Short Name: | Robert P. Kerr |
Full Name: | Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923 |
Birth Year: | 1850 |
Death Year: | 1923 |
Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee.
Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Tunes by Robert P. Kerr (12) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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BONA PATRIA (Kerr) | Rev. R. P. Kerr (Composer) | 3 | 33451 35176 66232 |
BOWDITCH | Rev. R. P. Kerr (Composer) | 2 | 33433 22124 31321 |
CALVARY (Kerr) | Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer) | 3 | 13214 32654 33543 |
ETERNAL ROCK | Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer) | 2 | 33371 43432 12321 |
[Galilean King and Prophet] | Rev. R. P. Kerr, D.D. (Composer) | 4 | 35176 56512 34321 |
GREEN ISLAND | Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer) | 2 | 35361 24323 42333 |
IONA (Kerr) | Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer) | 4 | 54515 45743 46654 |
[Jesus, my Savior! look on me] (Kerr) | Rev. Robert P. Kerr, D.D. (Composer) | 3 | 32313 46232 16543 |
LAND OF HOLY LIGHT | Rev. Robert P. Kerr, D.D. (Composer) | 3 | 33534 42234 32345 |
[Lord of earth, Thy forming hand] (Kerr) | Rev. R. P. Kerr (Composer) | 3 | 33432 12223 21233 |
MERRILL (Kerr) | Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer) | 5 | 12314 13212 13213 |
SANQUHAR | Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer) | 2 | 51353 25256 52567 |