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Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1810 - 1876 Composer of "WELLS (Wesley)" Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him.
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Henry Elliott Fox
1841 - 1926 Person Name: H. E. Fox (b. 1841) Author of "Send forth the Gospel! Let it run" in A Missionary Hymn Book Fox, Henry Elliott, M.A., son of Henry Watson Fox, born at Masulipatam, S. India, on Oct. 21, 1841, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. (3rd class Cl. Trip.) 1864; M.A. 1869. Ordained in 1869, he was Curate of St. Ebbe, Oxford, 1869-73; Vicar of Christ Ch., Westminster, 1873-82, and of St. Nicholas, Durham, 1882-1895. From 1895 he has been Hon. Sec. of the C.M.S. He is also Commiss. for Uganda (1890), and Mombasa (1900). His deep interest in Foreign Missions is well known. He became a Preb. of St. Paul's in 1901. His hymns in common use include the following:—
1. 0 King of glory, God of grace. [Foreign Missions.] Written in 1899 for the centenary of the C.M.S., and included in the Church Missionary Society Hymn Book of the same year.
2. Send forth the Gospel! Let it run. [Foreign Missions.] Contributed to the C. M. H. Book, 1899, and repeated in Hymns of Consecration and Faith, 1902.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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