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Elizabeth J. Smith

b. 1956 Person Name: Elizabeth J. Smith, 1956- Author of "Where wide sky rolls down" in Together in Song

1855 - 1935 Person Name: Alan Gray (1855-1935) Composer (descant) of "HANOVER" in Common Praise (1998) Born: December 23, 1855, York, England. Died: September 27, 1935, Cambridge, England. Buried: Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Alan Gray (23 December 1855, York – 27 September 1935, Cambridge) was a British organist and composer. Born in York, he attended St Peter's School in York and Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1883 until 1893 he was Director of Music at Wellington College. In 1893 he returned to Cambridge to be organist at Trinity College, and remained organist there until 1930. Among his compositions are liturgical music for Morning and Evening Prayer and the Office of Holy Communion for use in the Church of England according to the Book of Common Prayer, including an Evening Service in f minor, a setting of Holy Communion in G, several anthems, including 'What are these that glow from afar?', and a collection of descants to various hymn tunes, several of which are still in use today (Common Praise (2000) includes four). He also composed a number of items for organ, for violin solo, and for voice and orchestra to religious and secular texts. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

John Barathi

Person Name: S. John Barathi Translator of "நாம் போற்றிடுவோம்" in The Cyber Hymnal

K. Tower

Author of "You came from the West" in The Liturgy of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives

Harvey Grace

1874 - 1944 Person Name: Harvey Grace (1874-1944) Arranger (Fauxbourdon) of "HANOVER" in Common Praise (1998)

H. E. Govan

Author of "When Tempests Are High" in Songs of Victory

Irving Clinton Tomlinson

1860 - 1944 Person Name: Irving C. Tomlinson Author of "O peace of the world" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Tomlinson, Irving Clinton. (Perry, New York, 1860--1944). Graduated from Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883; and Tufts Divinity School, B.D., 1888. From 1889 to 1896 he was pastor of the First Universalist Church, Saugus, Massachusetts, and a social worker in the Boston area. From 1899 to 1940 he was a Christian Science practitioner, teacher, and lecturer. He was the author of Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (1945). --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Ieuan Glan Geirionydd

1795 - 1855 Person Name: E. E. Author of "Gogoniant tragwyddol" in Old and New Welsh and English Hymns Bardic name: Ieuan Glan Geiriondd, born Evan Evans, ============== Evans, Evan. [Glangeirionydd.] Born at Trefriw in Caernarvonshire. He is considered the chief Welsh Hymn-writer of this century, as Williams was of the last century. He published two books of hymns and tunes between 1829 and 1841. He was Vicar of Rhyl, and died in 1850. Although his hymn-books and tunes are not in use now, yet many of his hymns are found in every collection in Wales. [Rev. W. Glanffrwd Thomas] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)