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William Boyce
1711 - 1779 Person Name: W. Boyce Composer of "BOYCE" in The Hymnal for Boys and Girls William Boyce (baptised 1711 – d. 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist.
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William Canton
1845 - 1926 Author of "Through the Night Thy Angels Kept" in The Cyber Hymnal Canton, William, was b. Oct. 27, 1845, on the Isle of Chusan, China, and now (1906) resides in Highgate, London. He is the author of various volumes of poems, of a History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1903, &c. Two of his poems are used as hymns in the English Hymnal, 1906, and others.
1. Hold Thou my hands! [Hold Thou me up.] First published in Good Words, May 1893, p. 333, and reprinted in his The Invisible Playmate, 1894, p. 21.
2. Through the night Thy angels kept. [Morning.] From his The Comrades, 1902, p. 233. [Rev. James Mearns. M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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