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Nicholas Brady

1659 - 1726 Person Name: Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726 Hymnal Number: 35 Author of "Through All the Changing Scenes of Life" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Nicholas Brady, the son of an officer in the Royalist army, was born in Brandon, Ireland, 1659. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held several positions in the ministry, but later in life retired to Richmond Surrey, where he established a school. Here he translated some of the Psalms. Several volumes of his sermons and smaller works were published, but his chief work, like that of his co-colabourer Tate, was the "Metrical Version of Psalms." This version was authorized by King William in 1696, and has, since that time, taken the place of the earlier translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, which was published in 1562. The whole of the Psalms, with tunes, appeared in 1698, and a Supplement of Church Hymns in 1703. Of this version, which has little poetic merit, Montgomery says "It is nearly as inanimate as the former, though a little more refined." None of the "Metrical Psalms" are to be compared with the Psalms of the Prayer Book Psalter, and very few of them are worthy a place in a collection of hymns. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, 1872.

J. E. Sweetser

1817 - 1873 Person Name: Joseph E. Sweetser Hymnal Number: 84 Composer of "GREENWOOD" in Revival Hymns and Choruses

John Bakewell

1721 - 1819 Person Name: John Bakewell, 1721-1819 Hymnal Number: 212 Author of "Hail, Thou Once-Despised Jesus!" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Bakewell, John, born at Brailsford, Derbyshire, 1721. At about the age of eighteen his mind was turned towards religious truths by reading Boston's Fourfold State. From that date he became an ardent evangelist, and in 1744 (the year of the first Methodist Conference) he begun to preach. Removing to London some short time after, he became acquainted with the Wesleys, M. Madan, A. M. Toplady, J. Fletcher, and other earnest evangelical men. After conducting for some years the Greenwich Royal Park Academy, he resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr. James Egau, and employed much of his time in preaching at various places for the Wesleyans. He died at Lewisham, near Greenwich, March 18, 1819, aged 98, and was buried in the Wesleyan burying ground connected with the City Road Chapel, London. Mr. Bakewell was the author of a few hymns, the best known being, "Hail Thou once despised Jesus," the abbreviations of the same, "Paschal Lamb, by God appointed," and “Jesus, hail, enthroned in glory." A short memoir of him was published by Mr. Stelfox, Belfast, 1864. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Richard Keen

Hymnal Number: 330 Author of "How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints" in Revival Hymns and Choruses

A. N.

Hymnal Number: 564 Author of "Seeking for Me" in Revival Hymns and Choruses

T. C. L. Pritchard

1885 - 1960 Person Name: T. C. L. Pritchard, Hymnal Number: 344 Harmonizer of "CRIMOND" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Thomas Cuthbertson Leithead Pritchard

August Ludvig Storm

1862 - 1914 Person Name: August Ludvig Storm, 1862-1914 Hymnal Number: 137 Author of "Thanks to God!" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Storm, August Ludvig. (Motala, Sweden, October 23, 1862--July 1, 1914, Stockholm). Salvation Army. Attended trade and agricultural schools. Joined the Salvation Army and was made finance secretary at Army headquarters in 1892. Stricken with a serious back disorder. His poetry appeared in the Swedish War Cry. --J. Irving Erickson, DNAH Archives

John O. Thomson

1782 - 1818 Person Name: John O. Thompson, 1782-1818 Hymnal Number: 458 Author of "The Call for Reapers" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Thomson, John, M.D., 1783-1818. A Leeds physician, who contributed to Aspland's Collection, 1310:— 1. To God, the universal King. To the One God. 2. Jehovah, God ! thy gracious power. Omnipresence of God. 3. To thee my heart, eternal King. Praise. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Jessie Seymour Irvine

1836 - 1887 Person Name: Jessie Seymour Irvine, 1836-1887 Hymnal Number: 344 Composer of "CRIMOND" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Jessie Seymour Irvine United Kingdom 1836-1887. Born at Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland, the daughter of a parish minister of the Church of Scotland who served at Dunottar, Peterhead, and Crimond in Aberdeenshire, she became an organist, in training at the town of Banff. In 1871, while living in Crimond, she composed a tune for the metrical version of Psalm 23 as an exercise for a composition class. It was first performed at evening worship at Auchterless Parish Church. Not satisfied with her own work, she asked for help to reharmonize it from musician, David Grant, from Aberdeen. At the time, Grant was collaborating with associates compiling hymns and metrical Psalms from across north Scotland intending to publish them in a new hymnal. “The Northern Psalter” was published in 1872, became popular, and over 70,000 copies were sold. For years the hymn tune was credited to Grant, but Jessie’s sister wrote a letter to the hymnal editors claiming her sister wrote the tune, harmonized by Grant. She is now credited by most as the original composer. She died in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is commemorated by a set of four etched glass panels installed inside Crimond Parish Church in 2002. The hymn was played at Princess Elizabeth’s wedding (later Queen Elizabeth) to Philip Mountbatten in 1947. John Perry