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Born: Blackheath, London, 14 May 1932; died, Switzerland, 31 January 2015
Hymn writer, member and a founding director of the Jubilate group from the 1960s to 2001, and chair of Jubilate Hymns Ltd, 1999 to 2001-Michael Saward began his hymn career in the early 1960s working on Touth Praise 1 and 2 (1966, 1969), and with Norman Warren, music editor, on Psalm Praise (1973). Michael Baughen, Bishop of Chester, edited the series. To fit with the outpouring of new translations of the Bible and of liturgies set in modern language, their group of evangelical clergy and musicians collaborated to write hymn texts and psalm paraphrases and to compose hymn tunes and psalm settings. "O Holy Spirit, giver of life" was among Saward's earliest hymn texts ( 1962). One of this author's own favorites was his "Lord of the cross of shame" written in April 1963 for a Youth Fellowship event. He wrote "Baptised in water" to fill a perceived gap in contemporary baptismal hymns....