honor. In 1967, Routley became the minister at St. James's Congregational Church in Newcastle, continuing his prolific writing and speaking output, and was elected President of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1970. That same year, Routley was made a Fellow of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. The Princeton Theological Seminary brought Routley to the US in 1975 as a lecturer and Director of Chapel. In September of that year, Routley became a Professor of Church Music and Director of Chapel at Westminster Choir College. In September 1982, Routley completed his last editorial project, the hymnal Rejoice in the Lord commissioned by the Reformed Church in America. After giving an introductory lecture on the hymnal, he flew to Nashville on 7 October to address a church music conference. He died in his sleep that same night. Routley was posthumously named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, in 1985 Personal In 1944, he married Margaret Scott in the Chapel at Mansfield College. They had three children. Works Routley wrote compositions for piano, violin, and organ; over 120 hymn tunes and 40 texts. For comprehensive lists of Routley's works see Duty and Delight: Routley Remembered. Robin Leaver and James Litton, eds. Carlton Young, Executive Editor. Hope Publishing/Canterbury Press. 1985. Our Lives Be Praise: The Hymn Tunes, Carols and Texts of Erik Routley. Carlton Y. Young, ed. Hope Publishing: Carol Stream IL 1990. References Obituary, The Times Wednesday, 20 October 1982, p. 16. David Scott. "Erik Routley", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy. External links Erik Routley (1917–1982) The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk The Hymn Society of the United States and Canada www.thehymnsociety.org Hymnary.org https://hymnary.org/search?qu=Erik+Routley The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/ References 1917 births 1982 deaths Alumni of Mansfield College, Oxford People educated at Lancing College Hymnologists 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century English composers 20th-century musicologists