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Richard Hoyle

Birth: March 8, 1875, Cloughford, Lancashire, England
Death: December 14, 1939, Wimbledon, Surrey, England

Richard Birch Hoyle translated "Thine Be the Glory" from the original French into English. He was born in 1875, in Cloughfold England. He attended Regent's Park College in London from 1895 to 1900. He served as a Baptist minister in various churches in England for twenty-six years. Following that, he worked with the YMCA and for some time edited their publication The Red Triangle.

Hoyle translated about thirty French hymns into English. He also translated hymns from twelve other languages, all of which he read fluently. In 1934 he came to the United States, where he taught at Western Theological Seminary in Philadelphia for two years. When he returned to England, he became the pastor the Baptist church in Kinston-upon-Thames.