Draper was ed­u­cat­ed at Ke­ble Coll­ege, Ox­ford (BA in honors, MA 1880). He was or­dained in 1880, and was Cur­ate of St. Ma­ry’s, Shrews­bu­ry; Vi­car of Al­fre­ton, Der­by­shire; Vic­ar of the Ab­bey Church, Shrews­bu­ry; Rec­tor of Adel, York­shire (1899-1919); Mas­ter of the Tem­ple, Lon­don (1919-30); and Vi­car of Ax­bridge, Som­er­set. His works in­clude:

• The Vic­tor­ia Book of Hymns, 1897
• Hymns for Ho­ly Week (Lon­don: H. Frowde, 1898)
• A Me­mor­i­al Ser­vice for Them That Are Fall­en Asleep in Christ (Lon­don: H. Frowde, 1898)
• The Way of the Cross (Ox­ford, Eng­land: A. R. Mow­bray & Com­pa­ny)

Draper al­so con­trib­ut­ed hymns to the Guard­i­an, Church Month­ly, and other mag­a­zines. He wrote about 60 hymns al­to­ge­ther.

• Hustad, pp. 233-34
• Julian, pp. 1629-30
• Reynolds, pp. 282-83

1. Come Forth, Ye Sick and Poor
2. From Homes of Qui­et Peace
3. How Blest the Land Where God Is Known
4. How Fair Was the Land of God’s Peo­ple of Old
5. Hush, All Ye Sounds of War
6. In Our Day of Thanks­giv­ing
7. Lord, Through This Ho­ly Week of Our Salva­tion
8. Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone
9. Rejoice, Ye An­gels in the Sky
10. Righteous Fa­ther, We Have Wronged Thee
11. We Love God’s Acre Round the Church
12. What Can I Do for Eng­land?
13. Ye Sons of God, Arise

1. All Crea­tures of Our God and King