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Great Hymn Writers Part 4
Continuing our series on great hymn writers we move through the 19th century and into the 20th with J B Dykes, How and Bridges.
J.B. DYKES
John Bacchus Dykes was born in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1823. His father was a bank manager. His grandfather was the well known old-school evangelical priest, the Rev'd. Thomas Dykes. The musical talents of the young John Dykes came out early. He could play by ear even before he received any instruction in music. He played the organ in his grandfather's church at the age of ten. John Dykes received his education at Wakefield proprietary school and Cambridge University. He graduated with Mathematical Honours in 1847 – the same year that he was made Deacon.
He was priested the following year. He served his curacy at Malton in Yorkshire and in 1849 he became at once Minor Canon and Precentor of Durham Cathedral as well as gaining a Doctorate in Music in the University of Durham. He married Susan Kingston in 1850 and together they had two sons and four daughters. Dr. Dyke's Precentorship ended in 1862 when he accepted the Vicarage of S. Oswald's in Durham. His musical ability and loving character had strongly influenced the Cathedral both musically and morally. His time at S. Oswald's led to a remarkable raising of the standards in the presentation of services. His preaching drew people from all over the city. Sadly, after some 12 years he came into conflict with his Bishop. These were the years when 'ritualism' was strongly resisted by many bishops. Dr. Dyke's struggles to maintain this great parish, now of course with no assistance from curates, led to a breakdown of both physical and mental health. He was finally laid to rest in his own churchyard of S. Oswald's on January 28th 1876. His music is not found only in Anglican hymnals – both Presbyterian and Congregational books contain some of his work. Among others are ones which we frequently use in our own worship:
Lead kindly light, Praise to the Holiest in the height, the King of love my Shepherd is, Jesu, lover of my soul, Our blest Redeemer, Holy, holy holy, and Eternal Father, strong to save, Our worship would be much the poorer without these powerful messages of hope and love.
BISHOP WILLIAM WALSAM HOW
Bishop How was another prolific hymn writer, and he really was an Anglican. In all he wrote 54 hymns, a number of which are still regularly sung. However, many are just too sentimental for the modern age. William How was born on December 13, 1823, the son of William Wyberg How, a Shrewsbury solicitor. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Wadham College, Oxford (B.A. 1845). he was ordered deacon in 1846 and ordained priest the following year. He then was successively curate at St. George's, Kidderminster and at Holy Cross, Shrewsbury. Then Rector of Whittington (1851-79). He was likewise diocesan inspector of schools in 1852-70, Rural Dean of Oswestry (1853-79), Prebendary of Llanfynydd and Chancellor of St. Asaph's Cathedral (1859-88), select preacher at Oxford (1868-69), Proctor of the Diocese of St. Asaph (1869-79), Examining Chaplain to the the Bishop of Lichfield (1878-79).
After having declined no less than five bishoprics, a canonry, and three important livings, he accepted the Suffragan See of Bedford (London Diocese) which meant episcopal supervision of East London, in 1879. In 1888 he was translated to the newly created See of Wakefield. In East London he became the inspiring influence of the revival of church work. He founded the East London Church Fund and enlisted a large band of helpers. He was immensely popular among all classes, being known as the 'omnibus bishop' because he rode the buses with his people rather than use his coach. He was also particularly fond of children and became known also as the 'childrens' bishop'. At Wakefield he was known as a gifted but straightforward preacher and several volumes of his sermons were published. He wrote prolifically, perhaps his best known works being Daily Prayers for Churchmen (London 1852), Manual for the Holy Communion (1868), Holy Communion Companion (1882), Lectures on Pastoral Work (1883), Commentary on the Four Gospels (4 vols., 1863-68), and The Closed Door: Instructions and Meditations given at Retreats and Quiet Days. As mentioned previously he wrote many hymns. He revised some existing hymn books and collaborated on the compilation of others.
His own hymns are collected in his Poems and Hymns (1886). Among them are O Jesus, thou art standing, We give thee but thine own, For all the saints who from their labour rest, Soldiers of Christ arise, and O, my Saviour lifted. He died in 1897 in the west of Ireland.
ROBERT BRIDGES
Robert Seymour Bridges was born into a landowning family in the Kentish port town of Walmar in 1844. Both the town and its most famous resident, the Duke of Wellington, featured in some of Bridges' lyrics. He was best known as a poet, and in 1913 was made Poet Laureate. He received his education at Eton College and Corpus Christi, Oxford. It was at Oxford that he became friends with Gerald Manley Hopkins. Hopkins was probably the better poet, but he only became known through Bridges having arranged the posthumous publication of his work in 1916. Bridges did not embark on a literary career immediately. He initially wanted to train as a priest in the Church of England. However, in 1869 he enrolled as a medical student in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He graduated in 1874 and became a casualty physician at St. Bartholomew's. He later became a physician to the Great (later Royal) Northern Hospital. Later again he worked at the Hospital for Sick Children. Bridges retired from his medical career in 1881 following a severe bout of pneumonia. He moved with his mother to Yattendon in Berkshire in 1882, where he lived until 1904. It was while he was in Yattendon that he met and married Monica Waterhouse, daughter of Alfred Waterhouse R.A.. . . Bridges' first collection of poetry was published long before his retirement though in 1873.
He developed a form of poetry which depended on the number of stresses in a line, rather than the syllables. He believed that poetry should follow the rhythms of natural speech. He was not really well known as a poet for many years – in the first instance his work was privately printed, mainly for a small circle of family and friends. Bridges' best known poems are to be found in two volumes of Shorter Poems (1890, 1894). For the long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty (1929) he received the Order of Merit. This particular work achieved a high degree of popularity shortly before his death. As Poet Laureate he wrote poems for the WWI period, initially ones of stirring patriotism, but later they reflected the appalling conditions of trench warfare.
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