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Peter A. Vincular

Hymnal Number: d11 Author of "Fight the good fight with all thy [your] might" in Modern Hymn Tunes

1852 - 1905 Person Name: W. H. Jervois Hymnal Number: d62 Author of "Wherefore, O Father, we thy humble servants" in Modern Hymn Tunes Born: October 1852, Alderney, Channel Islands, United Kingdom (where his father was stationed) Died: August 5, 1905, St. Marylebone, London, England. Jervois, William Henry Hammond, M.A., was born in Oct. 1852 on the Isle of Alderney, where his father, W. F. D. Jervois, afterwards Lieut. General, was then stationed. He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1876, M.A. 1878), and was ordained D. 1878, P. 1879. He became Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, London, in 1896, and died Aug. 5, 1905. He was, until his death, a member of the Committee who compiled The English Hymnal, 1906, and contributed to it:— 1. Father, see Thy children bending at Thy throne. Holy Communion. This was jointly with the Rev. W. R Trevelyan, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Westminster, London. 2. See, Father, Thy beloved Son. Holy Communion. 3. Wherefore, O Father, we Thy humble servants. Holy Communion. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)