Who's who of hymn writers
| Books | TheMusicSack | People |
|---|
| 1967 |
|---|
| The above item has biographical information on: |
|---|
| Abelard, Peter (b. 1079 d. 1142) | philosopher, poet |
| Addison, Joseph (b. 1672 d. 1719) | public servant, man of letters |
| Ainger, Arthur Campbell (b. 1841 d. 1919) | hymn writer, Elegist |
| Alexander, Cecil Frances (b. 1818 d. 1895) | composer |
| Alexander, James Waddell (b. 1804 d. 1859) | preacher, teacher |
| Alford, Henry (b. 1810 d. 1871) | psalmodist |
| Alington, Cyril Argentine (b. 1872 d. 1955) | hymn writer |
| Ambrose, Saint (b. 0340 d. 0397) | saint, bishop |
| Angelus Silesius, Johann (b. 1624 d. 1677) | poet |
| Anstice, Joseph (b. 1808 d. 1836) | hymn writer |
| Aquinas, Thomas (b. 1224 d. 1274) | Domenican priest, theologian |
| Armitage, Ella Sophia (b. 1841 d. 1931) | hymn writer |
| Auber, Henriette [Harriet] (b. 1773 d. 1862) | hymn writer, poet |
| Bacon, Leonard (b. 1802 d. 1881) | hymn writer |
| Baker, Henry Williams Sir (b. 1821 d. 1877) | musician, clergyman |
| Bakewell, John (b. 1721 d. 1819) | hymn writer |
| Baring Gould, Sabine (b. 1834 d. 1924) | clergyman, lyricist |
| Barton, Bernard (b. 1784 d. 1849) | hymn writer |
| Baxter, Richard (b. 1615 d. 1691) | hymn writer |
| Bayly, Albert Frederick (b. 1901 d. 1984) | hymn writer |
| Baynes, Robert Hall (b. 1831 d. 1895) | hymn writer |
| Beddome, Benjamin (b. 1717 d. 1795) | hymn writer |
| Bede (b. 0673 d. 0735 a. 8th century |
writer, historian |
| Beeching, Henry Charles (b. 1859 d. 1919) | hymn writer |
| Bell, George Kennedy Allen (b. 1883 d. 1958) | hymn writer |
| Benson, Louis Fitzgerald (b. 1855 d. 1930) | editor, psalmodist |
| Bernard de Cluny (a. 12th century |
| Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090 d. 1153) | statesman, theologian |
| Bianco da Siena (d. 1434) | hymn writer |
| Bickersteth, Edward Henry (b. 1825 d. 1906) | hymn writer |
| Binney, Thomas (b. 1798 d. 1874 a. 1849) | clergyman, writer |
| Blackie, John Stuart (b. 1809 d. 1895) | hymn writer |
| Blake, William (b. 1757 d. 1827) | poet |
| Bliss, Philip Paul (b. 1838 d. 1876) | itinerant Baptist music teacher, hymn composer |
| Bode, John Ernest (b. 1816 d. 1874) | hymn writer |
| Bonar, Horatius (b. 1808 d. 1889) | minister, editor |
| Borthwick, Jane Laurie (b. 1813 d. 1897) | hymn writer |
| Bowring, John (b. 1792 d. 1872) | hymn writer |
| Brady, Nicholas (b. 1659 d. 1726) | divine, poet |
| Brailsford, Edward John (b. 1841 d. 1921) | hymn writer |
| Bridges, Matthew (b. 1800 d. 1894 a. 19th century |
hymn writer |
| Bridges, Robert Seymour (b. 1844 d. 1930) | hymn writer |
| Briggs, George Wallace (b. 1875 d. 1959) | hymn writer |
| Bright, William (b. 1824 d. 1901) | hymn writer |
| Bromehead, Joseph (b. 1747 d. 1826) | hymn writer |
| Bronte, Anne (b. 1820 d. 1849) | hymn writer |
| Brooke, Stopford Augustus (b. 1832 d. 1916) | hymn writer |
| Brooks, Phillips (b. 1835 d. 1893) | Bishop of Massachusetts |
| Browne, Simon (b. 1680 d. 1732) | Pastor, author |
| Bryant, William Cullen (b. 1794 d. 1878) | poet |
| Buckoll, Henry James (b. 1803 d. 1871) | hymn writer |
| Bullock, William (b. 1798 d. 1874) | hymn writer |
| Bunyan, John (b. 1628 d. 1688) | hymn writer |
| Burleigh, William Henry (b. 1812 d. 1871) | hymnologist |
| Burns, James Drummond (b. 1823 d. 1864) | hymn writer |
| Butler, Henry Montagu (b. 1833 d. 1918) | hymn writer |
| Butler, Mary (b. 1841 d. 1916) | hymn writer |
| Byrom, John (b. 1692 d. 1763) | hymn writer |
| Campbell, Jane Montgomery (b. 1817 d. 1878) | hymn writer |
| Canton, William (b. 1845 d. 1926) | hymn writer |
| Caswall, Edward (b. 1814 d. 1878) | hymn writer |
| Cennick, John (b. 1718 d. 1755) | hymn writer |
| Chadwick, John White (b. 1840 d. 1904) | hymnologist |
| Chandler, John (b. 1806 d. 1875) | hymn writer |
| Charles, Elisabeth (Rundle) (b. 1828 d. 1896) | hymnologist, translator |
| Chatfield, Allen William (b. 1808 d. 1896) | hymn writer |
| Chisholm, Emily (b. 1910) | hymn writer |
| Claudius, Matthais (Asmus) (b. 1740 d. 1815) | poet, hymnologist |
| Clephane, Elizabeth Cecilia Curtis Douglas (b. 1830 d. 1869) | psalmodist |
| Coffin, Charles (b. 1676 d. 1749) | hymn composer |
| Coghill, Annie Louisa (b. 1836 d. 1907 a. 1858) | hymn writer |
| Conder, Eustace Rogers (b. 1820 d. 1892) | hymn writer |
| Conder, George William (b. 1821 d. 1874) | hymn writer |
| Conder, Joseph (b. 1789 d. 1855) | hymn writer |
| Cosin, John (b. 1594 d. 1671) | hymn writer |
| Cotton, George Edward Lynch (b. 1813 d. 1866) | hymn writer |
| Cousin, Anne Ross (b. 1824 d. 1906) | hymn writer |
| Cowper, William (b. 1731 d. 1800) | hymn writer |
| Cox, Frances Elizabeth (b. 1812 d. 1897) | hymn writer, translator |
| Coxe, Arthur Cleveland (b. 1818 d. 1896) | hymn writer |
| Crewdson, Jane (Fox) (b. 1809 d. 1863) | hymn writer |
| Croly, George (b. 1780 d. 1860) | hymn writer |
| Crosby, Fanny Jane (b. 1820 d. 1915) | poet, hymn writer |
| Crossman, Samuel (b. 1624 d. 1683) | hymn writer |
| Cushing, William Orcutt (b. 1823 d. 1902) | hymnologist |
| Darbyshire, John Russell (b. 1880 d. 1948) | hymn writer |
| Davies, Samuel (b. 1723 d. 1761) | hymnologist, presbyterian minister |
| Dearmer, Percy (b. 1867 d. 1936) | hymn writer |
| Dix, William Chatterton (b. 1837 d. 1898) | psalmodist, hymnist |
| Doane, George Washington (b. 1799 d. 1859 a. 1824) | PDM~ |
| Doddridge, Philip (b. 1702) | psalmodist, trombone |
| Downton, Henry (b. 1818 d. 1885) | hymn writer |
| Draper, William Henry (b. 1855 d. 1933) | hymn writer |
| Dryden, John (b. 1631 d. 1700) | poet, dramatist |
| Duffield, George (b. 1818 d. 1888) | psalmodist |
| Dugmore, Ernest Edward (b. 1843 d. 1925) | hymn writer |
| Duncan, Mary (b. 1814 d. 1840) | hymn writer |
| Dunkerley, William Arthur (b. 1852 d. 1941) | hymn writer |
| Edmeston, James (b. 1791 d. 1867) | psalmodist |
| Ellerton, John (b. 1826 d. 1893) | hymn writer |
| Elliott, Charlotte (b. 1789 d. 1871) | psalmodist, hymnist |
| Elliott, Ebenezer (b. 1781 d. 1849) | hymn writer |
| Elliott, Emily Elizabeth Steele (b. 1836 d. 1897) | hymn writer |
| Faber, Frederick William (b. 1814 d. 1863) | psalmodist |
| Fawcett, John (b. 1740 d. 1817) | hymn writer |
| Fletcher, Frank (b. 1870 d. 1954) | hymn writer |
| Flower, Sara (b. 1805 d. 1848) | poet, hymn composer |
| Fortunatus, Venantius (b. 0540 d. 0600) | poet, churchman |
| Fosdick, Harry Emerson (b. 1878 d. 1969) | hymnologist |
| Francis of Assis, Saint (b. 1182 d. 1226) | hymnologist |
| Gannett, William Channing (b. 1840 d. 1923) | hymnologist |
| Gaskell, William (b. 1805 d. 1884) | hymn writer |
| Gellert, Christian Furchtegott (b. 1715 d. 1769) | poet |
| Gerhardt, Paul (b. 1607 d. 1676) | poet |
| Gill, Thomas Hornblower (b. 1819 d. 1906) | hymn writer |
| Gladden, Washington (b. 1836 d. 1918) | hymnologist |
| Grant, Robert (b. 1779 d. 1838) | member of parliament, hymn writer |
| Gregory the Great (b. 0540 d. 0604) | pope, theologian |
| Grigg, Joseph (b. 1782 d. 1768) | hymn writer |
| Gunn, Henry Mayo (b. 1817 d. 1886) | hymn writer |
| Gurney, Dorothy Frances (b. 1858 d. 1932) | hymn writer |
| Gurney, John Hampden (b. 1802 d. 1862) | hymn writer |
| Hamilton, James (b. 1819 d. 1896) | hymn writer |
| Hankey, Arabella Catherine (b. 1834 d. 1911 a. 1866) | hymn writer |
| Harris, John (b. 1802 d. 1856) | hymn writer |
| Hart, Joseph (b. 1712 d. 1768 a. 1759-1762) | hymn writer |
| Hatch, Edwin (b. 1835 d. 1889) | hymn writer |
| Havergal, Frances Ridley (b. 1836 d. 1879) | hymn writer |
| Haweis, Thomas (b. 1734 d. 1820) | hymn writer |
| Hawks, Annie Sherwood (b. 1835 d. 1918) | hymnologist, poet |
| Hearn, Mary Anne (b. 1834 d. 1909) | hymn writer, Authoress |
| Heber, Reginald (b. 1783 d. 1826) | hymn writer, vicar |
| Heermann, Johann (b. 1585 d. 1647) | poet, clergyman |
| Hensley, Lewis (b. 1824 d. 1905) | hymn writer |
| Herbert, George (b. 1593 d. 1633) | poet |
| Hodder, Edwin (b. 1837 d. 1904 a. 1856-1861) | hymn writer |
| Holland, Henry Scott (b. 1847 d. 1918) | hymn writer |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell (b. 1809 d. 1894) | writer |
| Hopper, Edward (b. 1816 d. 1888) | hymnologist |
| Hopps, John Page (b. 1834 d. 1911) | hymn writer |
| Horne, Charles Silvester (b. 1865 d. 1914) | hymn writer |
| Hosmer, Frederick Lucian (b. 1840 d. 1929) | hymnologist |
| How, William Walsham (b. 1823 d. 1897) | Bishop, hymnist |
| Howe, Julia Ward (b. 1819 d. 1910) | poet, hymn writer |
| Hoyle, Richard Birch (b. 1875 d. 1939) | hymn writer |
| Hughes, Thomas (b. 1822 d. 1896) | hymn writer |
| Hunter, John (b. 1848 d. 1917) | hymn writer |
| Ingelow, Jean (b. 1820 d. 1897) | composer |
| Ingemann, Bernhardt Severin (b. 1789 d. 1862) | writer, hymn writer |
| John Damascene (b. 0675 d. 0749) | saint, Byzantine hymnographer |
| Johnson, Samuel (b. 1822 d. 1882) | hymnologist |
| Keble, John (b. 1792 d. 1866) | hymn writer |
| Kelly, Thomas (b. 1769 d. 1855) | clarinet, evangelical preacher |
| Ken, Thomas (b. 1637 d. 1710) | hymn writer |
| Kethe, William (b. CAD2> d. 1608 a. 1559) | hymn writer |
| Kingsley, Charles (b. 1819 d. 1875) | hymn writer |
| Kipling, Rudyard [Joseph Rudyard] (b. 1865 d. 1936) | author, lyricist |
| Lanier, Sidney (Clopton) (b. 1842 d. 1881) | poet, theorist |
| Lathbury, Mary Artemisia (b. 1841 d. 1913) | hymnologist |
| Lavater, Johann Caspar (b. 1741 d. 1801) | theologian |
| Leatham, Edith Rutter (b. 1870 d. 1939) | hymn writer |
| Leeson, Jane Eliza (b. 1809 d. 1881) | hymn writer |
| Leland, John (b. 1754 d. 1841) | hymnologist |
| Lewis, Howell Elvet (b. 1860 d. 1953) | hymn writer |
| Littledale, Richard Frederick (b. 1833 d. 1890) | hymn writer |
| Longfellow, Samuel (b. 1819 d. 1892) | poet, hymn writer |
| Longstaff, William Dunn (b. 1822 d. 1894) | hymn writer |
| Lowell, James Russell (b. 1819 d. 1891) | poet |
| Lowenstern, Matthaus Apelles (b. 1594 d. 1648) | poet, composer |
| Lowry, Somerset Thomas Corry (b. 1855 d. 1932) | hymn writer |
| Luke, Jemima [Thompson] (b. 1813 d. 1906) | hymn writer |
| Luther, Martin (b. 1483 d. 1546) | reformer, theologian |
| Lynch, Thomas Toke (b. 1818 d. 1871) | hymn writer, set design |
| Lyte, Henry Francis (b. 1793 d. 1847) | hymn writer |
| Mackellar, Thomas (b. 1812 d. 1899) | hymnologist |
| Macleod, Norman (b. 1812 d. 1872) | hymn writer |
| Mahlmann, Siegfried August (b. 1771 d. 1826) | poet |
| Mant, Richard (b. 1776 d. 1848) | hymn writer |
| Marriott, John (b. 1780 d. 1825) | hymn writer |
| Mathams, Walter John (b. 1853 d. 1931) | hymn writer |
| Matheson, George (b. 1842 d. 1906) | theologian, hymn writer |
| Matson, William Tidd (b. 1833 d. 1899) | hymn writer |
| Maude, Mary Fawler (b. 1819 d. 1913) | hymnist, Authoress |
| Medley, Samuel (b. 1738 d. 1799) | minister, hymnwriter |
| Merrick, James (b. 1720 d. 1769) | hymn writer |
| Merrill, William Pierson (b. 1867 d. 1954) | hymnologist |
| Midlane, Albert (b. 1825 d. 1909) | organ, composer |
| Milman, Henry Hart (b. 1791 d. 1868) | hymn writer |
| Milton, John (b. 1608 d. 1674) | poet |
| Mohr, Josef (b. 1792 d. 1848) | priest, writer |
| Monsell, John Samuel Bewley (b. 1811 d. 1875) | hymn writer |
| Montgomery, James (b. 1771 d. 1854) | author, director |
| Morrison, John (b. 1749 d. 1798) | hymnologist |
| Mudie, Charles Edward (b. 1818 d. 1890) | hymn writer |
| Neale, John Mason (b. 1818 d. 1866) | hymn writer |
| Neander, Joachim (b. 1650 d. 1680) | theologian, poet |
| Newman, John Henry (b. 1801 d. 1890) | cardinal, hymn writer |
| Newton, John (b. 1725 d. 1807) | cast, hymn writer |
| Noel, Caroline Maria (b. 1817 d. 1877) | hymn writer |
| North, Frank Mason (b. 1850 d. 1935) | hymnologist |
| Oakeley, Frederick (b. 1802 d. 1880) | hymn writer |
| Oakley, Charles Edward (b. 1832 d. 1865) | hymn writer |
| Olivers, Thomas [Oliver] (b. 1725 d. 1799) | preacher, hymnwriter |
| Owens, Priscilla Jane (b. 1829 d. 1907) | hymnologist |
| Palgrave, Francis Turner (b. 1824 d. 1897) | hymn writer |
| Palmer, Ray (b. 1808 d. 1887) | pastor, hymn writer |
| Parker, William Henry (b. 1845 d. 1929) | hymn writer |
| Patrick, Saint (b. 0381 d. 0461) | hymn writer |
| Pennefather, William (b. 1816 d. 1873) | hymn writer |
| Penstone, Maria Matilda (b. 1859 d. 1910) | hymn writer |
| Perronet, Edward (b. 1726 d. 1792) | hymn writer, composer |
| Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden (b. 1816 d. 1895) |
| Pierpoint, Folliott Sandford (b. 1835 d. 1917) | hymn writer |
| Piggott, William Charter (b. 1872 d. 1943) | hymn writer |
| Placzek, Joyce (b. 1901 d. 1953) | hymn writer |
| Plumptre, Edward Hayes (b. 1821 d. 1891) | hymn writer |
| Pott, Francis (b. 1832 d. 1909) | hymn writer |
| Potter, Thomas Joseph (b. 1828 d. 1873) | hymn writer |
| Proctor, Adelaide Anne (b. 1825 d. 1864) | hymn writer |
| Prudentius, Aurelius Clements (b. 0348 d. 0413) | poet, hymn writer |
| Pusey, Philip (b. 1799 d. 1855) | hymn writer |
| Quarles, John (b. 1624 d. 1665) | hymn writer |
| Rankin, Jeremiah Eames (b. 1828 d. 1904) | hymn writer |
| Rawson, George (b. 1807 d. 1889) | hymn writer |
| Reed, Andrew (b. 1787 d. 1862) | hymn writer |
| Riley, John Athelstan Laurie (b. 1858 d. 1945) | hymn writer |
| Rinckart, Martin (b. 1586 d. 1648) | poet, clergyman |
| Rippon, John (b. 1751 d. 1836) | clergyman, composer |
| Robinson, Robert (b. 1735 d. 1790) | minister, hymn writer |
| Rossetti, Christina Georgina (b. 1830 d. 1894) | author, hymn writer |
| Ryland, John (b. 1753 d. 1825) | hymn writer |
| Sammis, John H. (b. 1846 d. 1919 a. 1909) | hymnologist |
| Scott, Lesbia Lesley (b. 1898 d. 1986) | hymn writer |
| Scriven, Joseph (Medlicott) (b. 1819 d. 1886) | hymn writer |
| Sears, Edmond Hamilton (b. 1810 d. 1876) | hymnologist |
| Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton (b. 1862 d. 1917) | hymnologist |
| Shuttleworth, Henry Cary (b. 1850 d. 1900) | hymn writer |
| Small, James Grindlay (b. 1817 d. 1888) | hymn writer |
| Smith, Walter Chalmers (b. 1824 d. 1908) | hymn writer |
| Smyttan, George Hunt (b. 1822 d. 1870) | hymn writer |
| Spitta, Philipp (b. 1801 d. 1859) | theologian, author |
| Spring-Rice, Cecil Arthur (b. 1859 d. 1918) | hymn writer |
| Steele, Anne (b. 1717 d. 1778) | hymnist |
| Stevenson, Isabel Stephana (b. 1843 d. 1890) | hymn writer |
| Stevenson, Lilian Sinclair (b. 1870 d. 1960) | hymn writer, translator |
| Stone, Samuel John (b. 1839 d. 1900) | clergyman, hymnist |
| Stowell, Hugh (b. 1799 d. 1865) | hymn writer |
| Symonds, John Addington (b. 1840 d. 1893) | hymnologist |
| Tarrant, William George (b. 1853 d. 1928) | hymn writer |
| Tate, Nahum (b. 1652 d. 1715) | librettista, poet |
| Tennyson, Alfred (b. 1809 d. 1892) | composer, lyricist |
| Tersteegen, Gerhard (b. 1697 d. 1769) | hymn writer |
| Thring, Godfrey (b. 1823 d. 1903) | hymnologist |
| Tilak, Narayan Vaman (b. 1862 d. 1919) |
| Toplady, Augustus Montague (b. 1740 d. 1778) | hymn writer |
| Tritton, Joseph (b. 1819 d. 1887) | hymn writer |
| Tuttiett, Lawrence (b. 1825 d. 1897) | hymnist |
| Tweedy, Henry Hallam (b. 1868 d. 1953) | hymnologist |
| Twells, Henry (b. 1823 d. 1900) | hymn writer |
| Vaughan, Henry (b. 1622 d. 1695) | hymn writer |
| Walter, Howard Arnold (b. 1883 d. 1918) | missionary, hymnologist |
| Waring, Anna Laetitia (b. 1823 d. 1910) | hymnist |
| Warner, Anna Bartlett (b. 1820 d. 1915) | hymnologist |
| Watts, Isaac (b. 1674 d. 1748) | hymn writer, miscellaneous writer |
| Wesley, Charles (b. 1707 d. 1788) | divine, hymn writer |
| Wesley, John Benjamin (b. 1703 d. 1791) | clergyman |
| White, Henry Kirke (b. 1785 d. 1806) | hymn writer |
| Whiting, William (b. 1825 d. 1878) | hymn writer |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf (b. 1807 d. 1892) | poet, author of hymn texts |
| Williams, William (b. 1717 d. 1791) | hymn writer |
| Willis, Love Maria (b. 1824 d. 1908) | hymn writer |
| Winkworth, Catherine (b. 1827 d. 1878) | hymn writer |
| Wolcott, Samuel (b. 1813 d. 1886) | hymnologist |
| Woodward, George Ratcliffe (b. 1848 d. 1934) | hymn writer |
| Wordsworth, Christopher (b. 1807 d. 1885) | hymn writer |
| Wreford, John Reynell (b. 1800 d. 1881) | hymn writer |
| Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig (b. 1700 d. 1760) | Lutheran pietist |