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Thomas Parnell

1679 - 1718 Person Name: T. Parnell, 1679-1717 Hymnal Number: 314 Author of "Holy Jesus! God of love!" in The English Hymnal Parnell, Thomas, M.A., was b. in Dublin in 1679, entered Trinity College in 1693 (B.A. 1697, M.A. 1700), was ordained D. 1700, P. 1703, became Archdeacon of Clogher 1706, and in 1716 Rector of Finglas, near Dublin. During a visit to England he was taken ill at Chester, where he died in Oct. 1718. His Poems, 1722, and Posthumous Works, 1758, are now remembered, if at all, by his poem “The Hermit." His hymn "Holy Jesus! God of love" (Holy Communion) appeared in 1758 as above, p. 246, and is in The English Hymnal, 1906 [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

W. J. Birkbeck

1859 - 1916 Person Name: W. J. B. Hymnal Number: 621 Translator of "Glory and praise and dominion be thine" in The English Hymnal

Francisco Soto de Langa

1534 - 1619 Person Name: F. Soto, 1534-1619 Hymnal Number: 482 Composer of "LANGA" in The English Hymnal

John Milton

1563 - 1647 Person Name: J. Milton, d. 1647 Hymnal Number: 472 Harmonizer of "YORK" in The English Hymnal Father of the poet, b. Stanton St. John, nr. Oxford, ca. 1563; d. London, buried 3-15-1647; English amateur composer

Isabella S. Stephenson

1843 - 1890 Hymnal Number: 520 Author of "Holy Father, in thy mercy" in The English Hymnal Born: July 1843, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Died: April 1890, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Daughter of an army officer in Cheltenham, Isabella was an invalid most of her life. ===================== Stephenson, Isabella S. , is the author of "Holy Father! in Thy mercy" (For Absent Friends), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Heinrich S. Oswald

1751 - 1834 Person Name: H. S. Oswald, 1751-1834 Hymnal Number: 455 Author of "O let him whose sorrow" in The English Hymnal Oswald, Heinrich Siegmund, son of Johann Heinrich Oswald or Osswald, of Nimmersatt, near Liegnitz, in Silesia, was born at Nimmersatt, June 30, 1751. After passing through the school at Schmiedeberg he was for seven years clerk in a public office at Breslau. In 1773 he became Secretary to the Landrath von Prittwitz at Glatz, with whom he remained two years, and was thereafter in business at Hamburg and at Breslau. Through J. D. Hermes, Oberconsistorialrath at Potsdam, whose daughter he married, he became acquainted with King Friedrich Wilhelm II. of Prussia, and in 1791 was appointed reader to the king. He accordingly removed to Potsdam, and was in 1791 appointed also Geheimrath. After the king's death, on Nov. 16, 1797, Oswald received a pension, and retired first to Hirschberg, and then to Breslau, where he died Sept. 8, 1834. (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie xxiv. 528; Miller's Singers & Songs, 1869, p. 303; extracts from the Breslauer Zeitung, Sept. 12, 1834, and the Schlesische Provinzialblätter, 1835, p. 289, kindly communicated by Dr. Markgraf of the Breslau Stadt Bibliothek, &c.) Oswald's hymns, over 100 in all, appeared principally in his (1) Unterhaltungen für gläubige Seelen, Berlin, 1792. (2) Gedichte und Lieder fürs Herz, Berlin, 1793. (3) Letzten Mittheilungen meiner der Wahrheit und Religion geweihter Muse, Breslau, 1826. (4) Schwanengesänge, Breslau, n.d. (preface Aug. 1827). Three or four of Oswald's hymns have passed into German hymnbooks. One has been translated into English, viz.:— Wem in Leidenstagen. For Mourners. In his Letzte Mittheilungen, 1826, p. 42, in 14 stanza of 4 lines, and entitled "An exhortation to Tranquillity. To the Suffering. Psalm 50, v. 15." Bunsen, in his Versuch, 1833, No. 813 (Allgemeine Gesangbuche, 1846, No. 333), selects st. i.-iii., x., xii.-xir. The singing of this beautiful hymn (in Miss Cox's version) formed an impressive part of the service in the church at Edensor at the funeral of Lord Frederick Cavendish, May 11, 1882. Translated as:— 1. 0! Let him whose sorrow. A very good translation from Bunsen's text, by Miss Cox, in her Sacred Hymns from the German, 1841… included in Alford's Psalms & Hymns, 1844, and others…. Another translation is: "When in thine hours of grief," by Lady E. Fortescue, 1843, p. 71. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Philippe de Greve

1160 - 1236 Person Name: Philippe de Grève, d. 1236 Hymnal Number: 230 Author of "Sing we all the joys and sorrows" in The English Hymnal Philippe de Grève, or Philippe le Chancelier, also known as "Philippus Cancellarius Parisiensis"

Sir Walter Scott

1771 - 1832 Person Name: Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832 Hymnal Number: 487 Author of "That day of wrath, that dreadful day" in The English Hymnal Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771. In 1786, he commenced his apprenticeship as writer to the Signet. In 1796, he first appeared before the public in a translation of Burger's "William and Helen." Many poetical works followed, until in 1814, he began the series of "Waverly Novels." He died at Abbotsford, September 21, 1832. It is related that on his death-bed he distinctly repeated portions of the Latin original, upon which "That day of wrath, that dreadful day" is based. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ====================== Scott, Sir Walter, Bart., was born in Edinburgh, Aug. 15, 1771, and died at Abbotsford, Sept. 21, 1832. Although so successful and widely known as a poet, he made no direct contributions to hymnody whatever. His condensed rendering of the “Dies Irae", and his hymn of Rebecca in Ivanhoe, "When Israel of the Lord beloved" (q.v.) were utilized as hymns for congregational use by others, but were never intended for such a purpose by himself. His work and rank as poet, novelist, and historian are fully set forth in his Life by J. G. Lockhart. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Harold A. Jeboult

1871 - 1924 Person Name: H. A. Jeboult Hymnal Number: 112 Composer of "ST. MARY MAGDALENE" in The English Hymnal Harold Arthur Jeboult, FRCO, ARCM, LMusTCL (1871-1925) was organist of Holy Trinity Taunton 1888-1897 and of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, 1897-1925. John Speller's Web Pages - Organ Music (https://spellerweb.net/poindex/OrganMusicSuppl/JeboultAP.html), used by permission of John Speller, accessed 5/24/2018

Edmund Gilding

? - 1782 Person Name: E. Gilding, d. 1782 Hymnal Number: 171 Composer of "ST. EDMUND" in The English Hymnal Gilding played the organ at St. Martin, Ludgate, England, and at St. Edmund the King, and starting around 1765, at the Parish Clerk’s Company. He contributed to Riley’s Parochial Harmony in 1762. --www.hymntime.com/tch/