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Vikki Cook
Author of "Before the Throne of God Above" in Baptist Hymnal 2008 Vikki Cook is a songwriter who has collaborated with her husband Steve on dozens of songs. She is also a vocalist and has been featured on number of albums. She also is a choir director and gives piano and voice lessons. Vikki and her husband live in the Louisville area and are part of Sovereign Grace Church. She has two daughters.
Dianne Shapiro
Vikki Cook
Paul Leddington Wright
b. 1951 Person Name: Paul Leddington Wright, b. 1951 Arranger of "BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD ABOVE" in Singing the Faith
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Charitie Lees Smith
1841 - 1923 Person Name: Charitie Lees Bancroft Author of "Before the Throne of God Above" in Baptist Hymnal 2008 Bancroft, Charitie Lees, née Smith, daughter of the Rev. Sidney Smith, D.D., Rector of Drumragh, County Tyrone, Ireland; was born at Bloomfield, Merrion, in the county of Dublin, June 21,1841; and married, in 1869, to Arthur E. Bancroft. Her hymns have appeared in periodicals, Lyra Britannica, Bishop Ryle's Spiritual Songs, and other collections, and also as leaflets. The following have come into common usage:—
1. O for the [a] robes [robe] of whiteness. Heaven desired. This favorite children's hymn was 1st pub. as a leaflet in 1860. In 1867 it was included in Lyra Britannica, and thence has passed into several collections in Great Britain and America.
2. The King of glory standeth. Christ the Saviour. Contributed in 7 stanzas of 8 1ines to the Lyra Britannica, 1867, and entitled "Mighty to save." In the Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, No. 1196, it begins with stanza iii., "He comes in bloodstained garments."
3. Before the throne of God above. The Advocate. Dated 1863, and given in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1806, Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884.
In 1867 Mrs. Bancroft's hymns were collected and published as Within the Veil, by C. L. S.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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De Chenez, Charitie L. [Bancroft] née Smith, widow of Arthur Bancroft, p. 109, ii., is by a second marriage Mrs. De Chenez.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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She was apparently widowed twice. She died in Oakland, California, in 1923, at the age of 82, bearing the name Charitie de Cheney (or Chenez) - Dianne Shapiro
Charitie Lees Smith
Anonymous
Translator of "Before the Throne of God Above (Ante el gran trono celestial)" in Santo, Santo, Santo In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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Marnie Barrell
b. 1952 Person Name: Marnie Barrell, b. 1952 Author of "We do not hope to ease our minds" in Singing the Faith Marnie Barrell is a hymn writer and piano teacher living in Christchurch, New Zealand and teaching at Christchurch School of Music.
Dianne Shapiro, from Christchurch School of Music website (http://www.csm.org.nz/about/staff/) and Barrell's Facebook page (accessed 10/30/2017
Marnie Barrell
