- Real name
- Charles Henry Purday
- Born
- 1799
- Died
- 1885
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Comments
- Publisher, composer, lecturer and writer, who had a special interest in church music. He published "Crown Court Psalmody" (1854), "Church and Home Metrical Psalter and Hymnal" (1860), which included "Sandon" and - with Frances Havergal - "Songs of Peace and Joy" (1879). A precantor in the Scottish Church in Crown Court, London, Purday sang at the coronation of Queen Victoria. In the publishing field he is known as a strong proponent of better copyright laws to protect the works of authors and publishers.
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