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Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Composer of "LANCASHIRE" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporiza­tions and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for impor­tant places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman
Henry Thomas Smart

Joseph P. Holbrook

1822 - 1888 Person Name: Joseph Perry Holbrook Composer of "MIRIAM" in The Cyber Hymnal Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson
Joseph P. Holbrook

Charles I. Cameron

1837 - 1879 Person Name: Charles Innis Cameron Author of "Oh, fair the gleams of glory" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Born: 1837, Kil­mall­ie (near Fort Will­iam), Scot­land. Died: March 3, 1879, New Ed­in­burgh, Ot­ta­wa, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Buried: Ca­tar­a­qui Cem­e­tery, Kings­ton, On­ta­rio, Ca­na­da. Emigrating to Ca­na­da in 1858, Cam­er­on at­tend­ed Queen’s Coll­ege, Kings­ton, where he grad­u­at­ed, then stu­died for three years at the The­o­lo­gi­cal Hall and in Glas­gow. Or­dained in 1865, he went to In­dia as a miss­ion­ary for the Church of Scot­land, but lat­er was com­pelled to leave due to ill health. He tried to work in Aus­tral­ia for a time, but re­turned to Ca­na­da in 1875 and took charge of a con­gre­ga­tion at New Edin­burgh, in the Pres­by­te­ry of Ot­ta­wa. In a brief time his health again gave way, and he had to re­sign his work, dy­ing short­ly af­ter­wards. He wrote a num­ber of po­ems which were pub­lished in a small vol­ume af­ter his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch/
Charles I. Cameron

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