Hymn Writers of the Church

About this book

A handbook of short biographies of hymn writers, compiled by Charles S. Nutter and published in 1911. Arranged for ready reference, it gives the essential facts about the authors behind the church's hymns, from the early centuries to Nutter's own day. It serves singers and students who want to know whose words they are singing and the lives from which the hymns came.

Contents

1. Adams, Sarah Flower
2. Addison, Joseph
3. Alexander, Cecil Frances
4. Alexander, James Waddell
5. Alford, Henry
6. Amis, Lewis Randolph
7. Andrew of Crete
8. Anstice, Joseph
9. Auber, Harriet
10. Babcock, Maltbie Davenport
11. Baker, Sir Henry Williams
12. Bakewell, John
13. Barbauld, Anna Letitia
14. Barber, Mary Ann Serrett
15. Baring-Gould, Sabine
16. Barton, Bernard
17. Bateman, Henry
18. Bathurst, William Hiley
19. Baxter, Lydia
20. Baxter, Richard
21. Beddome, Benjamin
22. Bernard of Clairvaux
23. Bernard of Cluny
24. Berridge, John
25. Bethune, George Washington
26. Bickersteth, Edward Henry
27. Blacklock, Thomas
28. Bode, John Ernest
29. Boehm, Anthony Wilhelm
30. Bonar, Horatius
31. Bonar, Jane Catherine
32. Borthwick, Jane
33. Bourignon, Antoinette 🔒
34. Bourne, William St. Hill 🔒
35. Bowring, Sir John 🔒
36. Brace, Seth Collins 🔒
37. Brady, Nicholas 🔒
38. Brewer, Leigh Richmond 🔒
39. Bridges, Matthew 🔒
40. Bromehead, Joseph 🔒
41. Brooks, Charles Timothy 🔒
42. Brooks, Phillips 🔒
43. Brown, Phoebe Hinsdale 🔒
44. Browne, Simon 🔒
45. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 🔒
46. Bryant, William Cullen 🔒
47. Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf 🔒
48. Burleigh, William Henry 🔒
49. Burns, James Drummond 🔒
50. Burton, Henry 🔒
51. Campbell, Jane Montgomery 🔒
52. Campbell, Margaret Cockburn 🔒
53. Carney, Julia A. 🔒
54. Cary, Phoebe 🔒
55. Caswall, Edward 🔒
56. Cawood, John 🔒
57. Cennick, John 🔒
58. Charles, Elizabeth Rundle 🔒
59. Chorley, Henry Fothergill 🔒
60. Claudius, Matthias 🔒
61. Clement of Alexandria 🔒
62. Codner, Elizabeth 🔒
63. Coghill, Annie Louisa 🔒
64. Collyer, William Bengo 🔒
65. Colquhoun, Frances Sara 🔒
66. Conder, Josiah 🔒
67. Copeland, Benjamin 🔒
68. Cotterill, Jane 🔒
69. Cotterill, Thomas 🔒
70. Cowper, Frances Maria 🔒
71. Cowper, William 🔒
72. Cox, Christopher Christian 🔒
73. Cox, Samuel Keener 🔒
74. Coxe, Arthur Cleveland 🔒
75. Crewdson, Jane 🔒
76. Croly, George 🔒
77. Crosby, Fanny Jane 🔒
78. Cross, Ada Cambridge 🔒
79. Cummins, James John 🔒
80. Cutter, William 🔒
81. Davies, Samuel 🔒
82. Decius, Nicolaus 🔒
83. Deems, Charles Force 🔒
84. Denny, Sir Edward 🔒
85. Dessler, Wolfgang Christopher 🔒
86. Dexter, Henry Martyn 🔒
87. Dix, William Chatterton 🔒
88. Doane, George Washington 🔒
89. Doane, William Crosswell 🔒
90. Doddridge, Philip 🔒
91. Dryden, John 🔒
92. Duffield, George 🔒
93. Dwight, John Sullivan 🔒
94. Dwight, Timothy 🔒
95. Edmeston, James 🔒
96. Ela, David Hough 🔒
97. Ellerton, John 🔒
98. Elliott, Charlotte 🔒
99. Elliott, Emily Elizabeth Steele 🔒
100. Esling, Catherine Harbison 🔒
101. Evans, William Edwin 🔒
102. Everest, Charles William 🔒
103. Faber, Frederick William 🔒
104. Fabricius, Jacob 🔒
105. Farrar, Frederick William 🔒
106. Fawcett, John 🔒
107. Findlater, Sarah Borthwick 🔒
108. Fortunatus, Venantius 🔒
109. Francis, Benjamin 🔒
110. Freckelton, Thomas Wesley 🔒
111. Gerhardt, Paul 🔒
112. Gibbons, Thomas 🔒
113. Gilder, Richard Watson 🔒
114. Gill, Thomas Hornblower 🔒
115. Gilman, Samuel 🔒
116. Gilmore, Joseph Henry 🔒
117. Gladden, Washington 🔒
118. Goode, William 🔒
119. Grant, Robert 🔒
120. Greg, Samuel 🔒
121. Grigg, Joseph 🔒
122. Gurney, Dorothy Frances 🔒
123. Gustavus Adolphus 🔒
124. Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte 🔒
125. Hall, Christopher Newman 🔒
126. Hammond, William 🔒
127. Hankey, Katherine 🔒
128. Hart, Joseph 🔒
129. Hastings, Thomas 🔒
130. Hatch, Edwin 🔒
131. Hatfield, Edwin Francis 🔒
132. Havergal, Frances Ridley 🔒
133. Haweis, Hugh Reginald 🔒
134. Hawker, Robert 🔒
135. Hawks, Annie Sherwood 🔒
136. Hay, John 🔒
137. Hayward 🔒
138. Hearn, Marianne 🔒
139. Heath, George 🔒
140. Heber, Reginald 🔒
141. Hedge, Frederick Henry 🔒
142. Herbert, George 🔒
143. Herbert, Petrus 🔒
144. Holden, Oliver 🔒
145. Holland, Josiah Gilbert 🔒
146. Holmes, Oliver Wendell 🔒
147. Hopper, Edward 🔒
148. Hopps, John Page 🔒
149. Hosmer, Frederick Lucian 🔒
150. Hoss, Elijah Embree 🔒
151. How, William Walsham 🔒
152. Hunter, William 🔒
153. Hutton, Frances A. 🔒
154. Ingemann, Bernhardt Severin 🔒
155. Irons, William Josiah 🔒
156. Jacobi, John Christian 🔒
157. Jacopone da Todi 🔒
158. John of Damascus 🔒
159. Johnson, E. 🔒
160. Johnson, Samuel 🔒
161. Jones, Edmund 🔒
162. Julian, John 🔒
163. Keble, John 🔒
164. Keen, R. 🔒
165. Kelly, Thomas 🔒
166. Ken, Thomas 🔒
167. Kethe, William 🔒
168. Kimball, Harriet McEwen 🔒
169. Kipling, Rudyard 🔒
170. Lanier, Sidney 🔒
171. Lathbury, Mary Artemisia 🔒
172. Leeson, Jane Elizabeth 🔒
173. Lloyd, William Freeman 🔒
174. Longfellow, Samuel 🔒
175. Luke, Jemima Thompson 🔒
176. Luther, Martin 🔒
177. Lynch, Thomas Toke 🔒
178. Lyte, Henry Francis 🔒
179. Macduff, John Ross 🔒
180. Mackay, Margaret 🔒
181. Macleod, Norman 🔒
182. Madan, Martin 🔒
183. Malan, Henri Abraham Caesar 🔒
184. March, Daniel 🔒
185. Marcy, Elizabeth Eunice 🔒
186. Marriott, John 🔒
187. Marsden, Joshua 🔒
188. Mason, John 🔒
189. Massie, Richard 🔒
190. Matheson, George 🔒
191. McDonald, William 🔒
192. Medley, Samuel 🔒
193. Messenger, John Alexander 🔒
194. Midlane, Albert 🔒
195. Miller, Emily Huntington 🔒
196. Mills, Henry 🔒
197. Milman, Henry Hart 🔒
198. Milton, John 🔒
199. Mohr, Joseph 🔒
200. Monod, Theodore 🔒
201. Monsen, John Samuel Bewley 🔒
202. Montgomery, James 🔒
203. Moore, Thomas 🔒
204. Mote, Edward 🔒
205. Moultrie, Gerard 🔒
206. Muhlenberg, William Augustus 🔒
207. Neale, John Mason 🔒
208. Needham, John 🔒
209. Neumark, Georg 🔒
210. Newman, John Henry 🔒
211. Newton, John 🔒
212. Noel, Gerard Thomas 🔒
213. North, Frank Mason 🔒
214. Olivers, Thomas 🔒
215. Palmer, Ray 🔒
216. Park, Roswell 🔒
217. Perronet, Edward 🔒
218. Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden 🔒
219. Pierpoint, Folliott Sanford 🔒
220. Pierpont, John 🔒
221. Plumptree, Edward Hayes 🔒
222. Pott, Francis 🔒
223. Potter, Thomas Joseph 🔒
224. Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson 🔒
225. Procter, Adelaide Anne 🔒
226. Prynne, George Rundle 🔒
227. Rabanus Maurus 🔒
228. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames 🔒
229. Rawson, George 🔒
230. Reed, Andrew 🔒
231. Rice, Caroline Laura 🔒
232. Richter, Christian Frederic 🔒
233. Rinkart, Martin 🔒
234. Robert IX. 🔒
235. Roberts, Daniel C. 🔒
236. Robinson, George 🔒
237. Robinson, Richard Hayes 🔒
238. Robinson, Robert 🔒
239. Rodigast, Samuel 🔒
240. Roscoe, William 🔒
241. Rothe, Johann Andreas 🔒
242. Scheffler, Johann Angelus 🔒
243. Schmolke, Benjamin 🔒
244. Scott, Thomas 🔒
245. Scott, Sir Walter 🔒
246. Scriven, Joseph 🔒
247. Seagrave, Robert 🔒
248. Sears, Edward Hamilton 🔒
249. Seymour, Aaron Crossley Hobart 🔒
250. Shepherd, Thomas 🔒
251. Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton 🔒
252. Slade, Mary B. C. 🔒
253. Singleton, Robert Corbet 🔒
254. Smith, Samuel Francis 🔒
255. Spangenberg, Augustus Gottlieb 🔒
256. Spitta, Carl Johann Philipp 🔒
257. Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn 🔒
258. Steele, Anne 🔒
259. Stennett, Joseph 🔒
260. Stennett, Samuel 🔒
261. Stockton, John Hart 🔒
262. Stone, Samuel John 🔒
263. Stowe, Harriet Beecher 🔒
264. Stowell, Hugh 🔒
265. Stratton, Lovie Ricker 🔒
266. Strong, Nathan 🔒
267. Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey 🔒
268. Swain, Joseph 🔒
269. Tappan, William Brigham 🔒
270. Tate, Nahum 🔒
271. Taylor, Thomas Rawson 🔒
272. Tennyson, Alfred 🔒
273. Tersteegen, Gerhard 🔒
274. Theodulph 🔒
275. Thomas of Celano 🔒
276. Thomson, Mary Ann 🔒
277. Thring, Godfrey 🔒
278. Toplady, Augustus Montague 🔒
279. Tuttiett, Lawrence 🔒
280. Twells, Henry 🔒
281. Unknown 🔒
282. Van Alstyne, Mrs. Fanny Crosby 🔒
283. Vokes, Mrs. 🔒
284. Walford, William W. 🔒
285. Ware, Henry 🔒
286. Waring, Anna Laetitia 🔒
287. Warner, Anna Bartlett 🔒
288. Warren, Willis Fairfield 🔒
289. Waterbury, Jared Bell 🔒
290. Watts, Isaac 🔒
291. Wells, Marcus Morris 🔒
292. Wesley, Charles 🔒
293. Wesley, John 🔒
294. Wesley, Samuel 🔒
295. West, Robert Athow 🔒
296. White, Henry Kirke 🔒
297. Whittier, John Greenleaf 🔒
298. Williams, Helen Maria 🔒
299. Williams, William 🔒
300. Willis, Nathaniel Parker 🔒
301. Winchester, Caleb Thomas 🔒
302. Winckler, John Joseph 🔒
303. Winkworth, Catherine 🔒
304. Wolcott, Samuel 🔒
305. Woodhull, Alfred Alexander 🔒
306. Wordsworth, Christopher 🔒
307. Wreford, John Reynell 🔒
308. Xavier, Francis 🔒
309. Zinzendorf, Count Nicolaus Ludwig 🔒