Hymn Writers of the Church

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Brief lives of church hymn writers

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

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