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Andrew Kippis

1725 - 1795 Person Name: Kippis Hymnal Number: 81 Author of "On thee, each morning, O my God" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies Kippis, Andrew, D.D., was born at Nottingham, March 28,1725, and educated for the ministry under Dr. Doddridge at Northampton, 1741-46. After a short residence with congregations at Boston and Dorking, he settled in London in 1753, as minister of the Princes Street Chapel, Westminster. There lie remained till his death in 1795, holding rank as the leading Presbyterian minister in the metropolis. For many years he was classical tutor at the Hoxton Academy, and afterwards at the Hackney College. He contributed largely to the Gentleman's Magazine and the Monthly Review, and edited five volumes of a new edition of the Biographia Britannica, a work commenced in 1778, and interrupted by his death on Oct. 8, 1795. His Life of Captain Cook was also published separately, and to his edition of Lardner's Works (1788) a Memoir was prefixed. His degree of D.D. was con¬ferred by the University of Edinburgh in 1767. He was joint editor of A Collection of Hymns and Psalms for Public and Private Worship, selected and prepared by Andrew Kippis, D.D., &c. ; Abraham Rees, D.D., &c.; Rev. Thomas Jervis, and Rev. Thomas Mor¬gan, LL.D., London, 1795. This collection, commonly known as Kippis's, but sometimes as Kees's, passed through many editions, a Supplement being added in 1807, and was very generally used during the early decades of this century by congregations of Presbyterians and others, then become Unitarian in London and throughout the country [Unitarian Hymnody, § 9]. It contained 690 hymns. The aim of the editors in their selection was to avoid “everything of a doubtful or disputable kind," and they adopt the language of Dr. Watts in the preface to his Hymns, "The contentious and distinguishing word of sects and parties are excluded." The alterations and omissions to adapt various hymns to the standard of the editors are considerable, though very little compared to what was done by others before and after them. The tone of the collection is somewhat colourless, and it gradually gave place among Unitarians to others which contained fuller and more varied expression of distinctively Christian feeling. Two hymns by Kippis appear in this Collection. 1. Great God, in vain man's narrow view, The Incomprehensibility of God, which was generally adopted in later Unitarian books, and appears in Martineau's Hymns, 1840 and 1873. 2. How rich thy gifts, Almighty King, National Thanksgiving, which is four stanzas of the hymn, "Say, should we search the globe around," written for the thanksgiving appointed Nov. 29,1759, and appended to his Sermon on that occasion. It was given in full in Pope's Collection, 1760; and the Liverpool Octagon Collection, 1763. In Lindsey's Collection, 1774, five stanzas are given; in other early books only four, as in Kippis. The last two stanzas, somewhat altered, appear anonymously as: "With grateful hearts, with joyful tongues," in the Congregational Hymn Book, 1836, and the New Congregational Hymn Book, 1859. [Rev. Valentine. D. David, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Shield

1748 - 1829 Person Name: Shield Hymnal Number: 19 Composer of "TRENTON" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies

John Langford

1690 - 1790 Person Name: Langford Hymnal Number: 146 Author of "Now begin the heavenly theme" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies Langford, John. The time and place of this person's birth are unknown. He is said to have been connected with the early Methodists, and then to have become a member of the Baptist church in Eagle Street, London. In 1765 he began to preach in a chapel called Blacksfields, in Gainsford Street, London, and in the following year was ordained pastor. There he remained for 12 years, then removed to Rose Lane, Ratcliff, and afterwards to a small place in Bunhill Row. But his imprudent conduct compelled him at length to give up preaching. He inherited considerable property, but squandered it in extravagance, and died in great wretchedness about 1790. J. Langford published a few Sermons, and, in 1776, a collection of Hymns & Spiritual Songs, which reached a second edition The excellent and well-known hymn "Now begin the heavenly theme," has been ascribed to him. It is in his collection; but since, in the preface to his second edition, he tells us that he has marked his own hymns with an asterisk, and this one is not so marked, it is clearly not of his composition. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Joachim von Burgk

1546 - 1610 Person Name: Joachim A. Burck Hymnal Number: 26 Composer of "DAWN" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies

John Hawkesworth

1715 - 1773 Person Name: Hawkesworth Hymnal Number: 26 Author of "In sleep's serene oblivion laid" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies Hawkesworth, John, LL.D. (b. 1715, and d. Nov. 1773), a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, proprietor and editor of the Adventurer, and friend of Johnson, Warton, and other literary men of note, published, in 1760, Poems and Translations, and was the author of the well-known Morning hymn "In sleep's serene oblivion laid." This hymn was composed in 1773, "about a month before his death, in a wakeful hour of the night, and dictated to his wife on rising. It appeared in the Universal Theological Magazine for March, 1802." (Miller's Singers & Songs, &c, p. 210.) It was given in Collyer's Selection, 1812; the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853; and others; and is in somewhat extensive use in America. It sometimes begins, as in the American Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, with stanza ii., "Newborn, I bless the waking hour." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

David Rizzio

1533 - 1566 Hymnal Number: 136 Composer of "MILTON" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies

Francis Linley

1774 - 1800 Person Name: Linley Hymnal Number: 36 Composer of "ELLENTHORPE" in Church Chorals and Choir Studies Born: 1771, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. Died: September 13, 1800, at his mother’s house in Doncaster. Buried: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. Blind from birth, Linley studied with Edward Miller, organist at Doncaster Parish Church, and later (being the successful candidate among 17 competitors) became organist of St. James Chapel, Pentonville, London. He married a well-to-do blind lady, and around 1797 they purchased Bland’s music business in Holborn, which was unsuccessful. He was also for some time music agent for John Watlen of Edinburgh. After sustaining great financial losses through the treachery of a friend, and subsequently made a voyage to America (being succeeded by as chapel organist by William Hodsoll), where his performances and compositions brought him some notice. He returned to Doncaster in 1799. Sources: Wilson, p. 296 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/n/linley_f.htm