Dr. F. Pratt Green, b. 1903 and University of Durham (collectors)

The Pratt Green Collection (hymns and hymnology) was founded in 1987, with the gift, via the Pratt Green Trustees, of the collection of hymn books and related works formed by the distinguished hymn writer, Fred Pratt Green. The purpose of the collection is to provide a corpus of material for the study of hymns and hymnology of all periods, but with particular emphasis on modern hymns.

Born at Roby, near Liverpool, in 1903, Fred Pratt Green was ordained into the Methodist ministry in 1928, and worked as a school chaplain and circuit minister until his retirement in the late 1960s. During these years he wrote several plays and numerous poems, but only a few hymns. His poems appeared in many periodicals, and three collections were published, This unlikely earth (1952), The skating parson (1963), and The old couple (in 1976, after his retirement).

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