Arthur E. (Arthur Edwin) Gregory

Arthur Edwin Gregory was an English clergyman and author who died in 1912. The surviving catalog and public-domain records linked to his books identify him as Arthur E. Gregory, D.D., and show that he wrote on hymnody and religious life.

He is best known for The Hymn-Book of the Modern Church, published in the early 1900s, a study of hymns and hymn writers that was important enough to be issued as the Thirty-Fourth Fernley Lecture. Title pages and library records also describe him as Principal of the Children’s Home and Orphanage and note his editorial work on Books for Bible Students.

What stands out in Gregory’s work is its practical, readable approach. Rather than treating hymns as distant literary artifacts, he presented them as living parts of worship, helping readers understand both the writers behind them and the place of sacred song in modern church life.