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Archer T. Gurney

1820 - 1887 Person Name: Archer Thompson Gurney, 1820-1887 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Composer of "CHESHAM" in The Cyber Hymnal Gurney, Archer Thompson, was born in 1820, and educated for the legal profession. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, but in 1849 he entered Holy Orders. He held several appointments, including the Curacy of Buckingham, 1854-58; the Chaplaincy of the Court Church, Paris, 1858-71, and other charges. He died at Bath, March 21, 1887. His published works include:— Spring, 1853; Songs of the Present, 1854; The Ode of Peace, 1855; Songs of Early Summer, 1856; and A Book of Praise, 1862. To the Book of Praise he contributed 147 hymns. Very few of these are known beyond his own collection. He is widely known through his Easter hymn “Christ is risen, Christ is risen." His "Memory of the blest departed" (SS. Philip and James) is in the People's Hymnal, 1867. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Isabel F. Jones

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Author of "Indwelling" in The Cyber Hymnal

E. P. Marvin

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Author of "Some Sweet Morn (Marvin)" in The Cyber Hymnal 19th Century Currently, our only data on Marvin is that he was a minister. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/r/v/marvin_ep.htm

Jerry R. Brubaker

b. 1946 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Harmonizer of "HOLY ANTHEM" in Gather Comprehensive

John Anketell

1835 - 1905 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Author of "Bright O'er Bethlehem's Lowly Mangers" in The Cyber Hymnal Anketell, John, M.A., was born at New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., March 8, 1835, and educated at Yale College, and the University of- Halle-Wittenberg, Prussian Saxony. He was ordained deacon of the American Episcopalian Church in 1859, and priest in 1860. He founded (Stanza John's (American) Episcopal Church in Dresden in 1869. Subsequently he became Professor of Hebrew and Greek Exegesis in the Seabury Divinity School. Mr. Anketell published in 1889 Gospel and Epistle Hymns for the Christian Year, N.Y. He has also translated about 120 hymns from the German, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian, and Syriac, which were published in the Church Review, N.Y., 1876 and later, and in other periodicals. A few of those from the Latin are noted in Duffield's Latin Hymn-Writers, &c, 1889. Mr. Anketell's original hymns number about 150. Both these and his translations are worthy of notice. He died March 9, 1905. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)