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David Mowbray

b. 1938 Person Name: David Mowbray, 1938- Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Author of "Lord of Our Growing Years" in Worship and Rejoice 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

James V. Lee

1892 - 1959 Person Name: James V. Lee, 1892-1959 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Composer of "EASTVIEW" in Worship and Rejoice James Vernon Lee (b. Hove, Sussex, England, 1892; d. Southampton, England, 1959) originally composed EASTVIEW for the text "Rejoice, the Lord Is King" for his mother's eightieth birthday. Lee was an officer in the Brighton Battalion of the Boys' Brigade from 1910 to 1914. After service in the British armed forces during World War I he was the bursar at Caterham College (1919-1939). He also worked as a professional magician, earning the Gold Star of the Magic Circle in 1940. Lee served as organist in several churches and composed a number of hymn tunes as well as Masonic graces. --Psalter Hymnal Handbook

James E. Clemens

b. 1966 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Harmonizer of "THE WATER IS WIDE" in Voices Together

Noel Tredinnick

b. 1949 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Arranger of "O WALY, WALY" in Sing a New Creation Composer

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Author of "O Christ the Same" in With One Voice Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Elizabeth Cosnett

1936 - 2024 Person Name: Elizabeth Cosnett, b. 1936 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:11 Author of "Can we by searching find out God" in Common Praise

John Barnard

b. 1948 Person Name: John Barnard, b. 1948 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Arranger of "LONDONDERRY AIR" in With One Voice

H. Glen Lanier

1925 - 1978 Person Name: H. Glen Lanier, 1925-1978 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1 Author of "O God, Your Constant Care and Love" in Worship and Rejoice Lanier, H. Glen. (Welcome, Davison County, North Carolina, December 12, 1925--September 9, 1978, Statesville, N.C.). Pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Thomasville, N.C. Received his A.B. degree from High Point College in 1945 and his B.D. degree from Duke University Divinity School in 1949. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives =========================== The author of some three hundred poems . . . Several of these poems have been published including one in the National Anthology of Poems of Colleges and Universities. --Five New Hymns for Youth by Youth , 1955. Used by permission.

Twila Paris

b. 1958 Person Name: Twila Paris, 1958- Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1 Composer of "LAMB OF GOD" in Worship and Rejoice

Herbert O'Driscoll

b. 1928 Person Name: Herbert O'Driscoll (1928-) Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Author of "God, You Have Caused to Be Written" in Common Praise (1998) O'Driscoll, Herbert. (Cork, Ireland, October 17, 1928-- ). Anglican. Graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, 1951. Pastorates at Monkstown (Ireland), 1952-1954; Ottawa, Ontario, 1954-1957, 1962-1968; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1957-1960 (naval chaplaincy); Carp, Ont., 1960-1962; Vancouver, British Columbia, (dean), 1968-1982. In 1982 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become the warden of the College of Preachers at Washington Cathedral, but returned to Canada after one year. In both his hymns and his published sermons, he uses traditional techniques to set forth contemporary concerns, so that his work is unusually approachable. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives Also: O'Driscoll, T. Herbert (Thomas Herbert) O'Driscoll, Thomas Herbert