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[With shepherds watching lambs and sheep]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Henry Ackley Incipit: 12365 43125 43151 Used With Text: When the Lord of Love was Born
[With shepherds watching lambs and sheep]

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When The Lord Of Love Was Born

Author: Hugh Thomson Kerr Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: With shepherds watching lambs and sheep Topics: Christmas; Jesus Christ Birth Used With Tune: [With shepherds watching lambs and sheep] (Ackley)
When The Lord Of Love Was Born

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When The Lord Of Love Was Born

Author: Hugh Thomson Kerr Hymnal: Christian Service Songs #292 (1939) First Line: With shepherds watching lambs and sheep Topics: Christmas; Jesus Christ Birth Languages: English Tune Title: [With shepherds watching lambs and sheep] (Ackley)
When The Lord Of Love Was Born

When the Lord of Love was Born

Author: Hugh Thomson Kerr Hymnal: Gloria in Excelsis #215 (1933) First Line: With shepherds watching lambs and sheep Languages: English Tune Title: [With shepherds watching lambs and sheep]
When the Lord of Love was Born

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A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Person Name: Alfred Henry Ackley Composer of "[With shepherds watching lambs and sheep] (Ackley)" in Christian Service Songs Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
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Hugh Thomson Kerr

1871 - 1950 Author of "When The Lord Of Love Was Born" in Christian Service Songs Hugh Thomson Kerr (1872-1950) Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 11, 1872, Elo­ra, Ca­na­da. Died: June 27, 1950, Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia. Buried: Home­wood Cem­e­te­ry, Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia. Kerr at­tend­ed the Un­i­ver­si­ty of To­ron­to and West­ern The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia. Or­dained a Pres­by­ter­i­an min­is­ter, he pas­tored in Kan­sas and Il­li­nois, and at the Sha­dy­side Pres­by­ter­i­an Church, Pitts­burgh (1913-1946). A pi­o­neer in re­li­gious broad­cast­ing, his 1922 Christ­mas Day ser­mon was broad­cast to the North and South Poles by ra­dio sta­tion KDKA. He served as Mod­er­a­tor of the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA in 1930, helped com­pile the Pres­by­ter­i­an Hymn­al in 1933, the Pres­by­ter­i­an Book of Com­mon Wor­ship, and helped found World­wide Com­mun­ion Sun­day. --cyberhymnal.org/bio/k/e/kerr_ht.htm
Hugh Thomson Kerr
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