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George Ratcliffe Woodward

1848 - 1934 Person Name: Rev. G. R. Woodward Harmonizer of "[Ye heav'ns, uplift your voice]" in Carols Old and Carols New Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book

Lewis Hensley

1824 - 1905 Person Name: L. Hensley, 1827-1905 Author of "Thy kingdom come, O God" in Songs of Praise Hensley, Lewis, M.A., born May, 1824, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1846 he graduated as Senior Wrangler, and first Smith's Prizeman. From 1846 to 1852 he was a Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity College. Taking Holy Orders in 1851, he held successively the Curacy of Upton-with-Chalvey, Bucks; the Vicarage of Ippolyts-with-Great-Wymondly, Hertfordshire, and that of Hitchin, in the same county; Rural Dean, 1867. His works include Household Devotions; Shorter Household Devotions, &c. His hymns appeared in his Hymns for the Sundays after Trinity, London, Bell & Daldy, 1864; and Hymns for the Minor Sundays from Advent to Whitsuntide, London, Bell & Daldy, 1867. His Advent hymn, "Thy Kingdom come, O God," is from the latter of these works. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Hensley, L. , p. 511, i., was b. May 20, 1824, and d. suddenly in a railway train, near Great Eyburgh, Norfolk, Aug. 1, 1905. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw (1875-1958) Harmonizer of "O MENTES PERFIDAS" in The Summit Choirbook 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

Ronald Arbuthnot Knox

1888 - 1957 Person Name: Ronald Knox (1888-1957) Translator (sts. 1, 2, 5) of "What fairer light is this than time itself doth own" in The Summit Choirbook UK

Elpis

470 - 504 Person Name: Elphis (d. 493) Author (attributed to) of "What fairer light is this than time itself doth own" in The Summit Choirbook Elpis, first wife of the celebrated philosopher Boethius, was the daughter of Festus, Consul at Rome, 472, and sister of the mother of St. Placidus, a disciple of St. Benedict. The hymn "Aurea luce et decore roseo" (q. v.) is usually, but somewhat uncertainly, attributed to her. Others also bear her name. She died at an early age, at Padua. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Elpis, p. 329, i. Recent researches have led us to conclude that there is no reason to regard Elpis as the author of Aurea luce, p. 93, i.; and that none of the early manuscripts attribute it to her. She is not mentioned as a hymn-writer by recent authorities on early Latin Hymnody, e.g., by Ebert or Manitius (p. 655, i.), or by Rietschel (Herzog-Hauch Healencyklopädie, 1901, xi., pp. 399-409). The traditional account of her, p. 329, i. (as given in the Elogia Siculorum, 1690, p. 103, of Jerome of Ragusa, and more fully by Darras, Hist. de l’Eglite, 1862, vol. xiv., p. 264, &c), is that she was b. at Messina in Sicily, was the first wife of the philosopher Boethius, shared his exile, and died at Pavia (not Padua) about 493, leaving two sons who became consuls in the year 500. Boethius, however, was born little, if any, earlier than 475, and did not go into exile before 522, being at that time the husband of Rusticiana, whose two sons by Boethius were consuls in the year 522 (Viet. Christ. Biog., i., 321; Ersch and Gruber, Encyklop., I., xi., p. 284, &c.) [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

T. I. Ball

1838 - 1916 Person Name: Thomas Isaac Ball (1838-1916) Translator (sts. 3, 4, 6) of "What fairer light is this than time itself doth own" in The Summit Choirbook Ball, Thomas Isaac, born 16 August, 1838. On taking Holy Orders in 1865, he successively became Curate of St. Salvador's, Dundee Mission; Incumbent of St. Mary's, The Cove, by Aberdeen; Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Kinnoull; Curate of All Saints, Brougham Street, Edinburgh; Curate of St. Columba's, Edinburgh; Priest of St. Michael's Chapel, Edinburgh; and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. Mr. Ball is the author of The Orthodox Doctrine of the Church of England, 1877, and of numerous tracts; and the compiler of The English Catholic's Vademecum, 1868. In 1863 he contributed various translations from the Latin to the Appendix to the Hymnal Noted, for use in St. Alban's, Holborn, London, of which he was co-editor with the Rev. H. A. Walker. He was also the sole editor of the Supplement thereto, 1882. These translations are annotated under their respective original first lines. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Ball, T. I., p. 109, i. Became Provost of the Cathedral Church and College of Cumbrae in 1891, and received the Hon. LL.D. from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1895. Dr. Ball is chiefly known through his numerous translations from the Latin, which he contributed to the St. Albans Hymnal, 1898; The Praise of Jesus, 1872; The Requiem Hymnal, The Clumber Hymnal, 1904; The Office Hymn Book 1905, and other collections. The more important and widely used of these translations are noted under their original first lines. In addition, the translations under the initials "C. R." on p. 1507, iv., are claimed by Dr. Ball. The collections given above also contain several of his original hymns, the greater part being in The Praise of Jesus and The Requiem Hymnal, 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)