Background
He was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire on 19 December 1855, the fifth son of Henry and Lucy Mary Draper.
He was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire on 19 December 1855, the fifth son of Henry and Lucy Mary Draper.
He attended Cheltenham College, and went up to Keble College, Oxford as an exhibitioner.
He was ordained in 1880. He was then Curate of Street Mary"s, Shrewsbury, and became successively Vicar of Alfreton in 1883 and Vicar of the Abbey Church, Shrewsbury in 1889. In 1899, he became Rector of Adel Church, Leeds, a position he retained for twenty-one years.
During the First World War, he also acted as deputy for the Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, who was absent on war service.
In 1919, he became Master of the Temple in London. In 1930 – contending that he had spent too long in one place – he left the Temple to become Vicar of Weare, retiring in 1933 shortly before his death.
Throughout his career, he contributed hymns to periodicals such as The Guardian and the Church Monthly. He also wrote a book of "Poems of the Love of England", a biography of Sir Nathan Bodington, a survey of the University extension movement in 1923, and "A Picture of Religion in England" in 1927.
He also developed a scheme for the establishment of Church lectures in the Universities.
He died in Clifton, Bristol on 9 August 1933. Come Forth, Ye Sick and Poor
From Homes of Quiet Peace
How Blest the Land Where God Is Known
How Fair Was the Land of God’s People of Old
Hush, All Ye Sounds of War
In Our Day of Thanksgiving
Lord, Through This Holy Week of Our Salvation
Manitoba Shall Not Live by Bread Alone
Rejoice, Ye Angels in the Sky
Righteous Father, We Have Wronged Thee
We Love God’s Acre Round the Church
What Can I Do for England? Ye Sons of God, Arise
The Victoria Book of Hymns, 1897
Hymns for Holy Week (London: H Frowde, 1898)
A Memorial Service for Them That Are Fallen Asleep in Christ (London: H Frowde, 1898)
The Way of the Cross (Oxford, England: A R Mowbray & Company).
In 1918, he was appointed as a member of the council for the revision of the communion service.