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Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Author of "God! As with Silent Hearts" in Voices United Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)

James Langran

1835 - 1909 Composer of "ST AGNES (LANGRAN)" in Voices United James Langran (b. St. Pancras, London, England, November 10, 1835; d. Tottenham, London, England, June 8, 1909) studied organ as a youth but did not receive his Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford until he was forty-nine years old. He had several organist positions–the longest was at St. Paul's Church, Tottenham, England, from 1870 to 1909. He also taught music at St. Katherine's Training College for Schoolmistresses (1878-1909). Music editor of theNew Mitre Hymnal　(1875), Langran composed around fifty hymn tunes and contributed several of them to early editions of Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman

Charles Harris

1865 - 1936 Person Name: Charles Harris, 1865-1936 Composer of "SUPREME SACRIFICE" in Singing the Faith Born: July 20, 1865, Islington, London, England. Died: July 30, 1936. Buried: St. Leonard’s parish church, Eynsham, Oxfordshire, England. Harris earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Oxford University, and served as Vicar of Colwall, Herefordshire (1909-29), and as Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral. His works include: Christian Reunion from the Nonconformist and the Church Point of View, 1903 Pro Fide: A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion (London: J. Murray, 1914) Creeds or No Creeds? A Critical Examination of the Basis of Modernism (New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch