Tom Turner, Jack Annard, Willie Hughes, Robert Blair
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Tom Turner, Jack Annand, Willie Hughes, Robt Blair
Thomas M. Turner comes from the North of Ireland; he was a school teacher
in County Galway, when he heard the truth and also went forth in 1900
for a time in Ireland, and was one of the first to go to Australia.
He wrote hymns 202, 236 and 265.
Regarding No. 236, at one Convention someone said —"The Approval of God"
—would be a good subject for a hymn and within a short time,
the next meeting or so, the hymn was produced and sung.
Tom was 81 years old when he died April, 1959.
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Jack Annand was born in 1891 and died 1957.
He worked on a farm as a lad, professed when 19 years old, went forth when he was 22,
first in N.S. Wales, then Victoria (Aust.) then came to Poland and Scandinavian
countries.
He wrote wrote hymn Nos. 164, 241, 283, 316, and 321 and No. 319 while at Deb. Convention.
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Robert Blair, who also laboured in New Zealand, was born at Otokia,
near Dunedin N.Z. in 1874 and died in 1942.
After selling some property left him in Scotland, he started out in the work in England,
remaining two years before going to N.Z.where he was for several years, was for a time
in Fiji, Samoa and Norfolk Isles, returning to Queensland where after 11 years he died.
He wrote Nos. 185, 195, 235, 274 and 277.
]When he was in Exeter he pulled out a scrap of paper from
his waistcoat pocket and asked another worker he met there if the
verses he had written on it would do for a hymn. It is now hymn No. 276.
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Willie Hughes laboured in N.Z.
He wrote "Went forth" in 1906 and wrote Nos. 62, 66, 114 and 116
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