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Charles Steggall

1826 - 1905 Person Name: C. Steggall Topics: Youth and School Life Carols Composer of "[Like silver lamps in a distant shrine]" in The Church Hymnal

John E. Roe

1838 - 1871 Person Name: J. E. Roe Topics: Youth and School Life Composer of "GENTLE JESUS" in The Church Hymnal

Berthold Tours

1838 - 1897 Person Name: B. Tours Topics: Youth and School Life Carols Composer of "[Saw you never, in the twilight]" in The Church Hymnal

1836 - 1901 Person Name: J. Farmer Topics: Youth and School Life Carols Composer of "[In the field with their flocks abiding]" in The Church Hymnal Born: August 16, 1835, Nottingham, England. Died: July 17, 1901, at his home in Oxford, England. Buried: St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford, England. Eldest child of butcher John Farmer and milliner Mary Blackshaw Farmer, John learned to play the piano, violin, and harp when young. He was apprenticed to his uncle Henry Farmer, an organist, composer, and music teacher with a music and musical instrument business in Nottingham. At age 14, John went to study at the Leipzig Conservatory, then three years later under Andreas Spaeth in Coburg for a year. He returned to England in 1853, and entered his father’s lace business. After his mother’s death in 1856, he went to Zürich, Switzerland, where he taught music. He returned to England again in 1861, and became music master of Harrow School in 1864, staying there until 1885. He then accepted an invitation to become organist at at Balliol College, Oxford, where he founded the Balliol Concerts. During his career, Farmer composed oratorios, cantatas, church music, chamber music and numerous school songs, especially for Harrow School. One of his best known compositions was "Forty Years On," which he wrote at Harrow in 1872. While at Balliol, he composed Warwick School’s first school song, "Here’s a Song For All", in 1892. His other works include: Cinderella The oratorio Christ and His Soldiers The cricketing song "Willow the King" Music: FARMER © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Charlotte Alington Barnard

1830 - 1869 Person Name: C. A. Barnard Topics: Youth and School Life Composer of "PILGRIMAGE" in The Church Hymnal Mrs. Charles Barnard, usage: Claribel. See also Claribel, 1830-1869

Christopher Edwin Willing

1830 - 1904 Person Name: C. E. Willing Topics: Youth and School Life; Youth and School Life Composer of "ALSTONE" in The Church Hymnal Christopher Edwin Willing; Devon, England, 1830 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Richard R. Chope

1830 - 1928 Person Name: R. R. Chope Topics: Youth and School Life Carols Author of "Wake and sing, good Christians" in The Church Hymnal Chope, Richard Robert, M.A., born Sept. 21, 1830, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A., 1855, and took Holy Orders as Curate of Stapleton, 1856. During his residence at Stapleton the necessities of the Choir led him to plan his Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, published in 1857. In 1858 he took the Curacy of Sherborne, Dorset; in the following year that of Upton Scudamore, where he undertook the training of the Chorus of the Warminster district for the first Choral Festival in Salisbury Cathedral; and in 1861 that of Brompton. The enlarged edition of The Congregational Hymn Book was published 1862, and The Canticles, Psalter, &c, of the Prayer Book, Noted and Pointed, during the same year. In 1865 he was preferred to the parish of St. Augustine's, Queen's Gate, South Kensington, and subsequently published Carols for Use in Church during Christmas and Epiphany, 1875; Carols for Easier and Other Tides, 1887; and other works. Mr. Chope has been one of the leaders in the revival and reform of Church Music as adapted to the Public Services. He was one of the originators of The Choir and Musical Record, and was for some time the proprietor and assistant editor of the Literary Churchman. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Georg Christoph Strattner

1644 - 1704 Person Name: C. G. Strattner Topics: Youth and School Life Composer of "POSEN" in The Church Hymnal Georg Christoph Strattner; b. about 1650, in Hungary; d. 1704-5 in Weimar Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Frederick W. Farrar

1831 - 1903 Person Name: F. H. Farrar Topics: Youth and School Life Carols Author of "Glory to God in the highest" in The Church Hymnal Farrar, Frederic William, D.D., son of the Rev. Charles Penhorn Farrar, sometime a missionary in India, and late Rector of Sidcup, Kent. He was born at Bombay, Aug. 7th, 1831; and educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at King's College, London. In 1850 he obtained a classical exhibition, and in 1852 a scholarship at the University of London, whence, after taking the degree of B.A., he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge. There, in 1852, he took (with other prizes) the Chancellor's Prize in English verse, and graduated in first-class classical honours in 1854. In the same year he entered Holy Orders, and was subsequently for some time an assistant master at Harrow School. In 1871 he was appointed to the head mastership of Marlborough College, which he held until 1876, when he was nominated a Canon of Westminster Abbey and Rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He had previously been chosen Select Preacher before the University of Cambridge in 1868, and again in 1874, 1875, and Hulsean Lecturer in 1870. He was also appointed in 1869 a Chaplain to the Queen, and in 1883, Archdeacon of Westminster. Archdeacon Farrar has achieved a high reputation both as a writer and a preacher. He is the author of some volumes of fiction for the young which soon attained great popularity, as well as of several important works in the departments of philology and theology. Of the latter, his Life of Christ and Life and Work of St. Paul are the best known. As a preacher, Archdeacon Farrar stands in the first rank as a master of graceful eloquence. His contributions to hymnody include, "Father, before Thy throne of light," "God and Father, great and holy," and a beautiful carol, "In the fields with their flocks abiding." [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Farrar, F. W. , p. 365, ii. Dr. Farrar became Dean of Canterbury in 1895, and died at Canterbury, March 22, 1903. His Life, &c, by his son, was published in 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

J. Erskine Clarke

1827 - 1920 Person Name: J. E. Clark Topics: Youth and School Life Younger Children Author of "Jesus, high in glory" in The Church Hymnal John Erskine Clarke (1827–1920) was a British clergyman who issued the first parish magazine. He established several other religious publications and was responsible for founding churches schools and hospitals in Battersea. He also competed at Henley Royal Regatta. See also in: Wikipedia