Thomas Helmore was a choirmaster, writer about singing and author and editor of hymns and carols.
Helmore's father was a congregationalist minister. During the boy's childhood the family moved from Kidderminster to Stratford-upon-Avon, where Helmore later trained his father's choir and taught in a school which his father had founded. In 1837, he began his studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1840. He was ordained in the Church of England in the same year, and took up a curacy at S...
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