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H. Harford Battley

Hymnal Number: 160 Composer of "EBBSFLEET" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

J. M. Bentley

Person Name: J. M. Bentley, Mus. Doc. Hymnal Number: 301 Composer of "SHALL WE MEET?" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

Zerubbabel Wyvill

1763 - 1837 Person Name: Wyvill Hymnal Number: 153 Composer of "EATON" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

1861 - 1947 Person Name: Alcock Hymnal Number: 192 Composer of "THE STARS AT LAST ARE SEEN" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Walter Galpin Alcock United Kingdom 1861-1947. Born at Edenbridge, Kent, England, the son of the superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Orphanage at Fortescue, Twickenham. He was musically inclined. He won a scholarship to the National Training School for Music at age 15. There, he studied composition with Arthur Sullivan and organ with Sir John Stainer. After several brief posts at Holy Trinity Sloan Street and St Margaret’s Westminster, he was appointed Organ Professor at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1893. That year he married Naomi Blanche Lucas, and they had six daughters and a son: Naomi Judith, Dorothy Grace, Constance Marjorie, Ruth Blanche, Lucy Rachel, Kathleen Stainer, and Richard. In 1896 he was assistant organist of Westminster Abbey and concurrently organist and master of the children of the Chapel Royal (1902-1916). He became organist and Master of the Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral (1916-1947). He also oversaw a strictly faithful restoration of the famous Father Willis organ. He would not allow parts of the organ being refurbished to leave the cathedral, lest an unauthorized tonal alteration might be made without his approval, but he did work with the grandson of Father Willis, Henry Willis III, to modernize the organ’s action. Alcock had the distinction of playing at the coronation of three kings: Edward VII (1902); George V (1911); and George VI (1937). Between 1917-1924 he, with Harford Lloyd, juggled the post of Director of the Madrigal Society, assisting the ageing Sir Frederick Bridge, who had been appointed in 1888. Alcock was knighted in 1933 for services to music. He was a distinguished teacher, whose published material for organ students is still thought of value. He taught several notable pupils. He had the hobby of constructing a model railway at Salisbury on which choir boys could take rides. He was said to have all his musical talent and dexterity at the organ when age 80, that he had at age 50, and with greater maturity and mellowness. He died at age 85. His funeral service was at Salisbury Cathedral. John Perry

R. Cecil

1748 - 1810 Hymnal Number: 224 Composer of "S. JOHN" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Cecil, Richard, M.A., born in London, Nov. 8, 1748, and educated at Queen's Coll., Oxford. Ordained deacon in 1776, and priest in 1777. He became the Vicar of two churches near Lewes shortly after; chaplain of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780; and Vicar of Chobham and Bisley, 1800. He died in 1810. His poem:— Cease here longer to detain me. Desiring Heaven. In 9 stanzas of 4 lines, is supposed to be addressed by a dying infant to his mother. It was written for his wife on the death of a child “only one month old, being removed at daybreak, whose countenance at the time of departure was most heavenly." It was first published in Mrs. Cecil's Memoir of him, prefixed to his Remains, 1811, and is headed “Let me go, for the day breaketh." In the American hymn-books it is usually abbreviated, as in the Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. [William T. Brooke] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

A. Edmonds Tozer

1857 - 1919 Person Name: A. E. Tozer Hymnal Number: 150 Composer of "ST. ETHELBERGA" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

Georg Peter Weimar

1734 - 1800 Person Name: P. Weimer Hymnal Number: 90 Composer of "WEIMER" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

Frederick A. J. Hervey

1846 - 1910 Person Name: Canon. F. A. J. Hervey Hymnal Number: 22a Composer of "UPTON PYNE" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Born: May 18, 1846, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Died: August 8, 1910, Norwich, England. Buried: St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Sandringham, Norfolk, England. Son of Alfred, Lord Hervey, Frederick was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1868, MA 1872). He was ordained a deacon in 1869, and priest in 1870. He served as Rector of Upton-Pyne, Devon (1876); Sandringham (1878-1907); Canon of Norwich (1897); and Domestic Chaplain to King Edward VII (1901). --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Richard Wainwright

1758 - 1825 Person Name: R. Wainwright Hymnal Number: 36 Composer of "MANCHESTER" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

Giles Farnaby

1563 - 1640 Person Name: Farnaby Hymnal Number: 137 Composer of "S. THOMAS" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Born: Circa 1563, Truro, Cornwall. Died: November 1640, London, England. Buried: November 25, 1640. Farnaby earned his BMus degree from Oxford in 1592. He is afterward recorded as living near Lincoln, and by 1611, had moved to London. He composed several dozen pieces for the keyboard, psalter, and canzonets. --www.hymntime.com/tch/