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Mark J. Monk

b. 1858 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "CAMPFIELDS"

b. 1925 Person Name: Paul Wigmore, b. 1925 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "We come to this your table, Lord" in Common Praise Born 1925, London. Schools in Harrow, Bushey Heath and Barnstaple (N Devon). Many occupations between the ages of 14 and 42: apprentice mechanical engineer, shop assistant, junior clerk, photo lab trainee, National Service RAF photographer in India, Burma and UK, Kodak medical radiographer and haematology lab technician, then technical author. Publications and PR manager with air/sea lifesaving equipment manufacturer. PRO for the Christian Medical College and Brown Memorial Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab. Freelance writer, graphic designer and photographer in Cambridge. Advertising editor and art director with Kodak UK from 1967 to early retirement in 1985. Wrote first verse at age ten in Port Isaac, Cornwall, getting as far as: Clouds race like tattered rags across Port Isaac Bay, ... and then stopping. During brief acquaintance with Penelope and John Betjeman from August 1982 until John's death in July, 1984, encouraged by the poet to keep writing verse. Two collections of light verse published in 1988 and 1990. First attempt at a hymn text written ('ÄòMay we, O Holy Spirit, bear your fruit'Äô) at the request of Jubilate Hymns Limited in compilation of Hymns for Today's Church. Something approaching 100 hymn texts now published, plus a couple of cantatas and one opera. The Jubilate Group

Sebastian L. Hernandez

1872 - 1948 Person Name: Sebastian L. Hernández, 1872-1948 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Translator of "¡Oh Padre de la humanidad!" in Culto Cristiano

Albert Schweitzer

1875 - 1965 Person Name: Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author, first line of "He Comes to Us As One Unknown" in Common Praise (1998) Medical missionary in Africa, and organist

Stanley L. Osborne

1907 - 2000 Person Name: Stanley Llewellyn Osborne Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "LLEWELLYN" in The Cyber Hymnal Stanley Llewellen Osborne, studied music at the University Toronto, and later, theology at Emmanuel College, and was ordained a United Church Minister in 1932. Dr. Osborne was co-editor of the United Church's Canadian Youth Hymnal (1939), and full-time secretary to the joint committee of the United Church and the Anglican Church of Canada for The Hymn Book, which they published together in 1971. In 1975 he completed If Such Holy Song, the story of the hymns in the Hymn Book 1971. --SICM (Summer Institute of Church Music, 03 July 2014.

Caryl Micklem

1925 - 2003 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Give to Me, Lord, a Thankful Heart" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Roderic Dunkerley

1884 - 1966 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Dear Father, whom we cannot see" in The Mennonite Hymnal Born: 1884, Ealing, West London, England. Died: May 1966. Roderick’s father was hymnist William Dunkerley. His works include: The Great Awakening, 1915 The Arm of God,1916 Postman’s Knock, 1918 The Proclamation, 1920 The Unwritten Gospel, 1925 First Prayers, 1929 The Pageant of the King’s Children, with his father, 1930 Treasure Trove, 1948 The Secret Moment, 1949 The Hope of Jesus, 1953 At the House of the Interpreter, 1956 Beyond the Gospels, 1957 Prayer Time in the Junior School, with his son, Gregor Hamilton Dunkerley, 1958 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Elinor Lennen

Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Within the Shelter of Our Walls" in Hymnal of the Church of God Lennen, Elinor. Born in Kansas. Graduate of Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma. Resident of Los Angeles, California; active in the Christian Education program of the McCarty Memorial Christian Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ========================= [Lennen] is a life-long member of the Disciples of Christ; and holds membership in the California Writers' Guild and the Poetry Society of Southern California. --Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns, 1959. Used by permission.

Miriam Dewey Ross

b. 1927 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Give Me the Eyes to See This Child" in Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns Ross, Miriam Dewey. (1927-- ). Resident of Hanover, New Hampshire, and later Madison, New Jersey. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

Caroline E. May

1808 - 1873 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "O Saviour, where shall guilty man" in The Hymnal May, Catherine Elizabeth, née Martin, p. 1584, i., under "O Saviour," &c. She was the only daughter of Sir Henry William Martin, Bt, and was b. at Lockinge Park, near Wantage, Feb. 19, 1808; m. 1837 to the Rev. George May, who was from 1843 to 1861 Vicar of Lyddington, Wilts; died at Totland, Isle of Wight, Sep. 12, 1873. The first verse of her hymn, "O Saviour, where shall guilty man," appeared in Dr. Maurice's Choral Harmony, 1858, set to a tune called "Lyddington." which was composed by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, and is dated 1856. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)