| Cowper, William |
(pronounced âCooperâ), b Great Berkhamsted, Herts 1731, d East Dereham, Norfolk 1800. Permanently affected by the loss of his mother in childhood, at 6 he was sent to boarding sch at nearby… |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich |
b Breslau, Germany 1906, d Flossenburg, Germany 1945. Tutored initially at home by the Moravian FrĂ€ulein Horn who loved hymns; his mother taught him Scripture, and his father was a teaching… |
| Ryland, John |
b Warwick 1753, d Bristol 1825.A gifted child who was first taught by his father and at the age of 5 could read Ps 23 in Heb; before he was 9 he read and translated the Gk NTââin 8 months and 12… |
| Milton, John |
b at the Sign of the Spread Eagle in Bread St, Cheapside, London 1608, d St Giles-without-Cripplegate, C London 1674. The son of John senr, a scrivener (secretary/ copyist) and musician, his… |
| Green, Fred Pratt |
b Roby nr Liverpool 1903, d Norwich, Norfolk 2000. Huyton High Sch, Wallasey Grammar Sch, and Rydal Sch, Colwyn Bay. Attending Childwall Parish Ch (his motherâs church) as a child he became aware of… |
| Hill, Rowland |
b Hawkstone Park, nr Market Drayton, Shrops 1744, d Southwark, Surrey (S London) 1833. Shrewsbury Sch, Eton Coll, and St Johnâs Coll Cambridge (BA, MA). Converted through his elder brother Richard… |
| Plumptre, Edward Hayes |
b Bloomsbury, Middx (C London) 1821, d Wells, Som 1891. A scholar with a distinguished lineage traceable back to the 14th c, he was taught at home before becoming a prizewinning student of Kingâs… |
| Herbert, George |
b Montgomery Castle (Powys, Wales), 1593, d Bemerton nr Salisbury, Wilts 1632/3. Westminster Sch, London; Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA 1613, MA 1616), of which he became a teaching Fellow in 1614. In… |
| Havergal, Frances Ridley |
b Astley, Worcs 1836, d Caswell Bay, Oystermouth, nr Swansea, Glam 1879. Named after a distant ancestor, the Protestant martyr Bp Nicholas Ridley, she was a bubbly personality growing up as her… |
| Hart, Joseph |
b London 1712, d London 1768. He had an evangelical nonconformist upbringing and showed early promise in Heb, Gk, Lat and French. He loved to read and translate classical poetry and soon became a… |
| Shekleton, Mary |
b Dublin 1827, d Dublin 1883. She was taught first by her young widowed mother who as a new Christian had 4 small girls to bring up, aged between 6 years and 6 months (Mary). Mrs Shekleton was on a… |
| Doddridge, Philip |
b London 1702, d Lisbon, Portugal 1751. The youngest and barely surviving 20th child of a dissenting London oil merchant, he was one of only two to grow beyond infancy. He was educated at home by his… |
| Binney, Thomas |
b Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1798, d Upper Clapton, Hackney, Middx (NE London) 1874. Raised in a Presbyterian home, he was educated locally before serving a 7-year bookselling apprenticeship which required… |
| Clarkson, Edith Margaret 1915 -2008 |
b Melville, Saskatchewan, W Canada 1915; d Shepherd Lodge, Toronto, Canada, 2008 Riverdale Collegiate Institute, Toronto Teachersâ Coll, and Univ of Toronto. A sufferer from arthritis and migraine… |
| Bridges, Robert Seymour |
b Walmer, Kent 1844, d Boars Hill, nr Oxford 1930. After his country squire father died when Robert was 10, his mother remarried and the family moved to Rochdale, from where RSB was sent to Eton Coll;… |
| Neale, John Mason |
b at Lambâs Conduit St, Bloomsbury, Middx (C London) 1818, d East Grinstead, Sussex 1866. He was taught privately and at Sherborne Sch; Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA 1840), then Fellow and Tutor at… |
| Elliott, Charlotte |
b Clapham, Surrey (SW London) 1789, d Brighton, Sussex, 1871. The granddaughter of Henry Venn of Huddersfield, in her youth she enjoyed composing light and comic verses; after her conversion her… |
| Carmichael, Amy Beatrice (Wilson) |
b Millisle, Co Down 1867, d Dohnavur, India 1951. The eldest and possibly most adventurous of 7 children, she was descended on her fatherâs side from the Scots Covenanters and on her motherâs from… |
| Lyte, Henry Francis |
b Ednam nr Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1793, d Nice, France 1847. Portora Royal Sch (a charity school for orphans), Enniskillen, N Ireland, andTrinity Coll Dublin (3 English poetry prizes; BA… |
| Mant, Richard |
b Southampton 1776, d Ballymoney, Co Antrim, N Ireland 1848. Taught first by his father and showing an early love of Lat classics and English verse, he attended Winchester Coll in 1789, where with… |
| Baxter, Richard |
b Rowton, High Ercall, Shrops 1615; d Charterhouse Liberty, Middlesex (London) 1691. Donnington Free Sch, Wroxeter, and private tuition at Ludlow. After a brief time at court he studied theology at… |
| Dudley-Smith, Timothy |
b Manchester 1926. Tonbridge School, Kent, Pembroke Coll Camb, and Ridley Hall Camb; ordained (CofE) 1950. After ministry at Northumberland Heath (nr Erith, Kent) and Bermondsey (SE London) he worked… |
| Winkworth, Catherine |
b Ely Place, Saffron Hill liberty, Holborn, London 1827, d Monnetier, Savoy, France 1878. Her early life was spent in the Manchester area, where with her eldest sister Susanna she was educated; in… |
| Perry, Michael Arnold |
b Beckenham, Kent 1942, d Tonbridge, Kent 1996. Dulwich Coll, Oak Hill and Ridley Hall Theological Colls, London and Southampton Univs (BD, MTh). Ordained (CofE) 1965; after curacies at St Helenâs,… |
| Alstyne, Frances Jane Van (Fanny Crosby) |
b Southeast, Putnam County, NY, USA 1820, d 1915. Born into the extensive Crosby clan, the 17th-c founders of Harvard College, in a single-storey cottage in a rural community, Puritan in faith and… |
| Bunyan, John |
b Elstow, Bedfordshire 1628, d London 1688. Born to his fatherâs second wife, he learned from him the craft of a brazier or âtinkerâ and only briefly attended the local grammar school. As a… |
| Rizza (Lensky), Margaret |
b Stockton Brook, Stoke on Trent, Staffs 1929. After an unhappy boarding school life her education really began, starting at the RCM, London, at the age of 17 continuing at the National School of… |
| Kendrick, Graham Andrew |
b Blisworth, Northants 1950. Son of a Baptist minister who moved with the family to Laindon (Essex) and Putney. He took a step of faith at the age of 5, and began composing songs as a 15- year old,… |
| Bell, John Lamberton |
b Kilmarnock, Ayrshire 1949. Univ of Glasgow (degrees in Arts and Divinity after one false start and an interval working as a volunteer in London and Amsterdam). He was then ordained in the Ch of… |
| Routley, Erik Reginald |
b Brighton, Sussex 1917, d Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1982. Lancing Coll, Sussex; Magdalen Coll and Mansfield Coll Oxford (BA, BD); ordained (Congregational Ch) 1943. He served churches in… |
