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Lee Hastings Bristol

1923 - 1979 Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer of "PERRINE" Born: 1923, Brooklyn, New York. Died: 1979, Syracuse, New York. Bristol was educated at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (BA); Trinity College of Music, London (organ studies); and the Institute for International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (graduate studies). He worked in New York for the Bristol-Meyers Company (the family business) in advertising and public relations, 1948-62. From 1962-69, he served as president of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey. In 1972, the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada made him a fellow of the society. His works include: The Lamb and Other Carols, 1951 Songs for Liturgy, editor More Hymns and Spiritual Songs, editor, 1972 Hymns for Children and Grown-Ups Lyrics: "Let Us Now Depart in Thy Peace" Music: SEDGWICK --hymntime.com/tch/

Henry G Trembath

1844 - 1908 Person Name: Henry G. Trembath Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer of "ROSMORE" in The Hymnal

Frederick Alexander Mann

1844 - 1903 Person Name: Frederick A. Mann Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer (attributed to) of "VESPER (Mann)" See his obituary in The Musical Herald, May 1, 1903. The hymnal Hymns of Prayer and Praise (1921) confirms these birth and death dates, in addition to his composing hymn tunes as listed here. Not to be confused with Frederick Mann, 1846-1928. --Tina Schneider, 01 July 2014. ======================= Mr. F. A. Mann was the musical director of the children’s Home at Victoria Park. He possessed a find conception for music; he gave a “reading” and interpretation to everything he touched, even to a children’s hymn. He composed but little; probably his reserve in this respect was due to his high ideals and his reverence for the great masters. For nineteen years F. A. Mann practiced the musical profession at Lowestoft. Here he was organist successively of the Parish Church of St. Margaret, and of the church at Kirkley. His power as a choir-trainer was soon discovered by other churches, including nonconformists, and by the help of deputies he managed to train three or four choirs abreast. For fourteen years he devoted himself to training the choir of children belonging to the Children’s Home. Mr. Mann understood children; his poetic musical instinct drew forth their powers; he interested them and they needed no spur. Excerpt from The Musical Herald, Issues 658-669 (1903) By John Spencer Curwen

Harold Green

1871 - 1930 Person Name: H. Green (1871-1930) Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer of "QUIETUDE" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Born: October 23, 1871, Helme, York, England. Died: December 20, 1930, Malenge Farm, Umzimkalu, Cape Province, South Africa. Englishman Harold Green was a pastor’s son. He served with the South Africa General Mission in Pondoland, a region on the eastern coast of South Africa. In 1920, when another missionary, Emily May Grimes Crawford wrote a hymn called "The Quiet Hour," Green provided the tune for it. --wordwisehymns.com/2010/12/20/

S. Curtis Tufts

Meter: 6.5.6.5 Author of "Christ, within Us Hidden" in More Voices

Frances Weld Danielson

Meter: 6.5.6.5 Author of "Little birds are flying" in The Beacon Song and Service book

William Watkins Reid

1890 - 1983 Person Name: William W. Reid, 1890- Meter: 6.5.6.5 Author of "God of Earth and Planets" in Hymnal of the Church of God Reid, William Watkins, Sr. (Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, October 15, 1890--February 18, 1983, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania). Methodist. Parents were William Reid, a native of Moneymore, near Belfast, and Sarah Watkins of Londonderry. Came to the United States in 1900. Attended New York University (bachelor's degree, 1915; master's degree in journalism, 1917). Served The Hymn Society as President, Executive Director, and Editor of The Hymn from 1966 to 1976. Authored the Hymn Society's 40th anniversary history, Sing with Spirit and Understanding. Also edited The Pastor's Journal for the Methodist church and worked as its director of the News Service of the Board of Missions. Also: Caulfield, Benjamin. --From DNAH Archives ============================== William Watkins Reid, of Whitestone, Long Island, was president of the Hymn Society of America from 1942 to 1945, and is now a member of its Executive Committee. Used the title of "My God is There, Controlling," the Society has published 65 of his hymns, and several others were published in the Society's "searches", for new hymns. He is the author of the Society's history of its first forty years, and also of the added period of ten years (1962-1972). --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Ann Dante

Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer of "[We must work for Jesus]"

Laura J. Hutton

Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer of "WARFARE" in The Book of Common Praise

Richard Storrs Willis

1819 - 1900 Meter: 6.5.6.5 Composer of "[Through thy protecting care]" Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, notably of hymn music. One of his hymns is "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1850), with lyrics by Edmund Sears. He was also a music critic and journal editor. Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841. Willis then went to Germany, where he studied six years under Xavier Schnyder and Moritz Hauptmann. While there, he became a personal friend of Felix Mendelssohn. After returning to America, Willis served as music critic for the New York Tribune, The Albion, and The Musical Times, for which he served as editor for a time. He joined the New-York American-Music Association, an organization which promoted the work native of naturalized American composers. He reviewed the organization's first concert for their second season, held December 30, 1856, in the Musical World, as a "creditable affair, all things considered". Willis began his own journal, Once a Month: A Paper of Society, Belles-Lettres and Art, and published its first issue in January 1862. Willis died on May 7, 1900. His interment was located at Woodlawn Cemetery. His works and music compilations include: Church Chorals and Choir Studies (1850) Our Church Music (1856) Waif of Song (1876) Pen and Lute (1883) --en.wikipedia.org