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James Nares
1715 - 1783 Person Name: J. Nares (1715-1783) Composer of "AYNHOE" in The Academic Hymnal Born: April 19, 1715, Stanwell, Middlesex, England.
Died: February 10, 1783.
Buried: St. Margaret’s, Westminster, England.
After his family moved to Oxford, Nares became a chorister in the Chapel Royal. He later became deputy organist at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor; organist in York Cathedral (1734); and organist in the Royal Chapel and composer to the king (1756). He received a doctorate of music degree from Cambridge University in 1756. In 1770, the Catch Club awarded him a prize for his glee To All Lovers of Harmony.
Sources:
Frost, p. 683
Nutter, p. 462
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/a/r/nares_j.htm
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James Nares
Eleazar Thompson Fitch
1791 - 1871 Person Name: E. T. Fitch Author of "Lord, at this closing hour" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Fitch, Eleazar Thompson, D.D. Born at New Haven, Jan. 1, 1791, and graduated at Yale College, 1810. In 1817 he was appointed Professor of Divinity in Yale, and retained the Professorship to 1863. Died Jan. 31, 1871. His published works include Sermons, &c.
With Dr. Bacon and others he compiled the Connecticut Congregational Psalms & Hymns, 1845, and contributed to it 3 psalm versions and 3 hymns. Of these the following are in use: (1) "Lord, at this closing hour." (Close of Divine Service. ) This is extensively used in America, and is also found in the English Presbyterian Psalms & Hymns, 1867. (2) "The God of Peace, Who from the dead." (Close of Divine Service.) (3) "By vows of love together bound." (Holy Matrimony.) [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Eleazar Thompson Fitch
Violet Ker Seymer
1860 - 1954 Person Name: V. K. S. Author of "As sings the mountain stream" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Ker Seymer, Violet. (Paris, France, 1860--1954). English parents. Educated by tutors and in private schools in Paris, Dresden and Brussels. She was a Christian Science teacher, lecturer and editor, also a practitioner from 1902 to 1954.
--Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives
Violet Ker Seymer
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