Oc­to­ber 31, 1917, Bright­on, Eng­land.

Oc­to­ber 8, 1982, Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see.

Routley at­tend­ed Mag­da­len Col­lege, Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty (BA 1936) and stu­died at Mans­field Col­lege (where he was tu­tor and lec­tur­er in church his­to­ry in 1948). Af­ter or­din­a­tion, he be­came pas­tor of the Dart­ford Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, and re­ceived his Ba­che­lor of Di­vin­i­ty the next year, and his doc­tor­ate from Ox­ford in 1952. In 1970, he was elect­ed pre­si­dent of the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church of Eng­land and Wales. Rout­ley moved to Prince­ton, New Jer­sey, in 1975 be­come a vi­sit­ing pro­fess­or and di­rect­or of mu­sic at Prince­ton The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­i­na­ry, and Pro­fess­or of Church Mu­sic at West­min­ster Choir Coll­ege. Rout­ley’s works in­clude:

• The Church and Mu­sic, 1950
• The Gift of Con­ver­sion (Muhl­en­berg Press, 1955)
• The Wis­dom of the Fa­thers (West­min­ster Press, 1957)
• The Eng­lish Car­ol, 1958
• Church Mu­sic and The­ol­o­gy, 1959
• Music, Sac­red and Pro­fane (In­de­pen­dent Press, 1960)
• Hymns Today and To­mor­row (Ab­ing­don Press, 1964)
• Twentieth Cen­tu­ry Church Mu­sic, 1964
• The Di­vine For­mu­la
• The Mu­sical Wes­leys (Jenk­ins, 1968)
• Hymns and the Faith (W. B. Eerd­mans Pub. Co, 1968)
• Words, Mu­sic, and the Church (Her­bert Jen­kins Ltd, 1968)
• Rejoice in the Lord, A Hymn Com­pan­ion to the Script­ures
• Exploring the Psalms (West­min­ster Press, 1975)
• Short His­to­ry of Eng­lish Church Mu­sic (J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1977)
• Church Mu­sic and the Christ­ian Faith, 1978
• Music Lead­er­ship in the Church
• A Pan­o­ra­ma of Christ­ian Hymn­o­dy (Hymn So­ci­e­ty of the Unit­ed States & Ca­na­da, 1979)
• Music of Christ­ian Hymns (Hymn So­ci­e­ty of the Unit­ed States & Ca­na­da,, 1981)
• Christian Hymns Ob­served (Tri­an­gle Pro­duct­ions, 1982)

• Brink & Pol­man, pp. 158-9
• Erickson, pp. 380-1
• Young, pp. 821-2

1. All Who Love and Serve Your Ci­ty
2. Go Forth for God
3. New Songs of Cel­e­bra­tion Ren­der

1. Sharpethorne
2. Varndean
3. Woodbury