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Murray Brooks

Person Name: M. Brooks Editor of "" in Hymns for Worship

N. C. Brooks

Person Name: N. C. Brooks, a. M. Editor of "" in Manual of Devotion

Author of "As we proclaim your name this hour" Minister of United Methodist Church of Centerville, Massachusetts. All his parishes were in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine. His education was at Boston University and Butera School of Art. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ============================== His activities: choral directing, music composition; hymnology and hymnody; painting; prose and verse; teaching. He is presently engaged in research on Indian American leaders and their influence upon early New England culture. ----Nine New Hymns on the Mission of the Church, 1969. Used by permission.

Phillips Brooks

1835 - 1893 Author of "O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see" in Bright Gems Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

R. T. Brooks

1918 - 1985 Person Name: Reginald Thomas Brooks Author of "Thanks to God Whose Word Was Spoken" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Also known as Rev. Peter Brooks, Reginald Thomas Brooks