Born: August 10, 1858, Bayswater, London, England.

Died: November 17, 1945, Jersey, Channel Islands.

Riley graduated from Eton and from Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1881, M.A. 1883). He helped edit The English Hymnal in 1906, and the revision of the Prayer Book in 1911. For much of his life he was a member of the House of Laity for the Province of Canterbury. At some point he acquired the Manoir de la Trinité in Jersey, and thus became Seigneur of the Island of Jersey. He was on the island when the Germans invaded in World War II, and lived the rest of his life there. Riley’s works include:

• Athos, or the Mountain of the Monks, 1887
• The Religious Question in Public Education, 1911
• Concerning Hymn Tunes and Sequences, 1915

Hymns:

1. O Food to Pilgrims Given
2. Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones

Translations:

1. All Hail, Ye Little Martyr Flowers
2. O Food to Men Wayfaring (O esca viatorum)
3. Praises of That Saint We Sing, The