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Cyril Bowdler

1839 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 261 Composer of "BOWDLER, NO. 178" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Bowdler was an English organist and composer. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

1766 - 1837 Person Name: S. Wesley Hymnal Number: 216 Composer of "EXETER" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Samuel Wesley; b. Feb. 24, 1766, Bristol; d. Oct. 11, 1837, London; composer and organist. Son of Charles Wesley, grandson of Samuel Wesley, 1662-1735

Edmund Hart Turpin

1835 - 1907 Person Name: E. H. Turpin Hymnal Number: 76b Composer of "MANSFIELD" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Turpin, Edmund Hart, organist; b. Nottingham on 4 May 1835; m. 1st Sarah Anne Watson in 1857; m. 2nd Sarah Hobbs in 1905; d. in London, on 25 Oct. 1907)

John A. Stevenson

1761 - 1833 Person Name: Sir J. Stevenson Hymnal Number: 94 Composer of "VESPER" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

G. C. E. Ryley

Person Name: Rev. G. C. E. Ryley, Mus. Bac. Hymnal Number: 287 Composer of "MILES' HOPE" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

R. Cecil

1748 - 1810 Hymnal Number: 224 Composer of "S. JOHN" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Cecil, Richard, M.A., born in London, Nov. 8, 1748, and educated at Queen's Coll., Oxford. Ordained deacon in 1776, and priest in 1777. He became the Vicar of two churches near Lewes shortly after; chaplain of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780; and Vicar of Chobham and Bisley, 1800. He died in 1810. His poem:— Cease here longer to detain me. Desiring Heaven. In 9 stanzas of 4 lines, is supposed to be addressed by a dying infant to his mother. It was written for his wife on the death of a child “only one month old, being removed at daybreak, whose countenance at the time of departure was most heavenly." It was first published in Mrs. Cecil's Memoir of him, prefixed to his Remains, 1811, and is headed “Let me go, for the day breaketh." In the American hymn-books it is usually abbreviated, as in the Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. [William T. Brooke] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

A. Edmonds Tozer

1857 - 1919 Person Name: A. E. Tozer Hymnal Number: 150 Composer of "ST. ETHELBERGA" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

Johann G. Braun

1656 - 1687 Person Name: Braun Hymnal Number: 41 Composer of "HERMON" in Hymns for the Children of the Church

Edmund S. Carter

1845 - 1923 Person Name: E. S. Carter Hymnal Number: 247 Composer of "SLINGSBY" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Born: February 3, 1845, New Malton, Yorkshire, England. Died: May 23, 1923, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Carter attended Worcester College, Oxford (BA & MA 1871). He was ordained deacon in 1871, and priest in 1872. He served as Curate of Christ Church, Ealing, Middlesex (1871-75); Vicar choral of York Minster (1875); Rector of St. Martin, Micklegate, York (1877-82); and Vicar of St. Michael Belfry, York (1882). Music: DAY BY DAY WREFORD --www.hymntime.com/tch/