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Allan Charles Dickinson

b. 1954 Person Name: Allan Charles Dickinson, b. 1954 Author of "Where can we find you, Lord Jesus our Master?" in Singing the Faith

Andrew Pratt

b. 1948 Author of "Abolition of the Slave Trade (Help Us, O God, to Create a New Future)" in Discipleship Ministries Collection

Jessie F. Webb

1866 - 1964 Person Name: Jessie F Webb 1866-1964 Author of "God of the covenant, Lord God almighty" in Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship

Rajaonary

Author of "Jesosy o, Hianao no faleha" in Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001

Jiyu Kennett

1924 - 1996 Person Name: P. Jiyu-Kennett Author of "Parinirvana the Lord now is entering" in The Liturgy of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives Also: Jiyu-Kennett, P. Kennett, P. Jiyu-

1853 - 1893 Author of "Jesus Is Risen" in The Cyber Hymnal Pease, Theodora Claudius, born at Poughkeepsie, K.Y., 1853; educated at Harvard, and Andover Theo. Seminary, graduating in 1880; ordained to the Congregational ministry 1884; Bartlett Prof, of Sacred Rhetoric and Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1893,and died the same year. A small memorial vol. containing an essay on the Christian Ministry, Lectures on Homiletics, &c, with Poems and Hymns, was published by Houghton & Mifflin 1894. Of his hymns the following were included in The Pilgrim Hymnal, N.Y., 1904:— 1. Dear Lord, Who once upon the lake. [Peace.] 1890. 2. How blest Thy first disciples, Lord. [Holy Communion.] 1890. 3. Jesus is risen! lift up your glad voices. [Easter.] 1891. 4. Not long on Hermon's holy height. [Visions and Duty.] 1891. 5. O Lord of life, once laid in Joseph's tomb. [Easter.] 1893. These dates are those of the writing of the hymns. [M. C. Hazard, Ph. D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Ernest Northcroft Merrington

Person Name: E. Merrington (1876-1953) Author of "God of eternity, Lord of the ages" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Ambrose N. Blatchford

1842 - 1924 Person Name: Ambrose Nichols Blatchford, 1842 - 1924 Author of "Peacefully round us the shadows are falling" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Blatchford, Ambrose Nichols, B.A., born at Plymouth, 1842, and educated for the Unitarian Ministry at Manchester New College, London. He also graduated at the London University as B.A. In 1866, he became junior colleague to the late Rev. William James, Minister of Lewin's Mead Meeting, Bristol, and on the death of Mr. James, in 1876, the sole pastor. Mr. Blatchford's hymns were written for the Sunday School anniversary services at Lewin's Mead Meeting, on the dates given below, and were adapted to existing melodies. They were first printed as fly-leaves and include:— 1. A gladsome hymn of praise we sing. Praise. 1876. 2. Awake to the duty, prepare for the strife. Duty. 1878. 3. Lord, without Thy constant blessing. Divine Help. 1875. 4. Night clouds around us silently are stealing. Evening. 1878. 5. O Lord of Life, for all Thy care. Praise. 1875. 6. O'er the wide and restless ocean. Life & Hope. 1878. 7. Once more the shadows fall. Evening. 1880. 8. Softly the silent night. Evening. 1875. Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 were first published in W. B. Stevenson's School Hymnal, 1880, and Nos. 3, 7. and 8 in the Sunday School Hymn Book of the Sunday School Association, Lond., 1881. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==================== Blatchford, Ambrose Nichols, p. 145, i. Since 1866 Minister of Lewin's Mead, Bristol. His Songs of Praise for School and Church, a collection of 56 hymns, was published in 1897. Additional hymns by him are:— 1. On weary hearts descending. Close of School Anniversary. 2. Silent and soft, the first faint gleam of day. Christmas. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)