Timothy Dudley-Smith: Hymn Writer

Personal Details

Born 26 December 1926 in Manchester, England.

Ordained deacon 1950, priest 1951
Archdeacon of Norwich, 1973-81
Bishop of Thetford, 1981-91

Since 1992 in retirement at 9 Ashlands, Ford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6DY, England

As a hymn writer, has published c. 300 hymn texts (no music, but many to well-known tunes) in four single-author collections, now subsumed into a larger collected edition, A House of Praise. Many such hymns appear in published hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and in translation. He is an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE 'for services to hymnody'.