Hugh McElrath: b. 1921, d. 2008

Hugh T. McElrath (1921–2008), "Dr. Mac", was a prominent scholar and church musician who taught hymnology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1948 to 1992. He co-authored, with Harry Eskew the widely-used textbook Sing with Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Hymnology.

His interest and participation in shapenote singing flew below the radar, if you go by tributes on the occasion of his death—never mentioned.

Roles undertaken (and minuted)

• 1996: Harrods Creek: prayer

Tunes led