Samuel John Stone
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Life and career
Stone was born on 25 April 1839 at his father's rectory in the parish of Whitmore, Staffordshire.[1] His father, William, was a Hebrew scholar and a botanist alongside his clerical work, who had published various works including a six volume religious epic and various compilations of hymns. Samuel had one sister, Sarah, who was born two years after him.[1] When Samuel was 13 the family moved to London where his father had obtained a curacy.[1]
Following his schooling at Charterhouse he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, gaining a BA in 1862 and being awarded an MA in 1872. During that period too he was awarded the 1866 prize for a poem on a religious subject, in this case on Sinai, but was then deprived of it since he was no longer on the college books.[2] He served a curacy in New Windsor from 1862 and while there wrote for his congregation the hymns of Lyra Fidelium, in which his most famous hymn, The Church's One Foundation, appears.[3] In 1870 he moved to St. Paul's, Haggerston where, in 1874, he became the vicar.[1][4] He remained at Haggerston for twenty years before taking up his final post at All Hallows' London Wall also in London.[1][5]
Stone died on 19 November 1900.
Select Bibliography
Poems
- The Knight of Intercession (1872)
- Sonnets of the Sacred Year (1875)
- Deare Chylde, a Parish Idyll (1877)
- Lays of Iona and other poems (1897)
- Poems and Hymns (1903)
Hymns
- Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles' Creed (1866) including "The Church's One Foundation".
- Hymns (1886)
References
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- ↑ "Samuel John Stone", The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, Canterbury Press, accessed 15 August 2020
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