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Margaret Mealy

1922 - 2020 Person Name: Margaret W. Mealy, b. 1922 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Martyrs Arranger of "HOLY MANNA" in The Hymnal 1982

1630 - 1697 Person Name: Jean Baptiste de Santeüil, 1630-1697 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Presentation (February 2) Author of "O Zion, open wide thy gates" in The Hymnal 1982 Santeüil, Jean-Baptiste de, was born in Paris of a good family on May 12, 1630. He was one of the regular Canons of St. Victor, at Paris, and, under the name of Santolius Victorinus, was distinguished as a writer of Latin poetry. Many of his hymns appeared in the Cluniac Breviary 1686, and the Paris Breviaries 1680 and 1736, and several have been translated into English, and are in common use in Great Britain and America. He was very jocose in disposition and singular in his habits. When on a journey he died at Dijon, Aug. 5, 1697. His Hymni Sacri et Novi were published at Paris in 1689, and again, enlarged, in 1698. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Fallas Shaw, 1875-1958 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Holy Innocents (December 28) Harmonizer of "COVENTRY CAROL" in The Hymnal 1982 Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Percy C. Buck

1871 - 1947 Person Name: Percy Carter Buck, 1871-1947 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Apostles Composer of "GONFALON ROYAL" in The Hymnal 1982

F. Samuel Janzow

1913 - 2001 Person Name: F. Samuel Janzow, b. 1913 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saint John (December 27) Author of "Praise God for John, evangelist" in The Hymnal 1982 F. Samuel Janzow was Professor of English at Concordia University Chicago from 1954 to 1980. NNM

Anne K. LeCroy

1930 - 2016 Person Name: Anne K. LeCroy, b. 1930 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) Translator (st. 2) of "The Word whom earth and sea and sky adore" in The Hymnal 1982 Rev. Anne LeCroy was a professor of English at East Tennessee State University. Following her work as a translator she was a vocational deacon in the diocese of East Tennessee, serving St. Timothy's in Kingsport, and St. John's in Johnson City. Dianne Shapiro, from email sent by Rev. Margaret Zeller, Rector, St. Christopher's, Kingsport

Johann Löhner

1645 - 1705 Person Name: Johan Löhner, 1645-1705 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Evangelists Harmonizer of "ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN" in The Hymnal 1982

Edgar Pettman

1886 - 1943 Person Name: Edgar Pettman, 1865-1943 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) Harmonizer of "GABRIEL'S MESSAGE" in The Hymnal 1982

V. S. S. Coles

1845 - 1929 Person Name: Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles, 1845-1929 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25); Holy Days and Various Occasions The Visitation (May 31) Author (sts. 1-3) of "Ye who claim the faith of Jesus" in The Hymnal 1982 Coles, Vincent Stuckey Stratton, son of Rev. James Stratton Coles, born at Shepton Beauchamp, March 27, 1845, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1868, and M.A. 1872. On taking Holy Orders in 1869, he became Curato of Wantage. In 1872 he was preferred as Rector of Shepton-Beauchamp, Somerset, and in 1884 Librarian of the Pusey Library, Oxford. Mr. Coles has contributed the following hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns. 1. Lord, in whose eternal counsels. For guidance and growth in holiness. It was first printed as a leaflet, written for E. C. U. Festival, c. 1870; and then included, after revision, in S. P. C. K. Church Hymns, 1871. 2. Most Holy Father, bending low. Lent. No. 45 in the Bucharistic Hymnal, 1877. 3. 0 Lamb of God, whose love divine. Martyrs ( Virgins). Given in the Appendix to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1868. 4. O Shepherd of the sheep. Martyrs (Bishop). Also given in the Appendix to Hymns Ancient & Modern 1868. 5. We pray Thee, heavenly Father. Preparation for Holy Communion. Originally written for a Communicants' class, it was included in S. P. C. K. Church Hymns, 1871, and in the revised Hymns Ancient & Modern 1875. 6. Lord, I cannot seek Thee. Spiritual Communion. Contributed to Lyra Eucharistica, 1863, and repeated in the Churchman's Altar Manual, 1882. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Coles, V. S. S., p. 242, ii. Recently additional hymns by Mr. Coles have come into common use, including:— 1. Almighty Father, Lord most high. [Holy Communion.] Written for Hymns Ancient & Modern and given in the 1904 edition, No. 264, to be sung "At the Offertory." It is admirably suited for the purpose. 2. Father, Whose love we have wrong'd by transgression. This "Litany for Lent," in Hymns Ancient & Modern 1904, No. 633, is a cento from the author's Metrical Litany, published by Novello. The Pt. ii. in Hymns Ancient & Modern begins “Christ with the twelve the last Passover keeping." 3. We pray Thee, heavenly Father, p. 242, ii., 5. This hymn, with the exception of stanza i., is entirely rewritten in The English Hymnal, 1906. 4. Ye who own the faith of Jesus. [B. V. M.] This appeared in The English Hymnal, 1906, for "St. Mary the Virgin.” --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Christopher Smart

1722 - 1771 Person Name: Christopher Smart, 1722-1771 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Martyrs Author of "Hearken to the anthem glorious" in The Hymnal 1982 Smart, Christophe, M.A., was born at Shipburn, Kent, in 1722, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he gained the Seatonian prize for five years, four of which were in succession, (B.A. 1747.) He removed to London in 1753, and gave some attention to literature: but neglecting both his property and his constitution, he became poor and insane. He died in the King's Bench, 1771. His Poems were published in 2 vols. in 1771. From that work "Father of light conduct my feet" (Divine Guidance), and "I sing of God the mighty Source" [God the Author of All), have been taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)