Background
Henry Twells was born in Ashted, Birmingham on 13 March 1823. On 25 May 1875, he married Ellen Jane Tompson, daughter of the Review Matthew Carrier Tompson, for fifty years Vicar of Alderminster, near Stratford-on-Avon.
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Henry Twells was born in Ashted, Birmingham on 13 March 1823. On 25 May 1875, he married Ellen Jane Tompson, daughter of the Review Matthew Carrier Tompson, for fifty years Vicar of Alderminster, near Stratford-on-Avon.
He went to school at King Edward"s School, Birmingham and then to Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, from where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1848 and Master of Arts
His best known hymn was "At Even, Ere the Sun Was Secretariat". He also wrote the well-known poem, "Time"s Paces" that depicts the apparent speeding up of time as we become older. A younger brother, Edward Twells, was the first Bishop of Bloemfontein.
In 1851.
He died in Bournemouth on 19 January 1900. 1849 - Ordained as deacon at Rochester Cathedral. 1849-1851 - Curate in Berkhamsted and then
1851-1854 - Curate at the parish church of Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.
1854-1856 - Master of Saint Andrew"s House School in Mells, Somerset.
1856-1870 - Headmaster of Godolphin School, Hammersmith, London. 1870-1871 - Rector of Baldock, Hertfordshire.
1871-1890 - Rector of Waltham on the Wolds, Lincolnshire. 1884 - Appointed as Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral.
1890 - "Semi-retired" in Bournemouth where he commissioned the building of Saint Augustin"s church dedicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo and he remained "priest-in-charge" there till his death.