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John Darwall

1732 - 1789 Person Name: Parch. J. Darwell Hymnal Number: 79 Composer of "DARWELL" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr John Darwall (b. Haughton, Staffordshire, England, 1731; d. Walsall, Staffordshire, England, 1789) The son of a pastor, he attended Manchester Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, England (1752-1756). He became the curate and later the vicar of St. Matthew's Parish Church in Walsall, where he remained until his death. Darwall was a poet and amateur musician. He composed a soprano tune and bass line for each of the 150 psalm versifications in the Tate and Brady New Version of the Psalms of David (l696). In an organ dedication speech in 1773 Darwall advocated singing the "Psalm tunes in quicker time than common [in order that] six verses might be sung in the same space of time that four generally are." Bert Polman

Frederick G. Baker

1839 - 1919 Person Name: F. G. Baker Hymnal Number: 231 Composer of "ST. SAVIOR" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Frederick George Baker was born in Shorwell, Isle of Wight on May 19, 1839. Served at St. Saviour’s Church, Shanklin, for almost 30 years. He died in Shaklin, Isle of Wight on March 10, 1919. NN

A. Ewing

1830 - 1895 Person Name: Alexander Ewing Hymnal Number: 7 Composer of "EWING" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Alexander C (Rex) Ewing United Kingdom 1830-1895. Born at Aberdeen,Scotland, he studied music and German at Heidelberg University and law in Aberdeen. However, he did not qualify as a lawyer. A member of the Aberdeen Harmonic Choir and the Hadyn Society of Aberdeen, he was regarded as the most talented young musician in the city. He became an author, musician, editor, composer, and translator. He married Juliana Horatia Gatty in 1867. She died in 1885, and he remarried Elizabeth Margaret Cumby in 1886. He was a career officer in the British Army's Commissariat Department and subsequently the Army Pay Corps. He served at Constantinople during the Crimean War, thereafter in China for six years, then in Ireland during the Fenian Uprising. He was then in New Brunswick just after England created the British North American Act, creating the Dominion of Canada. He then went to Fredericton, where he played the organ and sang at Christ Church Cathedral. He was transferred to Aldershot. In 1879 he went to Malta, then served in Ceylon before returning to England. He reached the rank of Lt. Col. He translated several works by other authors. He retired and spent the last six years of his life in Taunton, England, where he died. John Perry

David Emlyn Evans

1843 - 1913 Person Name: D. Emlyn Evans Hymnal Number: 66 Composer of "TREWEN" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Born: September 21, 1843, Penralltwen, near Castellnewydd Emlyn (Castle Emlyn), Carmarthenshire, Wales. Died: January 19, 1913, Cemmaes, Montgomeryshire. Buried: Llandyfriog (near Newcastle Emlyn), Wales. Evans was a composer, adjudicator, conductor, editor, critic, music historian and entrepreneur. Frequently irascible, especially in his last years which he spent in severe and immobilizing pain, he was one of the foremost figures in Welsh musical life in the period leading up to World War I. He was self taught, via the most popular of all Welsh music publications, John Mills’ Gramadeg Cerddoriaeth, and the two parts of Thomas Williams’ Ceinion Cerddoriaeth (Musical Gems, 1852) with its 200 hymn tunes and seventy anthems and choruses. Later, formal lessons by a music teacher, Mr. Hughes of Llechryd, a few miles from his home, gave him a firmer grounding in the old notation used until 1858. The same year, in Bridgend, he sang his first song in public, conducted his first choir and won his first prize for composition. In 1863 he moved to Cheltenham, where he worked as a shop assistant and received further lessons in piano and organ. He became a commercial traveler in 1871, and traveled in this capacity for the next 20 years the length and breadth of Wales, making contacts and observing the growth of music throughout Wales. It was probably during his overnight stays in hotels that most of his musical compositions were created at the end of his working day. Throughout this period, 66 of his pieces won prizes in competitions in Wales, England and America. Evans’s works include: Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol, 1895 (editor) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Charles H. Purday

1799 - 1885 Person Name: C. H. Purday Hymnal Number: 16 Composer of "SANDON" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Charles H. Purday (1799-1885) A publisher, composer, lecturer, and writer, Purday had a special interest in church music. He published Crown Court Psalmody (1854), Church and Home Metrical Psalter and Hymnal (1860), which included SANDON, and, with Frances Havergal, Songs of Peace and Joy (1879). A precentor in the Scottish Church in Crown Court, London, Purday sang at the coronation of Queen Victoria. In the publishing field he is known as a strong proponent of better copyright laws to protect the works of authors and publishers. Bert Polman

Henry Baker

1835 - 1910 Person Name: H. Baker Hymnal Number: 214 Composer of "WHITBURN" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Henry Baker, Mus. Bac., son of the Rev. James Baker, Chancellor of the diocese of Durham; born at Nuneham, Oxfordshire; educated at Winchester School; graduated Bachelor in Music at the University of Oxford in 1867. He also worked as a civil engineer. Scottish Church Music, its composers and sources by James Love; William Blackwwod and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1891

Charles Francis Lloyd

1852 - 1917 Person Name: C. Francis Lloyd Hymnal Number: 223 Composer of "CONSTANCE" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr

T. Bilby

1794 - 1872 Hymnal Number: 124 Composer of "JOYFUL" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Bilby, Thomas , son of John Bilby, born at Southampton, April 18, 1794. In 1809 he joined the army, remaining eight years. Subsequently he studied the Infant School System under Buchanan, whose school at Brewer's Green, Westminster, is said to have been the first Infants' School opened in England. In 1825 he obtained the charge of a Training School at Chelsea, where some 500 teachers were instructed in his system. In 1832 he proceeded to the West Indies, where he introduced his system of teaching. On returning to England, he became the parish clerk of St. Mary's, Islington. He died Sept. 24, 1872. He was one of the founders of "The Home and Colonial Infant School Society." Jointly with Mr. R. B. Ridgway he published The Nursery Book,The Infant Teacher's Assistant, 1831-32; and the Book of Quadrupeds , 1838. His hymns appeared in The Infant Teacher's Assistant, the best known of which is, "Here we suffer grief and pain." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edward Stephen

1822 - 1885 Person Name: E. Stephen Hymnal Number: 71 Composer of "TANYMARIAN" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Also Edward Tanymarian, or simply Tanymarian.

John Jones

1796 - 1857 Person Name: Parch. J. Jones Hymnal Number: 4 Composer of "TAN Y CASTELL" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr See also in: Wikipedia Also known as John Jones, Talysarn