Timothy Dudley-Smith is the writer of over three hundred distinguished hymn texts, including the celebrated ‘Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided’, and ‘Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord’.
In 2003, he was appointed an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and in the New Year Honours of that year was awarded an OBE ‘for services to hymnody’. In 2011, he was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music at the RSCM Celebration Day Service at Peterborough Cathedral.
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