In silence deep at midnight

Author: H. A. Rawes

Rawes, Henry Augustus, D.D., whose name is associated with Roman Catholic hymnody (see p. 976, 11, 81, 32, and Index, p. 1517) both as translator and compiler, was the son of the head master of Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School. He was b. Dec. 11, 1826, and educated at Houghton-le-Spring, and Trinity Coll., Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852. Ordained in 1851, he held two Curacies and was Warden of the House of Charity, Soho, before he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1856. Subsequently he became Superior of the Oblate Fathers at Bayswater in 1879. He died at Brighton, April 24, 1885. In addition to various books of devotion, and the editing of hymn books (see above), he published The Lost Sheep, and other Poems, 1856; and Foregleams… Go to person page >