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Henry Baker
1835 - 1910 Person Name: H. Baker, Mus. Bac. Composer of "HESPERUS" in Worship Song Henry Baker, Mus. Bac., son of the Rev. James Baker, Chancellor of the diocese of Durham; born at Nuneham, Oxfordshire; educated at Winchester School; graduated Bachelor in Music at the University of Oxford in 1867. He also worked as a civil engineer.
Scottish Church Music, its composers and sources by James Love; William Blackwwod and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1891
Henry Baker
George Hews
1806 - 1873 Person Name: Geo. Hews Composer of "HOLLEY" in The Christian Hymnal Born: January 6, 1806, Weston, Massachusetts.
Died: July 6, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts.
George Hews
Henvy Virtue Tebbs
1797 - 1876 Person Name: H. V. Tebbs Author of "Come to me, Lord, when first I wake" in Worship Song Tebbs, Henry Virtue, was born in Chelsea in 1797. He was a Proctor in Doctors' Commons, and joined in establishing the first Sunday School in Chelsea. Most of his later years were spent on the Continent, mostly at Pegli, near Genoa, and where, mainly through his exertions, a Church for the English congregation was erected and where he died Nov. 27, 1876. (Record, Dec. 23,1876.) His hymn "Come to me, Lord, when first I wake" (Morning) was written for his wife's birthday, March 16, 1851, and circulated in MS. for some years. In 1866 it was printed in the N. Y. Hours at Home, and then in the Hymnal Companion and other collections. It has been translated into 17 languages, and has also been embossed for the blind.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Henvy Virtue Tebbs
M. L. McPhail
Author of "Come to me, Lord, when first I wake" in Songs of Saving Power
M. L. McPhail
Charles Venn Pilcher
1879 - 1961 Person Name: Bishop C. Venn Pilcher Composer of "OXFORD" in The Book of Common Praise Pilcher, Charles Venn. (Oxford, June 4, 1879--July 4, 1961, Sydney, Australia). Anglican. Grandnephew of Charlotte Elliott. Hertford College, Oxford, B.A., 1902; M.A., 1905; B.D., 1909; D.D., 1921. Curacies at Birmingham, 1903-1905; St. James, Toronto, 1910-1916; taught theology at Auckland Castle, England, 1905-1906, and at Wycliffe College, Toronto, 1916-1936. Elected coadjutor bishop of Sydney, Australia, at the instance of a former Wycliffe colleague, Archbishop Mowll. He composed hymn tunes and other music, and long played bass clarinet in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Also, he translated and published much devotional material from Iceland, notably Iceland Christian Classics (1950). These side interests, like his hymn writing, merely served to heighten and deepen his effectiveness and influence as a teacher.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
Charles Venn Pilcher
