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Robert Grant
1779 - 1838 Person Name: Robert Grant, 1780-1838 Author of "From Olivet's Sequestered Seats" in The Cyber Hymnal Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts).
Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where he sponsored a bill to remove civil restrictions on Jews. Grant was knighted in 1834. His hymn texts were published in the Christian Observer (1806-1815), in Elliot’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and posthumously by his brother as Sacred Poems (1839).
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Grant, Sir Robert, second son of Mr. Charles Grant, sometime Member of Parliament for Inverness, and a Director of the East India Company, was born in 1785, and educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1806. Called to the English Bar in 1807, he became Member of Parliament for Inverness in 1826; a Privy Councillor in 1831; and Governor of Bombay, 1834. He died at Dapoorie, in Western India, July 9, 1838. As a hymnwriter of great merit he is well and favourably known. His hymns, "O worship the King"; "Saviour, when in dust to Thee"; and "When gathering clouds around I view," are widely used in all English-speaking countries. Some of those which are less known are marked by the same graceful versification and deep and tender feeling. The best of his hymns were contributed to the Christian Observer, 1806-1815, under the signature of "E—y, D. R."; and to Elliott's Psalms & Hymns, Brighton, 1835. In the Psalms & Hymns those which were taken from the Christian Observer were rewritten by the author. The year following his death his brother, Lord Glenelg, gathered 12 of his hymns and poems together, and published them as:— Sacred Poems. By the late Eight Hon. Sir Robert Grant. London, Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, 1839. It was reprinted in 1844 and in 1868.
This volume is accompanied by a short "Notice," dated "London, Juno 18, 1839."
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Grant, Sir R., p. 450, i. Other hymns are:—
1. From Olivet's sequester'd scats. Palm Sunday.
2. How deep the joy, Almighty Lord. Ps. lxxxiv.
3. Wherefore do the nations wage. Ps. ii.
These are all from his posthumous sacred Poems, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Robert Grant
Charles Macpherson
1870 - 1927 Person Name: Charles MacPherson Composer of "STONYPATH" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: May 10, 1870, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Died: May 28, 1927, Westminster, England.
MacPherson became a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1879. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and later served as choir master at St. Clement’s Eastcheap; organist for Sir Robert Menzies at Weem, Aberfeldy, Perthshire (1887); Madam de Falba’s chapel at Luton Hoo Park, Bedfordshire (1889); assistant organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral (1895), and organist there (1916). His works include:
The New Cathedral Psalter Chant Book, village church edition
Sources;
Frost, p. 681
West, p. 74
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macpherson_c.htm
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Charles Macpherson
A. H. Charteris
1835 - 1908 Person Name: Archibald H. Charteris Author of "Believing Fathers Oft Have Told" in The Cyber Hymnal Charteris, Archibald Hamilton, D.D., s. of John Charteris, schoolmaster, b. at Wamphray, Dumfriesshire, Dec. 13, 1835, and educated at Wamphray and Edinburgh University, B.A. 1852, D.D. 1888; LL.D. 1898; Minister successively of New Abbey, and The Park Parish, Glasgow; Moderator of the Church of Scotland 1892. Dr. Charteris was Prof. of Biblical Criticism in Edinburgh University 1868-1898. His published works include Life of Prof. James Robertson, 1863, The New Testament Scriptures, 1882, &c. His hymns include:—
Believing fathers oft have told. [Christian Brotherhood.] Written in a steamer on Lake Como, on a day's excursion in 1889. It was designed for the use of the Young Men's Guild of the Church of Scotland, of which he was the founder, and is regularly used at the chief meetings of the Guild. It was given in The Church Hymnary, 1898, No. 259, in 5 stanzas of 10 lines. Its use amongst Young Men's Guilds and Associations is extensive.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
A. H. Charteris
