William Garrett Horder D. D. (1841 - 1922)

Born 6 Oct 1841 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Annie (Morley) Horder — married 3 Jun 1868 in Belgrave Congregational Chapel, Torquay, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 20 Dec 1922 at age 81 in Charlbury, Victoria Road, Ealing, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

William Garrett Horder (1841-1922)

William Garrett Horder was born in 1841 at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He was the son of William Horder and Jane Garrett. ^[1]

Marriage

William Garrett Horder married Mary Annie Morley in 1868 at Belgrave Congregational Chapel, Torquay, Devon, England. ^[2]

From the Salisbury (Wiltshire, UK) Times, June 13, 1868: "Marriages. June 3, at Belgrave Congregational Church, Torquay, by the Rev. Robert Vaughan, D.D., the Rev. William Garrett Horder, of St. Helen's, Lancashire, son of Mr. Horder, grocer, Milford-street, Salisbury, to Mary Annie, second daughter of the late Richard Morley, Esq., of Leeds."^[3]

Obituary

The Middlesex County Times (London, England) printed an obituary of William Garrett Horder on 27 December 1922, which read, in part, "Mr. Horder received his theological training at the Countess of Huntingdon College, Cheshunt (since removed to Cambridge), and it was there that he contracted a friendship that resulted in his marriage. A fellow student with him was James Morley, father of the late Mr. James Morley, of Hanwell. The two young students became fast friends and visits by Mr. Horder to the home of the Morleys brought him into close touch with his friend's younger sister, Mary. Friendship ripened into love and the two eventually became husband and wife. Mary Morley was the second daughter of Richard Morley, of Leeds, and granddaughter of Richard Morley, several times mayor of Nottingham and founder of the well-known firm of J. and R. Morley. . . . On leaving Cheshunt Mr. Horder ministered first at St. Helens, Lancs, for three years and afterwards at Torquay, before becoming minister of Wood Green Congregational Church where he remained for twenty years building up an almost moribund church with a membership of only thirty into a flourishing organisation with over 200 regular members on its books. He soon began to attract notice by his preaching, and his Pleasant Evenings for the People drew together a crowded congregation largely composed of the working classes. During his ministry at Wood Green a considerable debt was paid off and the premises were restored and enlarged. In 1893 he accepted a call to the College Chapel, Bradford, where he remained three years. Had it not been that the keen northern air was unsuitable to his wife's somewhat delicate health, it is extremely unlikely that Mr. Horder would have come south again, but when in 1895 the pastorate of Ealing Congregational Church became vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John Byles, he welcomed the suggestion that he should preach at Ealing with a view to becoming minister here. His appointment was agreed to in January of the following year and the recognition service took place on April 14, 1896. . . . He retained the ministry of EalingCongregational Church until the beginning of this year, when failing health, against which he had long battled, made it imperative that he should retire."^[4]

William Garrett Horder passed away 20 December 1922 at Ealing, Middlesex, England. ^[5]

Books

• The Book of Praise for Children (London: H. K. Lewis, 1875)
• The Poets' Bible, New Testament (London: Wm. Isbister, 1881; revised edition 1883)
• Intimations of Immortality (London: Elliot Stock, 1883)
• Congregational Hymns: A Hymnal for the Free Churches (1884)
• Worship-Song: A Hymnal (London: Elliot Stock, 1885, 1910)
• The Home Sanctuary: Hymns for those Detained from Public Worship (1885)
• Is There A Future Life? (London: Elliot Stock, no date, but probably 1889)
• The Poets' Bible: Old Testament (London: Wm. Isbister, 1889)
• The Hymn Lover: An Account of the Rise and Growth of English Hymnody (London: J. Curwen, 1889)
• The Silent Voice and Other Discourses (London: Isbister & Co., 1890)
• Hymns Supplemental to Existing Collections (London: Elliot Stock, 1894)
• The Treasury of American Sacred Song (London: Henry Frowde, 1896; Revised and enlarged 1900)
• The Treasury of Hymns (London: Elliot Stock, 1896)
• Quaker Worthies (London: Headley Brothers, 1896)
• The Ambitions of St. Paul (London: Alexander & Shepheard, 1897)
• The Supreme Argument for Christianity: An Appeal to Facts (James Clarke & Co., 1899)
• Why? (1901)
• The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (Editor, London: Henry Frowde, 1904)
• The Newly-Found Words of Jesus (London: S. C. Brown, Langham & Co., 1904)
• Worship Song with Accompanying Tunes (London: Novello & Co. and Elliot Stock, 1905)
• England's Parnassus: An Anthology of Anthologies (London: Pitman, 1906; published in America in 1907 as The Parnassus of English Verse: An Anthology of Anthologies)
• The Other-World (London: Macmillan, 1908)
• An Ethical Diary (London: J. M. Dent, 1910)
• The God that Jesus Saw (London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1921; Pilgrim Press, 1922)
• Things to be Left Behind, Four Discourses - pamphlet (London, Elliot Stock, no date)

Awards and Honors

From the Times (Washington, DC), June 4, 1897: “The faculty of Howard University has conferred the following honorary degrees: . . . Doctor of Divinity - . . . W. Garrett Horder, London, England.”

From the Minneapolis Journal, March 31, 1901: “The Rev. W. G. Horder of London, the leading hymnologist of Great Britain, is under engagement to lecture on hymnology in Hartford, Conn., Theological seminary in May, 1902; and the conservatory [The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston] is negotiating for the repetition of his lectures in Boston, in the interests not only of its students, but of ministers and churches of all denominations.”

From the Star (Washington, DC), April 28, 1902: “Among the special anniversary features at Howard University, will be two lectures on the “Evolution of Modern Hymnology,” by W. Garrett Horder, D. D., of London, England. The same lectures Dr. Horder will deliver at New Haven and Princeton and Chicago.”

From the Star (Washington, DC), May, 1902: Mrs. Roosevelt held a reception for “hundreds of her friends in the White House garden. . . . President Roosevelt, just before setting out for his horseback ride, spent a while with the company.” Among the guests listed were the Rev. and Mrs. W. Garrett Horder.

From the 1902 Cornell University yearbook: The Rev. W. Garrett Horder, of London, England, gave a talk at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on June 1, 1902.^[6]

Census

1851 English Census, 2 New Road, St. George’s East, Middlesex, England: W. G. Horder, age 8, is living with his uncle Mark Brown Garrett in London.

1861 England Census - W. G. Horder, age 19, is living with his parents in Milford Street, Salisbury, and working as a grocer.

1871 England Census - Cheshunt Lodge, Torquay, Devon, England: William G. Horder, 29, Congregational Minister of Abbey Road Chapel, Torquay; Mary A. Horder, 29; Mary M. Horder, 1; Percy R. M. Horder, 5 months. Two servants are also living with them. William was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire; his wife in Leeds, Yorkshire; and the children in Torquay.

1881 England Census - 1 Pellat Villas, Tottenham, Middlesex, England:   William T. Horder, 39, b. Salisbury, Wiltshire, Congregational Minister;   Mary Annie Horder, 39, b. Leeds, Yorkshire; Percy R. M. Horder, 10, b. Torquay, Devonshire; Lester (should be Leslie) M. Horder, 8, b. Wood Green, Middlesex; Constance M. Horder, 7, b. Wood Green, Middlesex; Gerald M. Horder, 3, b. Wood Green, Middlesex.   There is a servant living in the house.

1891 England Census - 3 St. John Villas, Pellatt Grove, Wood Green (Tottenham), Middlesex, England: William G. Horder, 49, Congregational Minister, b. Salisbury, Wiltshire; Mary A. Horder, 48, b. Leeds, Yorkshire; Mary M. Horder, 21, b. Torquay, Devon; Percy M. Horder, 20, architect, b. Torquay, Devon; Leslie M. Horder, 18, b. Wood Green, Middlesex. There are two servants living in the household. Note: Pellatt Grove is 2 blocks north of the Wood Green Underground Station Note: The two youngest children, Gerald and Arnold, are living with their Aunt, Sarah (Morley) Fletcher, and her husband, Alfred E. Fletcher in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire.

1901 England Census - The Manse, Ealing Green, Ealing, Middlesex, England: William Garrett Horder, 59, Congregational Minister, b. Salisbury, Wiltshire; Mary Annie Horder, 59, b. Leeds, Yorkshire; Constance Morley Horder, 25, b. Wood Green, Middlesex; Gerald Morley Horder, 23, surveyor, b. Wood Green, Middlesex; Arnold Morley Horder, 19, horticultural student, b. Wood Green, Middlesex; Isabella Morley (niece), 25, missionary, b. Bridgewater, Somerset; Lucy Anna Morley (sister), 52, b. Leeds, Yorkshire. There are also two servants in the household.

1911 England Census - The Manse, Ealing Green, Ealing, London, England: William Garrett Horder, 69, minister, b. Salisbury, Wiltshire; Mary Annie Horder, 69, married 42 years, 6 of 8 children living, b. Leeds, Yorkshire; Constance Morley Horder, 37, single, b. London; Lucy Anna Morley, 62 (sister), b. Leeds, Yorkshire. Two servants are also living in the household.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: “England & Wales BMD Civil Registration Index 1837-2007”: Horder William born December q. 1841 Salisbury district, Wiltshire, England (Vol. 8 Page 395)
2. ↑ Marriage: “England & Wales BMD Civil Registration Index 1837-2007”: HORDER William Garrett married MORLEY Mary Annie June q. 1868 Newton Abbot district, Devon England (Vol. 5b Page 298)
3. ↑ The Salisbury Times (Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom), 13 June 1868, page 8.
4. ↑ The Middlesex County Times (London, England), 27 December 1922, page 3.
5. ↑ Death: “England & Wales BMD Civil Registration Index 1837-2007”: HORDER William G age 81 died December q. 1922 Brentford district, Ealing, Middlesex, England (Vol. 3a Page 173)
6. ↑ The Cornellian, 1903, page 58. Cornell University Yearbook.

See also:

• Birth: “England & Wales BMD Civil Registration Index 1837-2007”: Horder William born December q. 1841 Salisbury district, Wiltshire, England (Vol. 8 Page 395)

• Marriage: “England & Wales BMD Civil Registration Index 1837-2007”: HORDER William Garrett married MORLEY Mary Annie June q. 1868 Newton Abbot district, Devon England (Vol. 5b Page 298)

• Death: “England & Wales BMD Civil Registration Index 1837-2007”: HORDER William G age 81 died December q. 1922 Brentford district, Ealing, Middlesex, England (Vol. 3a Page 173)

• Probate of Will: Probate Search UK – Find a Will HORDER William Garrett of 3 Victoria-road Ealing Middlesex died 20 December 1922 Probate London 25 May to Percy Morley Horder architect and Gerald Morley Horder surveryor. Effects £7509 0s. 7d.

• "William Garrett Horder." The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press. .<http://www.hymnology.co.uk/w/william-garrett-horder>.

• Obituary Notice in the Year Book of the Congregational Union of England & Wales for 1924, page 98.