Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 25, 1866, De­vizes, Wilt­shire, Eng­land.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 18, 1949, Bea­cons­field, Buck­ing­ham­shire, Eng­land.

Raised in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al­ist de­nom­in­a­tion, Gil­man was one of the found­ers of the So­ci­e­ty of Friends in Eng­land in 1916, and the Hymn So­ci­e­ty of Eng­land. He al­so helped ed­it the Friends’ Fel­low­ship Hymn-Book in 1909 and 1933. His works in­clude:

• Songs and Singers of Christendom, 1911
• The Sto­ry of Our Hymns, 1921
• The Evo­lu­tion of the Eng­lish Hymn (New York: The Mac­mill­an Com­pa­ny, 1927)

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1. God Send Us Men