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Piotrowi Skardze

1536 - 1612 Author (attributed to) of "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly"

Highmore Skeats

1760 - 1831 Person Name: Highmore Skeats, Sen., 1756?-1831 Composer of "THE RIGHTEOUS SOULS" in Church Hymns

1807 - 1861 Person Name: O. A. Skinner Author of "Thou Fount of love and grace" Skinner, Otis Ainsworth, D.D. (Royalton, Vermont, July 3, 1807--September 18, 1861, Joliet, Ohio). A Universalist minister and author, serving churches in Baltimore, Maryland; New York City; and Boston. Later, President of Lombard College, Illinois. His hymn beginning "Thou Fount of love and grace" is included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

James Skinner

1818 - 1881 Author of "Great God, the Giver of All Good" in Voices United Skinner, James; b. 23 June 1818 Forfar, Scotland; d. 29 Dec. 1881 Bath, England; author and hymn-writer

John Skelton

1831 - 1897 Person Name: J. Skelton Author of "Upon the hills the wind is bleak and cold" in Worship Song Skelton, Sir John, LL.D., s. of James Skelton, of Sandford Newton, writer to the signet, born in Edinburgh in 1831; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; member of the faculty of Advocates; Sec. to the Scottish Board of Supervision and Vice-President Scottish Local Gov. Board; K.C.B. 1897. He d. July 19, 1897. He wrote somewhat extensively, and in Frazer's Magazine, under the name of Shirley. His hymn, "Upon the hills the wind is bleak and cold" (Evening), is in common use. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Walter William Skeat

1835 - 1912 Author of "O Thou, who first at Cana's feast" in Victorian Hymns

J. Scott Skinner

1843 - 1927 Person Name: J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) Composer of "THE FLOWER OF THE QUERN" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) b. Aug. 5, 1843, Banchory-Ternan, Scotland, d. Mar. 17, 1927, Aberdeen, Scotland; known as the Strathspey King

J. H. Skrine

1848 - 1923 Person Name: John H. Skrine Author of "Lord of the brave, who callest Thine own" Skrine, John Huntley, M.A., son of H. D. Skrine, was b. April 3, 1848, at Warleigh, Somerset; was educated at Uppingham and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874), and was ordained D. 1874, P. 1876. He was fellow of Mertcn Coll., Oxford, 1871-79, assistant master at Uppingham, 1873-87, Warden of Trinity Coll., Glenalmond, 1888-1902, and in 1903 became Vicar of Itchen Stoke, Hants. He published in 1899 Thirty Hymns for Public-School Singing, three of which have passed into the Public-School Hymn Book, 1903, and the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905. 1. Lord of the brave, Who call'st Thine own. [Confirmation.] Written 1893; 1899, No. xi. 2. O'er the harvest reaped or lost. [End of Term.] Written 1884; 1899, No. ii. 3. Rank by rank again we stand [Beginning of Term.] Written 1884; 1899, No. i. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Erik August Skogsbergh

1850 - 1939 Person Name: E. A. Skogsbergh Author of "Ack hur lycklig är bardomstiden!"

A. L. Skoog

1854 - 1934 Person Name: A. L. Skoog, 1856-1934 Author of "We Wait for a Great and Glorious Day" in The Covenant Hymnal Skoog, Andrew L. (Gunnarskog, Sweden, December 17, 1856 [sic]--October 30, 1934, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Evangelical Covenant. Son of pietists. Tailor's apprentice at 10. Family emigrated to St. Paul, Minn., when Andrew was 13. Only formal music training was 12 lessons on a melodeon. Organist, choir director, and Sunday School superintendent in Swedish Tabernacle, Minneapolis, 1886-1916. Co-editor of hymnals: Evangelii Basun I & II, 1881-1883; Lilla Basunen, 1890; and Jubelklangen, 1896. Was in editorial committee of Covenant's first three hymnals: Sions Basun, 1908; De Ungas Sångbok, 1914; and Mission Hymns, 1921. Editor and publisher of Gittit 1892-1908, a monthly choir journal with music; a series of ten bound volumes of choir selections; and many hymns. --J. Irving Erickson, DNAH Archives

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