 
	 
	
		1865 - 1959 Person Name: Laurence Housman, 1865-1959 Translator of "O Light of Light, Love given birth" in The Hymnal 1982 Housman, Lawrence, author and artist, was born July 18, 1867, at Bromsgrove, Worcs. His devotional poetry is principally in his Spikenard, 1898, and Bethlehem, 1902. To the English Hymnal, 1906, he contributed eight translations (142, 188, 191, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234); also three original hymns, with a fourth previously published, viz.:—
1.  Lord God of Hosts, within Whose hand.   St. George.
2.  The Maker of the  sun  and moon.   Christmas. From Bethlehem, 1902, p. 75.
3.  The Saint who first found grace to pen.   St. Mark.
4.  When   Christ   was   born   in   Bethlehem.   Holy Innocents.                                         [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement  (1907)
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Born: July 18, 1865, Bromsgrove, Hereford, England.
Died: February 20, 1959, Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
Buried: St. Mary’s, Bathwick, Smallcombe, near Bath.
Housman studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He had great success as an illustrator, but when his eyesight began to fail, he turned to writing books and plays. He wrote 80 books during his lifetime. He often seemed to fall afoul of the censors, though, for religious and political reasons. A committed socialist and pacifist, in 1907, he helped found the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. He was also an honorary associate of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. His works include:
    Jump-to-Glory Jane, by Meredith
    Goblin Market, by Christiantina Rossetti, 1893
    The End of Elfintown, by Jane Barlow, 1894
    Spikenard, 1898
    The Sensitive Plant, 1898
    Bethlehem, 1902
    The Blue Moon, 1904
    Angels and Ministers, 1921
    Little Plays of St. Francis, 1922
    Victoria Regina, 1937
    The Unexpected Years, 1937 (autobiography)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
 
			
	Laurence Housman