Born: Oc­to­ber 12, 1872, Mere Old Hall, Che­shire, Eng­land.

Died: De­cem­ber 19, 1958, Farn­ham, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

A graduate of New Coll­ege, Ox­ford (BA 1895, MA 1901), Crum was or­dained as a dea­con in 1897, and priest in 1900. He was as­sist­ant cur­ate at St. John the Evan­gel­ist, Dar­ling­ton (1897-1901); do­mes­tic chap­lain to Fran­cis Pa­get, Bi­shop of Ox­ford (1901-10); as­sist­ant cur­ate, Win­dsor (1907-10); Vi­car of Ment­more with Led­burn (1910-12); Rec­tor of Farn­ham (1913-28); and Ca­non of Can­ter­bu­ry (1928-43). His works in­clude:

• Road Mend­ing on the Sac­red Way, 1924
• What Mean Ye by These Stones? 1926
• The Orig­in­al Je­ru­sa­lem Gos­pel, 1927
• Notes on the Old Glass of the Ca­thed­ral of Christ Church, Can­ter­bury, 1930
• St. Mark’s Gos­pel, Two Stag­es of Its Mak­ing, 1936
• Life of Fran­cis Pa­get, 1912 (with Ste­phen Pa­get)

Sources

Hymns

1. Now the Green Blade Ris­es