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Herbert Stephen Irons

1834 - 1905 Person Name: H. S. Irons Arranger of "[The Christmas bells are ringing Peals of joy]" in Carols Old and Carols New Born: January 19, 1834, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: June 29, 1905, Nottingham, England. Irons was a nephew of the brothers Stephen & George Elvey. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under T. E. Jones. After studying music under Stephen Elvey at Oxford, he was appointed organist at St. Columba’s College, a large public school at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. He stayed there only a few months before being offered the position of organist at Southwell Minister. From Southwell, he went to Chester as assistant organist to Frederic Gunton. Three years later, he accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s Church, Nottingham, where he remained until his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch
Herbert Stephen Irons

G. P. Grantham

1833 - 1933 Author of "The Christmas Bells" Born: Circa 1833, London, Middlesex, England. Christened: February 24, 1833, St. John the Baptist Church, Shoreditch, London. As of 1881, Grantham was Vicar of Llanbaddock, Wales. Some of his work appeared in Carols for Use in Church, by Richard Chope (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1894). --www.hymntime.com/tch/
G. P. Grantham

Charles H. Sunderland

Person Name: Chas. H. Sunderland Composer of "[The Christmas bells are ringing]" in Carols Old and Carols New
Charles H. Sunderland

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