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Thomas Turton

1780 - 1864 Person Name: Bishop Turton Composer of "ELY" in The Westminster Abbey Hymn-Book Turton, Thomas; b. 25 Feb. 1780 Yorkshire, England; d. 7 Jan. 1864 London; clergyman and scholar

1770 - 1846 Person Name: J. C. H. Rink Composer of "OVERBERG" in The Brethren Hymnody Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck; b. 1770, Elgersburg, Thueringen; d. 1846, Darmstadt Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Abraham Wolf Binder

1895 - 1966 Person Name: A. W. Binder Composer of "[O render thanks to God above]" in Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged.

Gregory Wilbur

b. 1968 Person Name: Gregory D. Wilbur Composer of "RENDER THANKS" in Psalms of Grace

Thomas Grassi

Harmonizer of "RENDER THANKS" in Psalms of Grace

N. Mitchell

Author of "O render thanks to God above, The fountain of eternal love" in The Christian Minstrel

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: Dykes Composer of "THANKSGIVING" in New Manual of Praise As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman