Patrick Robert Norman Appleford (1925–9 December 2018)[1] was an English Anglican priest and hymnwriter.
Appleford found his vocation to the priesthood at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Beaumont was chaplain.
He studied for the ministry at Chichester and served his first curacy at All Saints Poplar, in the East End of London from 1952-8.
From 1961 to 1966 he served with USPG, then moved to Lusaka, Zambia as Dean and Rector of Cathedral of the Holy Cross until 1972.
[3] The music of his "New English Mass" set the emerging modern-language English texts of the Church of England communion service for congregational accessibility, establishing a trend which has been followed by many other composers of liturgical music.