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Father, now behold us

Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

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NORTH COATES

Meter: 6.5.6.5 Appears in 61 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: T. R. Matthews (1826-1910) Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55661 17716 51133 Used With Text: Father, now behold us

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Father, now behold us

Hymnal: Church Family Worship #11 (1988) Meter: 6.5.6.5 Hymnal Title: Church Family Worship Languages: English

Father, now behold us

Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #391 (2000) Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition

Father, now behold us

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #384 (1987) Meter: 6.5.6.5 Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Topics: God's Church Christian Initiation; Trinity Sunday The Trinity Languages: English Tune Title: NORTH COATES

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Author of "Father, now behold us" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church posi­tions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Timothy R. Matthews

1826 - 1910 Person Name: T. R. Matthews (1826-1910) Hymnal Title: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Composer of "NORTH COATES" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Timothy Richard Matthews MusB United Kingdom 1826-1910. Born at Colmworth, England, son of the Colmworth rector, he attended the Bedford and Gonville Schools and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1853 he became a private tutor to the family of Rev Lord Wriothesley Russell, a canon of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he studied under organist, George Elvey, subsequently a lifelong friend. He married Margaret Mary Thompson, and they had 11 children: Norton, Mary, George, Cecil, Evelyn, Eleanor, Anne, Arthur, Wilfred, Stephen, and John. Matthews served as Curate and Curate-in-Charge of St Mary’s Church, Nottingham (1853-1869). While there, he founded the Nottingham Working Men’s Institute. He became Rector at North Coates, Lincolnshire (1869-1907). He retired in 1907 to live with his eldest son, Norton, at Tetney vicarage. He edited the “North Coates supplemental tune book” and “Village organist”. An author, arranger, and editor, he composed morning and evening services, chants, and responses, earning a reputation for simple but effective hymn tunes, writing 100+. On a request he wrote six tunes for a children’s hymnal in one day. He composed a Christmas carol and a few songs. His sons, Norton, and Arthur, were also known as hymn tune composers. He died at Tetney, Lincolnshire, England. John Perry