{{Short description|Hymnodist, editor and translator}} {{About|the hymnodist and hymnologist|the symphonist born in Cheshire|John Lodge Ellerton}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = John Ellerton | image = John Ellerton.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1826|12|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Clerkenwell]], [[Middlesex]], England | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1893|06|15|1826|12|16|df=y}}}} | background = non_performing_personnel | occupation = Chaplain, hymodist, hymnologist }} '''John Ellerton''' (16 December 1826 – 15 June 1893) was a [[hymnodist]] and hymnologist.
==Life== He was born in [[Clerkenwell]], [[Middlesex]], England, to George Ellerton, the head of an evangelical family. He was educated at [[King William's College]] on the [[Isle of Man]], and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (B.A. 1849; M.A. 1854),<ref>{{acad|id=ELRN845J|name=Ellerton, John}}</ref> where he came under the influence of [[Frederick Denison Maurice|F. D. Maurice]]. He died in [[Torquay]], [[Devon]], England, aged 66.
==Service== Taking orders in 1850, he was curate of [[Easebourne]], [[Sussex]]. In 1852, he was in [[Brighton]] and lecturer of St. Peter's, Brighton.
In 1860, he became chaplain for Lord Crewe and vicar of [[Crewe Green]] in [[Cheshire]], about thirty miles southeast of [[Liverpool]]. He became chairman of the education committee at the Mechanics Institute for the local Railway Company. Reorganizing the institute, he made it one of the most successful in England. He taught classes in English and Bible history. He also organised one of the first choral associations of the Midlands.
In 1872, he became rector of [[Hinstock]], [[Shropshire]]. In 1876, he was transferred to [[Barnes, London|Barnes]], (then in [[Surrey]]), a western suburb of London. The work among a large population broke him down and he had to go abroad for a year, serving as chaplain at [[Pegli]] in [[Italy]] from 1884 to 1885. After returning, he took a smaller parish in [[White Roding]] in 1886, his last.<ref>Ellerton, John; Houseman, Henry; ''John Ellerton: Being a Collection of His Writings on Hymnology, Together with a Sketch of His Life and Works'', [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]], 1896 p. 157.</ref> During his final illness, he was given the honorary title of Canon of [[St. Albans Cathedral]].
==Published works== Ellerton was best known as a hymnologist, editor, hymn-writer and translator. He published ''Hymns for Schools and Bible Classes'' in Brighton in 1859. He was co-editor with [[William Walsham How]] and others of the [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]] (SPCK) ''Church Hymns'', 1871. His ''Notes and Illustrations of Church Hymns'' were published in the folio edition of 1881.
===Hymns=== Ellerton wrote or translated eighty-six or more hymns, including
* Our day of praise is done * Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise * Shine Thou Upon Us, Lord (music by [[Harriet Anne Smart]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Callow|first=H. A.|title=Hymnary.org|url=https://hymnary.org/search?qu=h+a+callow|access-date=2022-02-24|website=hymnary.org|language=en}}</ref> * [[The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended]]
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120401210952/http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/e/l/l/ellerton_j.htm Basic biographical information] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110617230224/http://ellerton.hostcell.net/Trees/George1714.htm Family tree back to 1714]
==Notes== *{{cite book | last =Julian | first =John | authorlink =John D. Julian | title =A Dictionary of Hymnology | url =https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofhymn02lond | publisher =John Murray | date =June 1907 | location =London | pages =826–828}} *{{cite book | last =Bailey | first =Albert Edward | title =The Gospel in Hymns | url =https://archive.org/details/gospelinhymnsbac00bail | url-access =registration | publisher =Charles Scribner's sons | year =1950 | location =New York | pages =[https://archive.org/details/gospelinhymnsbac00bail/page/424 424–430] }} *{{cite web | title =King William's College Register | url =http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/kw1905/p030.htm | access-date = 2007-01-17}}
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