Henry Cary Shuttleworth (20 October 1850 - 24 October 1900) was a Church of England priest, theologian and hymn writer, two of them being 'Father, ere yet another day is ended' and 'Father of men, in Whom are one.'. He also lectured in church history and pastoral and liturgical theology at King's College London.
Life He was born in the vicarage at Egloshayle in Cornwall to the Rev. Edward Shuttleworth, a Canon of Truro Cathedral and studied at St Mary's Hall in Oxford, graduating BA in 1873, the same year as he was ordained deacon by John Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford.John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
He was priested in 1874 and his first posts were as curate at St Barnabas Church, Oxford and chaplain to Christ Church Oxford, before in 1876 he became a Minor Canon of St Paul's Cathedral.'Professor Shuttleworth', Weekly Times & Echo (London), 28 October 1900, page 5 He was appointed Rector of St Nicholas Cole Abbey in the City of London in 1883 and the same year made Thomas Hancock lecturer of that parish.'Death of Professor Shuttleworth', Westminster Gazette, 24 October 1900, page 5
Works The Last Words of the Saviour. Addresses delivered at St. Barnabas, Oxford, etc., 1875 The Last Words of Our Saviour. Addresses delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral on Good Friday, 1878, 1879 Our Vicar's Stories, 1883 Songs, 1885 Social Repentance. A sermon on Luke xix. 42., 1888 The Place of Music in Public Worship, 1892 The Christian Church and the Problem of Poverty, 1894 Hymns for Private Use, 1896 Addresses to Lads ..., 1897 and 1907 “Be Ye Good Bankers", 1899 The Two Crowns, and other stories, 1904 Poems and hymns, 1907 (with Edward H A Koch and Henry Scott Holland)
Editor The Diary of an Actress, or, Realities of stage life., 1885 Some Aspects of Disestablishment. Essays by Clergymen of the Church of England., 1894
Other Supplemental Hymns. For use in the Church of St. Nicholas Cole-Abbey, preface by H C Shuttleworth, 1890 Hymns for Private Use, brought together by H. C. Shuttleworth., 1895 St. Nicholas Cole-Abbey. Hymnal appendix: compiled by H. C. Shuttleworth, 1897
References
Bibliography Henry Cary Shuttleworth. A memoir. Edited by G. W. E. Russell, 1903
External links Henry Cary Shuttleworth at Hymnary.org