Born: Ju­ly 2, 1853, Pem­broke Dock, South Wales.

Died: Jan­u­a­ry 15, 1928, Wand­sworth, Eng­land.

Tarrant was the on­ly son of a sol­dier who died in the Cri­me­an War. From 1867-74, he was ap­pren­ticed to a sil­ver­smith in Birm­ing­ham, and be­came an ex­pert me­tal work­er. There he was in­flu­enced by George Daw­son, a Un­i­tar­i­an pas­tor of the Church of Christ, and de­cid­ed to en­ter the Un­i­tar­ia­n min­is­try. He grad­u­at­ed from Lon­don Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1883 and served as pas­tor of the Wands­worth Un­i­tar­i­an Church (1883-1920). He al­so ed­it­ed The In­quir­er (1887-9 & 1918-27) and the Ess­ex Hall Hymn­al (1890). His works in­clude:

• The Story and the Sig­nif­i­cance of the Un­i­tar­ian Move­ment, 1910
• Songs of the Dev­out, 1912

Sources

Hymns

1. Come, Let Us Join with Faith­ful Souls
2. Draw Nigh to God
3. Fathers Built This City, The
4. Long Ago the Lilies Faded
5. Light Along the Ages, The
6. Marching with the He­roes
7. My Mas­ter Was a Work­er
8. Now Praise We Great and Fa­mous Men
9. With Hap­py Voic­es Ring­ing