Hymn Writers Biographies

Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832–1916) was an Irish-born divine, man of letters, and chaplain to Queen Victoria whose theological journey led him from the vanguard of …

Stuart Hamblen (1908–1989), born Carl Stuart Hamblen, was a towering figure in American media who seamlessly pivoted from being radio’s very first "singing cowboy" to …

Short Name: Stuart Townend Full Name: Townend, Stuart Birth Year: 1963 Death Year: — Stuart Townend was born in 1963 in West Yorkshire, England. He …

Susan H. Peterson (1950–2004) was an American mathematician, Christian missiologist, editor, and prolific modern hymn writer. Blending an analytical educational background with a deep passion …

Susan Bogert Warner (1819–1885) was an extraordinarily popular 19th-century American evangelical novelist, children’s writer, and hymn writer. Writing under the pen name Elizabeth Wetherell, she …

Susannah Harrison (1752–1784) was an 18th-century English domestic servant, self-taught poet, and hymn writer. Destitute, uneducated, and bedridden with a terminal illness by her early …

Sydney Bertram Carter (1915–2004) was an English poet, lyricist, folk musician, and radical hymn writer. A central figure in the mid-20th-century British folk music revival, …

The New Metrical Version of the Psalms to one of two major developments in the history of English hymnody: the 1696 "Tate and Brady" version …

The Psalter (1912) The Psalter (1912) is a historic English-language hymnbook published in the early 20th century as a complete metrical Psalter for congregational worship. …

Bede (c. 672–735), universally known as The Venerable Bede, was an English monk, theologian, chronologist, and polymath who spent his entire life at the joint …

Theodore Baker (1851–1934) was an American musicologist, editor, lexicographer, and translator whose foundational scholarship shaped the landscape of music reference. As a pioneering researcher of …

Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 1471) was a Late Medieval German-Dutch canon regular, copyist, and mystic whose work served as the literary and theological …