Person Results

French E. Oliver

Person Name: F. E. O. Hymnal Number: 320 Author of "None but the Sinless Man" in Celestial Songs

Thomas Turton

1780 - 1864 Person Name: T. Turton Hymnal Number: 35 Composer of "ELY" in Celestial Songs Turton, Thomas; b. 25 Feb. 1780 Yorkshire, England; d. 7 Jan. 1864 London; clergyman and scholar

Agnes M. Heathcote

Person Name: A. M. H. Hymnal Number: 804 Author of "I'll Follow Thee" in Celestial Songs

1812 - 1897 Person Name: Mrs. C. H. Esling Hymnal Number: 392 Author of "I will Give you Rest" in Celestial Songs Esling, Catherine H., née Watterman, was born in 1812, and married in 1840 to George J. Esling, of Philadelphia. Her poems were collected and published in 1850 as The Broken Bracelet, and other Poems. She is widely known as the author of "Come unto Me, when shadows darkly gather" (Invitation), which appeared in the Christian Keepsake annual, 1839, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines. It is usually given in an abbreviated form. Mrs. Esling is a member of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. (Nutter, 1884, p. 253.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Fred Woodrow

Hymnal Number: 156 Author of "Use Me, Saviour" in Celestial Songs

Andrew Mitchell Thomson

1779 - 1831 Person Name: Rev. A. M. Thomson, D. L. Hymnal Number: 888 Composer of "ST. GEORGE'S, EDINBURGH" in Celestial Songs

Juliette E. Perry

Person Name: J. E. P. Hymnal Number: 677 Author of "The Twilight Message" in Celestial Songs

Charles Coller

1863 - 1935 Person Name: B. Coller Hymnal Number: 811 Composer of "[In bright angelic garb appearing]" in Celestial Songs Born: March 5, 1863, Romford, Essex, England. Died: March 21, 1935, Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Coller grew up in Woodford, and joined the Salvation Army (SA) at Regent Hall in 1885. He was a member of the SA Household Troops Band on its first campaign in 1887, and later played the trombone in the SA International Staff Band. Beginning in 1895, he worked in various SA trade depots, then in the Trade Department (later Salvationist Publishing and Supplies Ltd) in London. His last appointment was in charge of the music publications department, and he retired as an SA major in 1928. In 1880 he won a copy of Heber’s Poems as a prize for a temperance acrostic, and, from 1895, he contributed more than 200 songs to The Musical Salvationist. --www.hymntime.com/tch/