Au­gust 10, 1858, Bays­wa­ter, Lon­don, Eng­land.

No­vem­ber 17, 1945, Jer­sey, Channel Is­lands.

Riley grad­u­at­ed from Eton and from Pem­broke Coll­ege, Ox­ford (BA 1881, MA 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 spent 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 (Lon­don: A. R. Mow­bray & Co., Ltd., 1915)

• Julian, pp. 1608, 1692
• McCutchan, p. 28
• Stulken, p. 263

1. Come, Let Us Join the Church Above
2. O Food to Pil­grims Giv­en
3. Saints of God! Lo, Je­su’s Peo­ple
4. Ye Watch­ers and Ye Ho­ly Ones

1. All Hail, Ye Lit­tle Mar­tyr Flow­ers
2. Another Year Com­plet­ed
3. Christ, the Fair Glo­ry of the Ho­ly An­gels
4. Dost Thou Tru­ly Seek Re­nown
5. Hail, O Star That Poin­test
6. O Food to Men Way­far­ing
7. Praises of That Saint We Sing, The
8. What Sweet of Life En­dur­eth?