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Frederick C. Maker

1844 - 1927 Person Name: Frederick Charles Maker Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "REST" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Frederick C. Maker (b. Bristol, England, August 6, 1844; d. January 1, 1927) received his early musical training as a chorister at Bristol Cathedral, England. He pursued a career as organist and choirmaster—most of it spent in Methodist and Congregational churches in Bristol. His longest tenure was at Redland Park Congregational Church, where he was organist from 1882-1910. Maker also conducted the Bristol Free Church Choir Association and was a long-time visiting professor of music at Clifton College. He wrote hymn tunes, anthems, and a cantata, Moses in the Bulrushes. Bert Polman

Basil E. Bridge

b. 1927 Person Name: Basil E. Bridge, b. 1927 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "O God of hope" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Michael Forster

b. 1946 Person Name: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Arise to greet the Lord of light" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

W. Frederick Wooden

Person Name: W. Frederick Wooden, 1953- Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "DISTANT BELOVED" in Singing the Living Tradition

Barbara Woollett

b. 1937 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "How Long, O Lord" in Sing the Faith Barbara Woollett-- Born on 30 January 1937 in Southampton, where she has lived ever since. Educated at Sholing Secondary School for Girls; married David Woollett, an engineer; they have three children and six grandchildren. She has been a full-time housewife and mother, a volunteer ward assistant in a large city hospital, and a mature student for a GCSE in Drama, as well as being active in a local amateur dramatic group. She is a member of the Jubilate Group. She has written several hymn texts, Psalm versions and other verses. Publications featuring her work include Church Family Worship (1988); Come, Rejoice (1989); Songs from the Psalms (1990); Psalms for Today (1990) which has four of her paraphrases; "Let's Praise" 2 (1994); "Sing Glory" (1999); and "Praise!" (2000). Appearing in several books are her versions of Psalm 13, "How long, O Lord, will your forget an answer to my prayer"; and Psalm 84, "How lovely is your dwelling-place, O Lord most high". Among North American hymnals, The Worshiping Church (1990) has three of her texts and Worship and Rejoice (2001) has two, all of these from the Psalms. --www.jubilate.co.uk/about

Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "What Adam's disobedience cost" in Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

C. Warwick Jordan

1840 - 1909 Person Name: C. W. Jordan, 1840-1909 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "GEORGIA" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Born: January 27, 1841, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Died: August 30, 1909, Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, England. Cremated: Golders Green, London, England. Jordan began his musical career as a chorister, first at Bristol Cathedral and later at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was educated at Oxford (BMus 1869), and received the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music in 1886. A champion of plainsong, he was an honorary organist of the London Gregorian Association, where he took a prominent part in the annual festivals at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was a professor of organ and harmony at the Guildhall School of Music, and an honorary fellow, examiner and treasurer of the Royal College of Organists. Jordan held organist positions at St. Paul’s, Bunhill Row (1857); St. Luke’s Holloway (1860); and from 1866 until his death at St. Stephen’s Church, Lewisham (where he was also choir master). His works include: One Hundred and Fifty Harmonies (London: Novello, Ewer & Company, 1880) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Henry Baker

1835 - 1910 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "VESPER NO. 3" in Redemption Songs Henry Baker, Mus. Bac., son of the Rev. James Baker, Chancellor of the diocese of Durham; born at Nuneham, Oxfordshire; educated at Winchester School; graduated Bachelor in Music at the University of Oxford in 1867. He also worked as a civil engineer. Scottish Church Music, its composers and sources by James Love; William Blackwwod and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1891

David Iliff

? - 2024 Person Name: David Iliff, b. 1939 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Arranger of "GRANDCHILDREN" in Common Praise

William Wright

Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "DUNELM (Wright)" William Wright was Director of Music and Organist at Deer Park United Church in Toronto from 1965-2009. He taught at the University of Toronto and at the Toronto School of Theology. Dianne Shapiro