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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
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: Thirt… Go to person page >
First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…
Display Title: How great our God's majestic Name!First Line: How great our God's majestic Name!Tune Title: [How great our God's majestic Name!]Date: 2015
Display Title: How Great Our God's Majestic NameFirst Line: How great our God's majestic Name!Tune Title: DUKE STREETAuthor: Timothy Dudley-SmithMeter: 8.8.8.8.Scripture: Psalm 8:1Date: 1991
Display Title: How Great Our God's Majestic NameFirst Line: How great our God's majestic Name!Tune Title: DUKE STREETAuthor: Timothy Dudley-SmithMeter: LMScripture: Psalm 8Date: 2010Subject: God the Father | Creator; God-Creator | ; God-Majesty and Power | ; God-Mercy | ; Praise and Adoration-God |