Daniel Sedgwick (1814–1879) was an English hymnologist and bookseller.

Life

Daniel was born in London and baptised on 25 December 1814 at

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church, London. He was apprenticed as a shoemaker but in 1837 gave up his profession and started to sell books. He married Hannah Tatum in 1835. Daniel died on 10 March 1879; his wife Hannah was the executor of his will.Probate Indices

Works

He became an expert in theological books, especially hymn-books, later publishing reprints of some rare hymn-writers of the 17th and 18th century. He did not learn to write until 1840, but then began to edit and publish hymnological books, including ''A Comprehensive Index of ... Original Authors and Translators of Psalms and Hymns'' (1860, 2nd enlarged edn 1863). This brought him wide respect as a hymnologist, and he was consulted by many hymn-book editors, including

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, Josiah Miller, Sir Roundell Palmer (Lord Selbourne), and the editors of ''

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''. His manuscripts were used by

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in preparing the ''Dictionary of Hymnology'' of 1892. He was a careful scholar, though not always accurate, and he pioneered a branch of hymnological studies which many have since followed.

References

External links

Family page on Sedgwick family research site
;Attribution *This article incorporates text from '' The Enchiridion'' that is in the public domain. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sedgwick, Daniel Hymnologists 1814 births 1879 deaths 19th-century musicologists