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John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Composer of "PAX DEI" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Bert Polman
John Bacchus Dykes
Frederick C. Atkinson
1841 - 1896 Person Name: Frederick C. Atkinson, 1841-1897 Composer of "MORECAMBE" in The Hymnal Born: August 21, 1841, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Died: November 30, 1896, East Dereham, Norfolk, England. As a boy Atkinson was a chorister and assistant organist at Norwich Cathedral. In 1867 he graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Cambridge and then served as organist and choirmaster in St. Luke's Church, Manningham, Bradford. He also held that position at Norwich Cathedral and at St. Mary's Parish Church in Lewisham. Atkinson wrote hymn tunes, anthems, and complete Anglican services, as well as songs and piano pieces.
Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988
Frederick C. Atkinson
Emily Taylor
1795 - 1872 Person Name: E. Taylor Author of "God of the changing year, whose arm of power" in The Hymnal Taylor, Emily, born 1795, was the daughter of Samuel Taylor, of New Buckenham, Norfolk, niece of John Taylor, of Norwich, the hymnwriter, and great grand-daughter of Dr. John Taylor, the Hebraist. Miss Taylor was the writer of numerous tales for children, chiefly historical, and of various books of instruction, and of descriptive natural history. Amongst her publications are:—
(1) Letters to a Child on Maritime Discovery, 1820; (2) Vision of Las Casas, and other Poems, 1825; (3) Poetical Illustrations of Passages of Scripture, 1826 ; (4) Tales of the Saxons, 1832; (5) Tales of the English, 1833; (6) Memoir of Sir T. More, 1834; (7) The Boy and the Birds, 1835. She also edited Sabbath Recreations, 1826; and Flowers and Fruit in Old English Gardens, 1836; and contributed to the Magnet Stories, 1860, &c.; and the Rainbow Stories, 1870, &c.
Miss Taylor wrote several hymns, which appeared as follows:—To the Unitarian Collection of Psalms & Hymns, printed for the Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool, 1818, she contributed anonymously:—
1. Come to the house of prayer. Invitation to Public Worship. Sometimes given as "O come to the house of Prayer."
2. God of the changing year Whose arm of power. Lessons of the Changing Year.
3. O Father, though the anxious fear. Sunday.
4. O here, if ever, God of love. Holy Communion.
These, and the following 6 hymns, were given anonymously in the 2nd ed. of the Norwich Unitarian Hymn Book, 1826:—
5. Here, Lord, when at Thy Table met. Holy Communion.
6. O not for these alone I pray. Holy Communion. Sometimes, "No, not for these alone I pray."
7. The Gospel is the light. Worth and Power of the Gospel. Sometimes “It is the one true light."
8. Thus shalt thou love the Almighty God [Lord] . Self-consecration to God.
9. Who shall behold the King of kings? Purity.
10. Who that o'er many a barren part. Missions. Sometimes it begins with st. ii., "Thy kingdom come! The heathen lands."
Of the above No. 6 is part of a longer poem which was given in her Poetical Illustrations of Passages of Scripture, 1826. This work also contains:—
11. O Source of good! around me spread. Seek, and ye shall find.
12. Truly the light of morn is sweet. Early Piety.
13. When summer suns their radiance fling. Resignation with Praise.
In the Rev. J. R. Beard's Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship, 1837, several of the above are repeated, and also:—
14. If love, the noblest, purest, best. Communion with Jesus.
Of these 14 hymns 10 are in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1840, and 9 in his Hymns, &c, 1873. Several are also found in other collections, as Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1881, and some American and other hymn-books. Although for the greater part of her life Miss Taylor was a Unitarian, latterly, under the influence of F. D. Maurice, she joined the Church of England She died in 1872. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Emily Taylor
Daniel Hughes
Person Name: D. H. Translator of "Duw ein blynyddoedd, Ti â braich dy nerth (God of the changing year, whose arm of power)" in Mawl a chân = praise and song
Daniel Hughes
