909, Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, England. Cremated: Golders Green, London, England. Jordan began his musical career as a chorister, first at Bristol Cathedral and later at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was educated at Oxford (BMus 1869), and received the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music in 1886. A champion of plainsong, he was an honorary organist of the London Gregorian Association, where he took a prominent part in the annual festivals at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was a professor of organ and harmony at the Guildhall School of Music, and an honorary fellow, examiner and treasurer of the Royal College of Organists. Jordan held organist positions at St. Paul’s, Bunhill Row (1857); St. Luke’s Holloway (1860); and from 1866 until his death at St. Stephen’s Church, Lewisham (where he was also choir master). His works include: One Hundred and Fifty Harmonies (London: Novello, Ewer & Company, 1880) --www.hymntime.com/tch

B. A. Cleaver

Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "O lily pure, that drawest me" in The School Hymnal

Foxell

1857 - 1933 Person Name: William J. Foxell Hymnal Number: 9 Author of "Saviour, to Thee we raise our hymn of gladness" in The School Hymnal Born: April 20, 1857, Marylebone, London, England. Died: July 29, 1933. Buried: Highgate Cemetery, London, England. Educated at London University (MA, PhD & BMus), Foxell served as assistant master in Holy Orders at Chigwell Grammar School (1881-83); headmaster, Amersham Grammar School, and chaplain of the Amersham Union (1883-86); minor canon, Canterbury Cathedral (1886-1903); Curate of St. Margaret’s, Canterbury (1887-98); diocesan inspector in the Canterbury Diaconate (1899-1903); Rector of St. Swithins, Cannon Street, London; and president of Sion College (1917 & 1921). --www.hymntime.com/tch

Charles L. Ziegler

Hymnal Number: 6 Composer of "CHURCH VIGILANT" in The School Hymnal

Hester P. Hawkins

1846 - 1928 Person Name: H. P. Hawkins Hymnal Number: 240 Author of "Almighty Father, God of love" in The School Hymnal Hawkins, Hester P., née Lewis, wife of Joshua Hawkins, of Bedford. In 1885, Mrs. Hawkins published The Home Hymn Book, A Manual of Sacred Song for the Family Circle, London, Novello & Co. To this collection she contributed 7 hymns under the signature of "H. P. H." For home use we know of no book of equal comprehensiveness and merit. The music also is well adapted to the family circle. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ======================= Hawkins, Hester Periam, p. 1570, i. Her hymns, in the Home Hymn Book, 1885, have almost all passed into other collections. The seven given with her initials "H. P. H." in the Home H. Book are:— 1. Father of all, again we meet. p. 1563, 2. Heavenly Father, Thou hast brought us. Golden Wedding. 3. Kind Shepherd, see Thy little lamb. Evening. 4. O Thou the great Unknown, Unseen. The Thought of God. 5. The twilight softly falling. Sunday Evening. 6. Thy little one, O Saviour dear. Morning. 7. To Thee, the Giver of all good. For Mothers. Mrs. Hawkins informs me that the following in the Home H. Book, 1885, are also by her:— 8. I come to Thee, my Father. Birthdays. 9. In the Name of God our Father. Beginning of Term. 10. Jesu, loving Saviour. The Love of Jesus. 11. Now the days are dark and dreary. Winter. 12. Sweetly o'er the meadows fair. Sunday Evening. 13. The happy days have come again. End of Term. There is a bright and happy home. Heaven. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)