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Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Composer of "HAPPY MEETING" in Songs for the Service of Prayer 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.
Anonymous
T. Bilby
1794 - 1872 Person Name: Thomas Bilby Author of "O that will be joyful" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Bilby, Thomas , son of John Bilby, born at Southampton, April 18, 1794. In 1809 he joined the army, remaining eight years. Subsequently he studied the Infant School System under Buchanan, whose school at Brewer's Green, Westminster, is said to have been the first Infants' School opened in England. In 1825 he obtained the charge of a Training School at Chelsea, where some 500 teachers were instructed in his system. In 1832 he proceeded to the West Indies, where he introduced his system of teaching. On returning to England, he became the parish clerk of St. Mary's, Islington. He died Sept. 24, 1872. He was one of the founders of "The Home and Colonial Infant School Society." Jointly with Mr. R. B. Ridgway he published The Nursery Book,The Infant Teacher's Assistant, 1831-32; and the Book of Quadrupeds , 1838. His hymns appeared in The Infant Teacher's Assistant, the best known of which is, "Here we suffer grief and pain."
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
T. Bilby
Samuel Ashmead
1801 - 1900 Composer of "[Here we suffer grief and pain]" in The Cyber Hymnal
Samuel Ashmead
John R. Clements
1868 - 1946 Author of "Yes, Heaven Is Joyful" in Songs of Praise John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
John R. Clements
Owen F. Pugh
1867 - 1920 Person Name: O. F. P. Arranger of "[Grief and pain our portion here]" in Songs of Praise
Owen F. Pugh
James Hughes
1779 - 1844 Person Name: Parch James Hughes, Llundain Translator of "Yma cur a blinder gawn (Here we suffer grief and pain)" in Cân a Mawl James Hughes (Iago Trichrug), Llundain, 1779-1844.
Information from Welsh Biography Online from The National Library of Wales, and Swansea University Library Catalog.
James Hughes
