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Rev. Canon Henry Twells (1823-1900) was an Anglican clergyman, hymn writer and poet. His best known hymn was "At Even, Ere the Sun Was Set".〔For the words of this hymn and some of his other hymns see this Net Hymnal website: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/t/w/twells_h.htm ''Retrieved 2012-02-15''〕 He also wrote the well-known poem, "Time's Paces" that depicts the apparent speeding up of time as we become older.〔Henry Twells, ''Hymns and Other Stray Verses'', London: Wells Gardner & Co., 1901, p. 34.〕 A younger brother, Edward Twells, was the first Bishop of Bloemfontein. == Life == Henry Twells was born in Ashted, Birmingham on 13 March 1823. He went to school at King Edward's School, Birmingham and then to Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, from where he graduated B.A. in 1848 and M.A. in 1851. On 25 May 1875, he married Ellen Jane Tompson, daughter of the Rev. Matthew Carrier Tompson, for fifty years Vicar of Alderminster, near Stratford-on-Avon.〔William Clavell Ingram, Dean of Peterborough. ''A Memoir of the Rev Henry Twells'', London: Wells Gardner & Co., (), Ch. III, p. 57. The spelling of 'Tompson' is confirmed by death certificates, marriage certificates available in www.ancestry.com.〕 He died in Bournemouth on 19 January 1900.〔Joy Heywood, ''The Twells Family'' - available on this Saint Mary Magdalene Church, Enfield website: http://www.saintmarymagdalene.org.uk/The_Twells_Family.html ''Retrieved 2012-02-15''〕
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