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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "We bring you, Lord, our prayer and praise" in Common Praise Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

John Barnard

b. 1948 Person Name: John Barnard (b. 1948) Arranger of "LIVERPOOL" in Ancient and Modern

George Smart

1776 - 1867 Person Name: George Smart, 1776-1867 Composer of "WILTSHIRE" in Common Praise

M. C. H. Davis

1795 - 1880 Composer (melody, attributed to) of "LIVERPOOL" in Ancient and Modern A clock maker and silver smith, Davis grew up in Newberry County, South Carolina, and appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses there. By 1870, he and his wife Melinda had moved in with their daughter in Concord, South Carolina, and were living there through at least 1880. --www.hymntime.com/tch

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