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Composer of "[For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee]" in The Cyber Hymnal 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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Martin Shaw
1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw, 1875 - 1958 Arranger of "CORMAC" in The Book of Praise Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music.
Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915).
Bert Polman
Martin Shaw
Charles Silvester Horne
1865 - 1914 Person Name: Charles Silvester Home, 1865-1914 Author of "For the might of Your arm we bless You" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Charles Silvester Horne (1865–1914) was a famous late 19th century and early 20th century Congregationalist minister, who additionally served as Liberal M.P. for Ipswich, and was a noted orator. He was also the father of the humorous broadcaster, Kenneth Horne.
He was born in Cuckfield, Sussex on 15 April 1865, the youngest child of Charles Horne, the minister of Cuckfield Congregational Church, and his wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Silvester Simpson. When he was six weeks old the family moved to Newport, Shropshire. Here Charles Horne gave up the ministry, becoming the editor of the local newspaper, the Newport Advertiser and became a partner of his wife's uncle, Charles Silvester in a printing and bookselling firm. Horne lived the rest of his childhood in the town, and was educated at Adams' Grammar School, where his headmaster was a Mr. Tom Collins. His father's newspaper was very much a family business, and every member of the family helped with it at some point. The family at this time attended the Newport Congregational Chapel, which is described by Horne's biographer as "The most considerable Nonconformist place of worship in the town." It was through this church that Horne first began to preach, and his thoughts turned towards the Congregational ministry.
He graduated MA from Glasgow University in 1886 and subsequently studied Theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he was in the first intake of students at the new Congregational college, before beginning his working life as Minister of Kensington Chapel. During this period he married Katharine, the eldest daughter of Lord Cozens Hardy, Master of the Rolls from 1907 until 1918.
His fame as a preacher and author grew after he took over the Whitefield's Church, Tottenham Court Road, writing hymns which are still sung today. From 1910 until his death he had a national platform for his views as an MP.
In 1914, while on holiday in Canada, returning from Niagara Falls, he was suddenly taken ill travelling on a steamer and died, aged forty-nine, before arriving at Toronto. His body was taken home and buried at Church Stretton, Shropshire, in the cemetery at Cunnery Road. Tributes poured in and his memorial service was attended by David Lloyd George. His wife and children were to outlive him by over half a century, his youngest daughter living until 1984. One of his grandchildren, Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon, was Bishop of Portsmouth from 1975 to 1984.
--en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
Charles Silvester Horne
John Haynes Holmes
1879 - 1964 Person Name: John Haynes Holmes, 1879-1964 Author of "The Voice of God Is Calling" in Worship Supplement Born: November 29, 1879, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died: April 3, 1964, New York City.
Buried: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, New York City.
Holmes graduated from Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa. His grandfather, John Cummings Haynes, manager of the Oliver Ditson music publishing house, helped pay his Harvard tuition. Holmes was ordained in 1904, and became minister of the Unitarian Third Congregational Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts. In February 1907, he became junior minister at the Church of the Messiah in New York City. His works include:
I Speak for Myself, 1959
Collected Hymns, 1960
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
John Haynes Holmes
