William Tans'ur

His output includes approximately a hundred hymn tunes and psalm settings and a Te Deum.

Tans'ur was born in Dunchurch, Warwickshire to Edward Tanzer, a labourer, and Joan Alibone.

He taught psalmody in various places in the south-east of England, before moving to St Neots in Cambridgeshire, where he worked as a bookseller and music teacher, and spent the last forty years of his life.

One of his sons was a chorister at Trinity College, Cambridge and as an adult was also a bookseller and music teacher.

Many of the traits that may be thought unique to American psalmodists in fact characterize the compositions of their British cousins too.