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Robert Jackson

1840 - 1914 Person Name: Robert Jackson (1842- ) Composer of "LYMINGTON" in The Pilgrim Hymnal After receiving his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music, Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1840; d. Oldham, 1914) worked briefly as organist at St. Mark's Church, Grosvenor Square, in London. But he spent most of his life as organist at St. Peter's Church in Oldham (1868-1914), where his father had previously been organist for forty-eight years. A composer of hymn tunes, Jackson was also the conductor of the Oldham Music Society and Werneth Vocal Society. Bert Polman

John Farmer

1836 - 1901 Person Name: John Farmer, 1836-1901 Composer of "FARMER" in The New Christian Hymnal Born: August 16, 1835, Nottingham, England. Died: July 17, 1901, at his home in Oxford, England. Buried: St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford, England. Eldest child of butcher John Farmer and milliner Mary Blackshaw Farmer, John learned to play the piano, violin, and harp when young. He was apprenticed to his uncle Henry Farmer, an organist, composer, and music teacher with a music and musical instrument business in Nottingham. At age 14, John went to study at the Leipzig Conservatory, then three years later under Andreas Spaeth in Coburg for a year. He returned to England in 1853, and entered his father’s lace business. After his mother’s death in 1856, he went to Zürich, Switzerland, where he taught music. He returned to England again in 1861, and became music master of Harrow School in 1864, staying there until 1885. He then accepted an invitation to become organist at at Balliol College, Oxford, where he founded the Balliol Concerts. During his career, Farmer composed oratorios, cantatas, church music, chamber music and numerous school songs, especially for Harrow School. One of his best known compositions was "Forty Years On," which he wrote at Harrow in 1872. While at Balliol, he composed Warwick School’s first school song, "Here’s a Song For All", in 1892. His other works include: Cinderella The oratorio Christ and His Soldiers The cricketing song "Willow the King" Music: FARMER © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Robert Prescott Stewart

1825 - 1894 Person Name: R. P. Stewart Composer of "GARFIRTH" in Hymns of Worship and Service

Lawrence W. Watson

1860 - 1925 Composer of "SALVE DOMINE" in The Hymnal for Boys and Girls

Bartholomaüs Helder

1585 - 1635 Person Name: B. Helder, 1585-1635 Composer of "WOHLAUF, THUT NICHT VERZAGEN" in Songs of Praise Helder, Bartholomäus, son of Johann Helder, Superintendent in Gotha, became, in 1607, schoolmaster at Friemar, and in 1616, pastor of Bemstadt, near Gotha, where he died of the pestilence, Oct. 28, 1635 (Koch, iii. 114, 115, 248; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xi. 684, 685, &c). Helder published two works (both in the Royal Library, Berlin). (1) Cymbalum Genethliacum. Erfurt, 1615 ; and (2) Cymbalum Davidicum. Erfurt, 1620. The first contains 15 Christmas and New Year Hymns, and the second 25, mostly Psalm versions. In the Cantionale Sacrum, Gotna, 1646-48, over 50 hymns are given with his name as composer of the music and without definite ascription as regards the words. Two of these have passed into English, viz.:— i. In meiner Noth ruf ich zu dir. Supplication. A prayer for grace, which appeared in the Cantionale Sacrum, pt. ii., Gotha, 1648, No. 71, in 3 st. of 6 1. Translated by Miss Manington, 1863, p. 1, as "From out my woe I cry to Thee." ii. O Lämmlein Gottes, Jesu Christ. St. John Baptist's Day. Founded on St. John i. 29. Appeared as No. 103 in the Cantionale Sacrum, Gotha, 1646, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, entitled, "On St. John's Day." Included as No. 391 in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen. 1851. The only translation in common use is "O Jesus, Lamb of God, who art," in full, by A. Crull, as No. 120 in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Alfred R. Gaul

1837 - 1913 Person Name: A. R. Gaul, 1837-1913 Composer of "HOLY CITY" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book

Robert H. McCartney

1844 - 1895 Person Name: Robert H. McCartney, 1844-1895 Composer of "WESTWOOD" in New Baptist Hymnal

H. J. Storer

1860 - 1935 Person Name: Henry J. Storer Composer of "ST. PAUL" in Worship and Song. (Rev. ed.) b. Cambridge, Mass., 1860; d. Belmont, Mass., 1935; composer and teacher

Thomas Adams

1857 - 1918 Person Name: T. Adams Composer of "PATRIA" in The Hymnal of Praise

Thomas Forbes

1832 - 1903 Person Name: Thomas L. Forbes, 1833-1903 Composer of "COME SING" in Hymns for Schools and Colleges Born: October 10, 1832, Kensington, Middlesex, England. Died: May 9, 1903, Hampstead, England. Forbes was an amateur organist and composer. His works include: Church Tune and Chorale Book, 1858 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

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