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Frederick Mann

1846 - 1928 Person Name: Frederick Mann, 1846-1928 Author of "My God, My Father, Make Me Strong" in The Cyber Hymnal Not to be confused with Frederick Alexander Mann, 1844-1903.

Daniel Hughes

Person Name: D. H. Author of "Ein Harglwydd da, â'r flwyddyn draw" in Mawl a chân = praise and song

1911 - 1984 Person Name: William Fitch, 1911-1982 Author of "O King Eternal, Sovereign Lord" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Fitch, William. (Falkirk, Scotland, July 10, 1911-March 23, 1984, Toronto, Canada [Glasgow Herald]). Presbyterian. University of Glasgow, M.A., 1932; B.D., 1935; Ph.D., 1943. Pastorates at Newmilnes, 1936-1943; Glasgow, 1943-1955; Toronto, Ontario, 1955-1972. From 1972, director of the Church Renewal Foundation, and evangelist-at-large, for the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Author of some twenty books of Biblical exposition on great themes. He was chairman of the committee which prepared the Book of Praise (1972), to which he contributed one hymn. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Charles Stuart Calverley

1831 - 1884 Person Name: C. Stuart Calverley ( —1884) Author of "Hear us, O Christ" in Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes Calverley, Charles Stewart, M.A., son of the Rev. Henry Blayds, some time Vicar of South Stoke, near Bath (who took the name of Calverley in 1852), was born at Hartley, Worcestershire, Dec. 22, 1831. He entered Harrow in 1846, from whence he passed to Oxford, but coming under the censure of the authorities, he migrated to Cambridge in 1852, where, after gaining some of the best classical prizes of that University, he graduated first class in Classical honour?. In due course he was called to the Bar and followed the Northern circuit. He died at Folkestone, Feb. 17, 1884. He is known to hymnody through several translations from the Latin, which he made for the Hymnary in 1871, and were published therein in 1872. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)