Caswall, Edward, 1814-1878

LC control no.	n 82207823
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Caswall, Edward, 1814-1878 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Scriblerus Redivivus, 1814-1878 Caswell, Edward, 1814-1878 Quiz, 1814-1878
Birth date	1814-07-15
Death date	1878-01-02
Place of birth	Hampshire (England)
Place of death	Edgbaston (England)
Profession or occupation	Poets Translators Hymn writers
Found in	His Pluck examination papers. His The masque of Mary and other poems, 1858: t.p. (Edward Caswall) His A new art teaching how to be plucked, 1837: t.p. (Scriblerus Redivivus) InU 19th cent. drama files (hdg.: Caswall, Edward; usage: Edward Caswall) His Sketches of young ladies, 1838: t.p. (Quiz) When morning gilds the skies, 1947: title page (translated by Edward Caswall) Hymnary.org, September 29, 2016 (When morning gilds the skies; Translator: Edward Caswall (1854); Caswall, Edward, M.A., son of the Rev. R. C. Caswall, sometime Vicar of Yately, Hampshire, born at Yately, July 15, 1814, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in honors in 1836; taking Holy Orders in 1838, he became in 1840 Incumbent of Stratford-sub-Castle, near Salisbury, and resigned the same in 1847; in 1850 he was received into the Roman Catholic communion, and joined Dr. Newman at the Oratory, Edgbaston; his original poems and hymns were mostly written at the Oratory; he died at Edgbaston, January 2, 1878; Caswall's translations of Latin hymns from the Roman Breviary and other sources have a wider circulation in modern hymnals than those of any other translator, Dr. Neale alone excepted; his original compositions, although marked by considerable poetical ability, are not extensive in their use; his humorous work, "The Art of Pluck," was published in 1835; he also published several works in prose and poetry)
Associated language	eng