| White, Henry Kirke |
b Cheapside, Nottingham 1785, d Cambridge 1806. His extraordinary talent was recognised early by his first teacher Mrs Garrington, who taught him between the ages of 3 and 5. He was given the best… |
| Williams, William |
(known familiarly as ‘Billy’), b Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn, nr Llandovery, Carmarthen, S Wales 1717, d Pantycelyn nr Llandovery, Carmarthenshire 1791. Born into a farming household which was soon… |
| Moule, Handley Carr Glyn |
b Fordington nr Dorchester, Dorset 1841, d Cambridge 1920. Home-educated in a vicarage, the youngest of 8 sons (one dying in infancy, two going on to serve in China and write and edit hymns there), by… |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich |
b Breslau, Germany 1906, d Flossenburg, Germany 1945. Tutored initially at home by the Moravian Fräulein Horn who loved hymns; his mother taught him Scripture, and his father was a teaching… |
| 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… |
| Wesley, John |
b Epworth, Lincs 1703, d City Rd, Old St, Middx (C London) 1791. As a boy he was dramatically rescued from a fire at his father’s rectory at Epworth; after study at Charterhouse Sch, Surrey, and… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 King’s… |
| M'Cheyne, Robert Murray |
b Edinburgh 1813, d Dundee, Forfarshire 1843. Edinburgh High Sch; Univ of Edinburgh. An early enthusiast for the arts, especially poetry and music, and for sport, notably gymnastics, he retained all… |
| Steele, Anne |
b Broughton, Hants 1717, d Broughton 1778. Growing up in a Particular (Calvinist) Baptist family with ministers on both her father’s and her mother’s side, she became a member of the Broughton… |
| Montgomery, James |
b Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 1771, d Sheffield 1854. His father John was converted through the ministry of John Cennick qv. James, the eldest son, was educated first at the Moravian centre at Fulneck… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Hill, Rowland |
b Hawkstone Park, nr Market Drayton, Shrops 1744, d Southwark, Surrey (S London) 1833. Shrewsbury Sch, Eton Coll, and St John’s Coll Cambridge (BA, MA). Converted through his elder brother Richard… |
| Clarkson, Edith Margaret 1915 -2008 |
b Melville, Saskatchewan, W Canada 1915; d Shepherd Lodge, Toronto, Canada, 2008 Riverdale Collegiate Institute, Toronto Teachers’ Coll, and Univ of Toronto. A sufferer from arthritis and migraine… |
| Watts, Isaac |
b Southampton 1674, d Stoke Newington, Middx 1748. King Edward VI Grammar Sch, Southampton, and private tuition; he showed outstanding early promise as a linguist and writer of verse. He belonged to… |
| Augustine of Hippo |
b Tagaste, N Africa 354, d Hippo (now Bône, Algeria), N Africa 430. Born to a pagan father and a Christian mother (Monica, to whose prayers he owed an incalculable debt), he received a Christian… |
| Fawcett, John (A) |
b Lidget Green nr Bradford, Yorks Jan 1739/40, d Hebden Bridge, Halifax, Yorks 1817. His father died when John was 4, leaving his mother to bring up a large and very poor family. He learned to read… |
| Neumark, Georg Christian |
b Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany 1621, d Weimar, Germany 1681. Educated at the Gymnasia of Schleusingen and Gotha. In autumn 1641, aged 20, he was travelling with a group of merchants to Leipzig (for… |
| 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 father’s side from the Scots Covenanters and on her mother’s from… |
| Barnes, Jonathan M |
b Sidmouth, Devon 1951. Sir Walter St John’s Grammar Sch, Battersea, SW London; Christ Church (teacher training) College, Canterbury, Kent. In his youth he belonged to St Barnabas Ch, Clapham… |
| Macdonald, Donald M |
b Borrobol, Kinbrace, Strath of Kildonan, Sutherland, Scotland, 1944. Golspie Senr Secondary Sch; Edinburgh Univ (MB, ChB 1967, FRCS 1972). After beginning as a trainee surgeon in Edinburgh 1967–73,… |
| Bickersteth, Edward Henry |
b Islington, N London (Middx) 1825, d Paddington, W London (Middx) 1906. Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA 1847, MA). One of a long and continuing dynasty of mainly Anglican (and clerical) Bickersteths, his… |
| 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… |
| 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;… |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph |
b Down Ampney, Glos 1872, d St Marylebone, London 1958. A vicar’s son who moved before he was 3 when his father died, and always considered himself a Londoner. Rottingdean (Prep) Sch and… |
