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Edward Harwood

1707 - 1787 Person Name: E. Harwood, 1707-87 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "GROSVENOR" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Edward Harwood (of Darwen) (1707–1787) was an English composer of hymns, anthems and songs. His setting of Alexander Pope's The Dying Christian (Vital spark of heav'nly flame) was enormously popular at one time and was widely performed at funerals. Edward Harwood was born at Hoddlesden, near Darwen, Lancashire, in 1707. His early training was as a hand-loom weaver, but he subsequently became a professional musician in Liverpool. His first collection of psalmody, A set of hymns and psalm tunes, was published in London in 1781 and a second collection, entitled A Second Set of Hymns and Psalm Tunes/ was published at Chester in 1786. He died in 1787. Harwood's setting of Pope's ode "Vital spark of heav'nly flame" was first published in Harwood's A set of hymns and psalm tunes: it is written in the style of a glee, and in the original publication is written for the most part for three voices (two trebles and bass), with a fourth (tenor) part being added for the last few bars only. It was, however, often arranged for the more usual four part-choir. The piece was very popular in the first half of the 19th century, being widely sung among Anglicans, Methodists and dissenters, and Lightwood noted in 1935 that it 'certainly had a long and prosperous run, and even now it is not quite extinct'. However, it was not always a great favourite with the clergy, whose objections were mainly to do with the text, which is not explicitly religious (also, it's a poem written by a Catholic, after the last words of the Emperor Hadrian). --en.wikipedia.org/wik

William C. Filby

1833 - 1913 Person Name: William C. Filby (1836-) Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "SUNDRIDGE" in Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church Baptized: St. Paul, January 16, 1833, Hammersmith, Middlesex, England. Died: June 22, 1913, Richmond, Surrey, England. Son of William and Lucy Filby, William studied in France, and played the organ at St. Peter’s Church, Hammersmith (1849); Bromley Parish Church, Kent (1853); the London churches of St. Peter, Walworth; St. Matthew, Bayswater; and St. Luke, Westbourne Park; Holy Trinity, Margate, Kent; Holy Trinity, Stepney, London; and St. Paul, West Greenwich, London (1884). He also served as organist at the International Exhibitions of 1882 and of 1885, wrote and lectured on church music, opera and music education, and composed organ voluntaries, operettas, songs, part songs and choruses. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Gerald Sainton

Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "REGENT STREET"

John Frederick Bridge

Person Name: J. F. Bridge, 1844-1924 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "LOTHIAN" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes See Bridge, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1924

S. Chandler

b. 1760 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "GANGES" in The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal

L. P. Brink

1876 - 1936 Person Name: Rev. L. P. Brink Meter: 8.8.6 D Author of "The Tribes of the Southwest" in The New Christian Hymnal Leonard P. Brink (b. East Saugatuck, MI, 1876; d. Pomeroy, IA 1936), a graduate of Calvin Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1900), spent much of his life as a missionary among the Navajo people. He translated Bible books and hymns into the Navajo language and wrote a catechism for the Navajo people. He also translated Dutch poetry and hymns into English. Bert Polman

Edward Patrick Crawford

1846 - 1912 Person Name: Dean E. P. Crawford Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "JEHOVAH NISSI" in The Book of Common Praise

Mary Porter Beegle

1818 - 1888 Meter: 8.8.6 D Author of "When He Cometh!" Mary Porter Loomis Beegle was born on July 19, 1818, in Otisville, New York. She was the wife of

James Foster

1807 - 1885 Person Name: J. Foster, 1807-85 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "PEMBROKE" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

Elizabeth Daye

1733 - 1829 Person Name: Elizabeth Daye, 1733-1829 Meter: 8.8.6 D Author of "I'll Bless Jehovah's Glorious Name" in The Cyber Hymnal Daye, Elizabeth, 1733-1829. Daughter of Rev. James Daye, Presbyterian minister at Lancaster (d. 1770). Published a volume of poems at Liverpool, 1798, and contributed to the Monthly Repository. Her hymn Of Worship is in Kippis & Belfast Collection, “I'll bless Jehovah's glorious name." Wallace gives another hymn for Sunday Evening, "0 may the truths this day has taught." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)