Edward Caswall

Edward Caswall

Edward Caswall was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer who converted to Roman Catholicism.

He was born at Yateley (35 m. w.s.w. of London), Hampshire, July 15, 1814 son of Rev. R. C. Caswall, sometime Vicar of Yately, Hampshire. He died at the Oratory, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, January 2, 1878 and was buried at Redwall, near Bromsgrove. [CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03417a.htm|title=Edward Caswall]

Caswell studied at Brasenose College, Oxford (B.A., 1836; M.A., 1838). He graduated in 1836 with honors.He was curate of Stratford-sub-Castle, near Salisbury, 1840–47. In 1850, his wife having died the previous year, he joined the Oratory of St. Philip Neri under Newman, to whose influence his conversion to Roman Catholicism was due.

He wrote original poems that have mainly survived only in Catholic hymnals due to the doctrinal slant. Caswell is best known for his translations from the Roman breviary and other Latin sources, which are marked by faithfulness to the original and purity of rhythm. They were published in "Lyra Catholica, containing all the breviary and missal hymns" (London, 1849); "The Masque of Mary" (1858); and "A May Pageant" (1865). "Hymns and Prose" (1873)are the three books combined with many of the hymns rewritten or revised.

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title =A Dictionary of Hymnology
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date =June, 1907
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title =The Gospel in Hymns
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date =1950
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