The popular and prolific hymnwriter Revd Timothy Dudley-Smith OBE has died aged 97. Dudley-Smith composed over 400 hymns, many of which are included in some 250 hymnals throughout the English-speaking world.
His better-known compositions include ‘Lord for the years’, (written on a train journey from Nottingham to London in 1967 for the centenary of the Scripture Union), and ‘Tell out my soul’, predicted by poet laureate John Betjeman to be ‘one of the few modern hymns that will truly last’.
Timothy Dudley-Smith was born in Manchester in 1926. Influenced by his father, who was a teacher, Dudley-Smith developed a love of poetry from his youth.
