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Henry Twells
1823 - 1900 Person Name: Henry Twells, 1823-1900 Author of "At Evening When the Sun Had Set" in The Covenant Hymnal Twells, Henry, M.A., was born in 1823, and educated at St. Peter's College, Cambridge. B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851. Taking Holy Orders in 1849, he was successively Curate of Great Berkhamsted, 1849-51; Sub-Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, 1851-54; Master of St. Andrew's House School, Mells, Somerset, 1854-56; and Head Master of Godolphin School, Hammersmith, 1856-70. In 1870 he was preferred to the Rectory of Baldock, Herts, and in 1871 to that of Waltham-on-the Wolds. He was Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1873-74, and became an Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral in 1884. Canon Twells is best known by his beautiful evening hymn, "At even ere the sun was set." He also contributed the following hymns to the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern:—
1. Glorious is Thy Name, O Lord. The Name of God.
2. Know ye the Lord hath borne away? Ascension.
3. Not for our sins alone. Plea for Divine Mercy.
4. The voice of God's Creation found me. The Word of God a Light.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Twells, H., p. 1189, i. Canon Twells was born on March 13, 1823, at Ashted, Birmingham, and died at Bournemouth, Jan. 19, 1900. His Memoir, by W. Clavell Ingram, D.D., was published in 1901. His Hymns and other Stray Verses, appeared in 1901i. From it the following additional hymns have come into common use:—
1. Spirit of Truth and Might, 'Tis Thou alone can teach. [Our Words.] On "The Responsibility of Speech," p. 26. In the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
2. The day of Pentecost is fully come. [Whitsuntide.] Usually the second stanza is taken as the opening of this hymn. In this form it is given as "Awake, 0 Lord, as in the days of old," in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1904, the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and other collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Henry Twells
Georg Joseph
1630 - 1668 Person Name: Georg Joseph, 1657-? Composer of "ANGELUS" in The Covenant Hymnal Born: Probably circa 1630, Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland).
Died: Circa 1668.
A musician in the service of the Prince-Bishop of Breslau in last half of the 17th Century, Joseph collaborated published five hymn volumes with Johann Scheffler.
Sources
Erickson, p. 325
Stulken, p. 218
Music: ANGELUS
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Georg Joseph
