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William Davies

1921 - 2006 Person Name: William Davies (born 1921) Hymnal Number: 419 Composer of "KILLIBEGS" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

b. 1938 Person Name: David Mowbray (born 1938) Hymnal Number: 10 Author of "We believe in God Almighty" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Richard Bewes

b. 1934 Hymnal Number: S.31 Author of "Praise the Lord our God, praise the Lord" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Edgar Pettman

1886 - 1943 Person Name: C. E. Pettman (1866-1943) Hymnal Number: 92 Arranger of "THE INFANT KING" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

George A. Macfarren

1813 - 1887 Person Name: G. A. Macfarren (1813-1887) Hymnal Number: 257 Composer of "DEDICATION" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) George Alexander Macfarren, Mus. Doc.; b. London, 1813; d. London, 1887 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 ======================= Born: March 2, 1813, Westminster, England. Died: October 31, 1887, St. Marylebone, England. Buried: Hampstead Cemetery, London, England. Brother of Walter Macfarren, George was a principal of the Royal Academy of Music; professor at Cambridge University; conductor at Covent Garden, London; program note writer for the Philharmonic Society; and editor of Handel and Purcell. He wrote 18 operas, 13 oratorios and cantatas, 9 symphonies, and 162 songs. He went blind in 1860, and was knighted in 1883. Sources: Frost, p. 681 Lightwood, p. 189 Nutter, p. 460 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macfarren_ga.htm =============================== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Alexander_Macfarren

Bertram Luard-Selby

1853 - 1918 Person Name: B. Luard-Selby (1853-1918) Hymnal Number: 409b Composer of "ECCLES" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Caryl Micklem

1925 - 2003 Person Name: Caryl Micklem (born 1925) Hymnal Number: 256 Composer of "GATESCARTH" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Walter Parratt

1841 - 1924 Person Name: W. Parratt (1841-1924) Hymnal Number: 385 Composer of "OBIIT" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Thomas Pestel

1584 - 1659 Person Name: T. Pestel (c.1585-1660) Hymnal Number: 50 Author of "Behold, the great Creator makes" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Pestel, Thomas, one of the chaplains to King Charles I., was Rector of Packington, Leics., until he was sequestrated from it by the Westminster Assembly in 1646. His hymns appeared in his Sermons and Devotions old and new. Revived and published as an obligation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministered to the weak condition of the Author, now aged 13 .... by Thomas Pestel, the meanest among his late Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary , London, 1659 (B. M. copy is 4452. am.). He seems to have died soon after the publication of this work. The Sermons are of 1638 and other years. Of the poetical pieces two have come into use:— 1. Fairest of Morning Lights appear. [Christmas.] In 1659, as above, as "A Psalm for Christmas Day Morning." The English Hymnal, 1906, gives sts. v.-ix., beginning "Behold, the great Creator makes," as No. 20. 2. Come, ravisht Souls with high Delight. [Praise to God.] In 1659, as above, as "A Psalm for Sunday Nights." Of this stanzas ii.-iv., vi., vii., beginning "O sing the glories of our Lord," are in Horder's Hymns Supplemental, 1894, No. 1016. Two other pieces are in W. T. Brooke's edition of Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph , 1888, pp. 193, 195. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

Stephen Langton

1160 - 1228 Person Name: S. Langton (c.1160-1228) Hymnal Number: 227 Author of "Come, most Holy Spirit, come!" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Archbishop of Canterbury, 1207-1228