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Robert J. Powell

Person Name: R. J. Powell Composer of "[Love divine, all love excelling]" in Songs of Zion

Norbert R. Ward

Composer of "SHELTER" in The Sunday School Chorister

Bill Wolaver

b. 1958 Arranger (last stanza setting and choral ending) of "BEECHER" in The Celebration Hymnal Wolaver, Bill Robert; b. 2-3-1958, Oklahoma City, OK; piano, composer editor LOC Name Authority File

Darius E. Jones

1815 - 1881 Person Name: D. E. Jones Composer of "STOCKWELL" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book

Hugh McLean

b. 1930 Person Name: Hugh John McLean Harmonizer of "HYFRYDOL" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada See The Canadian Encyclopedia.

David Allen

b. 1941 Arranger (choral ending) of "BEECHER" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration Pseudonym. See also Fettke, Tom

Friedrich von Flotow

1812 - 1883 Person Name: Flotow Composer of "FLOTOW" in The Y.M.C.A. Praise Book Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow

1907 - 1991 Person Name: Cyril V. Taylor Composer of "ABBOT'S LEIGH" in Christian Praise Cyril V. Taylor (b. Wigan, Lancashire, England, 1907; d. Petersfield, England, 1992) was a chorister at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westcott House, Cambridge. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1932, he served the church as both pastor and musician. His positions included being a producer in the religious broadcasting department of the BBC (19391953), chaplain of the Royal School of Church Music (1953-1958), vicar of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (1958-1969), and precentor of Salisbury Cathedral (1969-1975). He contributed twenty hymn tunes to the BBC Hymn Book (1951), which he edited, and other tunes to the Methodist Hymns and Psalms (1983). He also edited 100 Hymns for Today (1969) and More Hymns for Today (1980). Writer of the booklet Hymns for Today Discussed (1984), Taylor was chairman of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1975 to 1980. Bert Polman