Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 40 · British Voices of the Nineteenth Century · Page 60 in print
For All the Saints
William How’s “For All the Saints” first appeared in an 1864 collection compiled by Horatio Nelson, third Earl Nelson; it printed words without music.
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The words
Apostles
One group honored in an original stanza of How’s hymn.
Arthur Troyte
The composer of a chant paired with the text in 1875.
Bell and Daldy
The publishers of the 1864 collection.
Church Hymns
The 1871 collection containing How’s revised text.
Horatio Nelson
The third Earl Nelson who compiled the 1864 collection.
John Morgan
The publisher of the 1867 supplement.
Joseph Barnby
The composer of an earlier tune for the text.
Martyrs
Another group honored in an original stanza of the hymn.
Morrell
How’s co-editor of the 1867 supplement.
Shropshire
The county containing How’s parish.
Sine Nomine
Vaughan Williams’s 1906 tune for the hymn.
St Philip
Another name for Barnby’s tune.
Whittington
How’s parish when the hymn was first published.
William Hayes
The composer of a chant paired with How’s text in 1874.
William How
The hymn’s author William Walsham How.
Sources
- For all the saintsChris Fenner, Hymnology Archive; reproduced 1864, 1867, 1871, 1869 and 1906 editions