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Edward Ashurst Welch

1860 - 1932 Person Name: Canon Edward A. Welch Author of "We lift our hearts, O Father" in The Book of Common Praise Welch, Edward Ashurst, M.A., of King's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1882), Domestic Chaplain to the late Bp. of Durham, and Vicar of St. Bede's, Gateshead, is the author of "Thou Who didst call Thy saints of old." (For Theological College.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================== Welch, Edward Ashurst. (Orpington, England, August 22, 1860--August 6, 1932, Southchurch, England). Anglican. King's College, Cambridge, B.A., 1883; M.A. 1886. Taught tehological students at Auckland Castle (Durham), 1887-1889; Trinity College, Toronto (Ontario), 1895-1899. Pastorates at Haggerston (as curate to Samuel John Stone), 1885-1887; Gateshead, 1890-1895; St. James' Cathedral, Toronto, 1899-1909; Wakefield (Yorkshire), 1909-1917; Southchurch, 1918-1932. While in Canada he did much to ease relations between "high" and "low" Anglicans, and to shape the 1908 Book of Common Praise. His hymns were written for specific occasions, including his own wedding. See: Macdonald, F.C. (1936). Edward Amhurst Welch. Cambridge University Press (privately printed). --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

James Carter

b. 1853 Person Name: Rev. James Carter Author of "We stand to bid you welcome" in Songs of Work and Worship 19th Century

Joaquín de Palma

Person Name: J. De Palma Author of "Jesús me dice amante" in Himnario provisional con los cánticos

W. J. Dawson

1854 - 1928 Author of "Fast falls the night around us" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Born: November 21, 1854, Towcester, Northampton, England. Son of William James and Susan Waller Dawson, William was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester, and ordained a Wesleyan minister in 1875. He married Jane Powell of Lowestoft in 1879, and served in various locations until assuming the pastorate of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church, London, in 1892. The previous year, he was one of the English delegates to the Methodist Ecumenical Council in Washington, DC. He liked America so much that he emigrated there in 1905, joining the Presbyterians and first serving at the First Church in Newark, New Jersey. His works include: A Vision of Souls, 1884 Question and Vision, 1886 A Threshold of Manhood, 1889 Makers of English, 1889 Makers of English Prose, 1899 The Man Christ Jesus, 1901 The Reproach of Christ, 1903 The Quest of the Simple Life, 1903 Makers of English Fiction, 1905 The Empire of Love, 1907 America, and Other Poems, 1912 The American Hymnal, 1913 Robert Shenstone, a novel, 1917 The Father of a Soldier, 1917 The Autobiography of a Mind, 1925 --www.hymntime.com/tch/