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Ethelbert W. Bullinger

1837 - 1913 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "WALTHAMSTOW" Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works). John Perry

Roy Hopp

Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "SAIPAN" in The New Century Hymnal Roy Hopp (b. 1951) is the Director of Music at Woodlawn Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, MI and Adjunct Professor of Choral Music at Calvin Theological Seminary, where he directs the Calvin Theological Seminary Choir. Hopp graduated from Calvin College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and from Michigan State University with a Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting. He did further studies in church music and composition with Richard Hillert at Concordia University in River Forest, IL. He has served as a Director of Music in churches in West Michigan and Colorado for the past twenty years. His choral compositions have appeared in the catalogues of AugsburgFortress, earthsongs, GIA Publications, Inc., Kjos, MorningStar, and Selah and his hymn tunes have been published in hymnals and collections in the United States, Canada, England, Wales and Scotland. Emily Brink

Anthony G. Petti

1932 - 1985 Person Name: Anthony G. Petti 1932- Meter: 6.6.6.6 Paraphraser of "Ave maris stella" in The Australian Hymn Book with Catholic Supplement Petti, Anthony Gaetano. (London, England, February 12, 1932-- ). Roman Catholic. University College, London, B.A., 1955; M.A., 1957; D.Lit., 1970. While teaching English at the University of London (1955-1968) and the University of Calgary, Alberta (1969-?), and directing in both cities vocal and instrumental groups whose members shared his tastes, he did a great deal of research into Renaissance literature and music, particularly that produced by English Catholics, and published critical editions of many obscure and fascinating works. He reached out to a non-specialist audience with The New Catholic Hymns, for which he served as literary editor and made several translations, was published by Faber Music, London, in 1971; editions in several other countries soon followed, and his verses found their way into many other hymnbooks and breviaries. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

David Peacock

b. 1949 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "PARKSTONE" in The Worshiping Church

Frank S. Spinney

1850 - 1888 Person Name: Frank S. Spinney, 1850-1888 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "ST. DENYS" in Hymnal of the Church of God

Ken Barker

b. 1955 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Arranger of "O THE BLOOD OF JESUS" in Baptist Hymnal 2008

Henry Lawes

1596 - 1662 Person Name: H. Lawes, 1596-1662 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "PSALM 32" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Born: January 5, 1596, Dinton, Wiltshire, England. Died: October 21, 1662, London, England. Buried: In the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, London, England. Lawes, tutor to the daughters of the Earl of Bridgewater, is best known as a composer. He became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1626, and a member of the "King’s Musick" in 1631. He wrote over 400 vocal pieces, as well as anthems and instrumental compositions. His works include: Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices, 1648 Ayres and Dialogues (London: 1653) Sources: Frost, p. 680 Hughes, pp. 467-68 Nutter, p. 460 Stulken, p. 292 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Bradford Torrey

1843 - 1912 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Author of "Not So in Haste, My Heart" in The United Methodist Hymnal

John Dykes Bower

1905 - 1981 Person Name: John Dykes Bower, 1905-81 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "AMEN COURT" in The New English Hymnal Sir John Dykes Bower CVO (13 August 1905 – 1981) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Truro Cathedral, Durham Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. John Dykes Bower was born on 13 August 1905 in Gloucester. He was one of four brothers. Stephen Dykes Bower became a famous church architect. He was educated at Cheltenham College and studied organ under Herbert Brewer, and was organ scholar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1922. He was organist of: Truro Cathedral 1926 - 1929 New College, Oxford 1929 - 1933 Durham Cathedral 1933 - 1936 St Paul's Cathedral 1936 - 1968 --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

John P. Hobson

b. 1849 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Composer of "THELE" Hobson, John Philip, M.A., son of John Hobson, M.A., sometime Consular Chaplain at Shanghai, was born at Shanghai, China, Sept. 3, 1849, and educated at the Blackheath Proprietary School and Worcester College, Oxford (B.A. 1872). On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of Greenwich, 1873, and Vicar of Stanstead Abbotts, Herts, 1878. Mr. Hobson has published:— (1) Scenes in the Life of David: a Service of Song, 1877; (2) Scripture Echoes in our Church's Collects, 1881; (3) Twenty Hymns . .. with Tunes; and others. Mr. Hobson's hymns in common use are:— 1. Hail, Son of Man! Hail, mighty Lord. Ascension. Written for and first published in his Scripture Echoes , &c, 1881; in the Twenty Hymns and the Universal Hymn Book, 1885. 2. It is an unknown way. New Year. Written in 1877, and published in the Twenty Hymns. and the Universal Hymn Book, 1885. 3. O Lord, the bishop of our souls. Ember Days. Written for a special Ember service held at Ware, 1878, and published in the Twenty Hymnsand the Universal Hymn Book, 1885! 4. Saviour Divine, Thou art my King. Jesus, the King. Suggested by Miss Havergal's "My King," &c. Written in 1876, and 1st printed in the Fireside Magazine, 1876, and again in the Twenty Hymns., &c. It is the best known of the author's hymns. 5. We thank Thee that the glorious sound. Missions. Appeared in Life and Work, 1884. In the Twenty Hymns (Novello) there are others of special merit, and worthy of the attention of compilers. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology