| 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… |
| 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;… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Keble, John |
b Fairford, Glos 1792, d Bournemouth, Hants 1866. Taught at home by his old-style ‘high-church’ father, he then proceeded immediately to Corpus Christi Coll Oxford; in 1811 he gained a rare double… |
| 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… |
| 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 NT—‘in 8 months and 12… |
| 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… |
| Neale, John Mason |
b at Lamb’s 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… |
| 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 mother’s church) as a child he became aware of… |
| Pope, Richard (Dick) Hudson |
b Putney, SW London 1879, d 1967. St Mark’s Sch, Chelsea. Raised in a strict, loving and godly family, he showed an early talent for writing (from pious hymns to gruesome ditties) and music (playing… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Medley, Samuel |
b Cheshunt, Herts 1738, d Liverpool 1799. Educated at the school run at Enfield by his maternal grandfather Wm Tonge, where he showed early promise and a keen memory. But at 14 he was apprenticed to a… |
| 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… |
| Bunyan, John |
b Elstow, Bedfordshire 1628, d London 1688. Born to his father’s second wife, he learned from him the craft of a brazier or ‘tinker’ and only briefly attended the local grammar school. As a… |
| 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… |
| Baring-Gould, Sabine |
b Exeter, Devon 1834, d Lew Trenchard, nr Tavistock, Devon 1924. Clare Coll Cambridge (BA, MA 1856); he taught briefly at the choir school of St Barnabas Pimlico, London, and then as Headmaster of… |
| Kent, John |
b Tiverton, Devon 1766, d 1843. Born of ‘poor, but pious and industrious parents’ who valued the ministry of Samuel Lavington, who baptized John, he worked as a shipwright in the royal dockyard,… |
| 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… |
| Rutherford, Samuel |
b Nisbet, nr Jedburgh, SE Scotland (Border), c1600, d Scotland 1661. Edinburgh Univ 1617–1621; he was indebted to the Presbyterian minister at Crailing who was deposed in 1617 for attacking royal… |
| Mason, John |
b ?Irchester, nr Rushden, Northants, c1646, d Water Stratford, Bucks 1694. Strixton Sch, Northants; Clare Hall, Cambridge. Following ordination he became curate of Isham, nr Kettering, Northants; in… |
| Lady Huntingdon's Hymn Book (1774) |
The collection of hymns published under the auspices of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (née Shirley, 1707–91), the titled patron of much evangelical advance in the 18th-c times of revival.… |
| Collyer, William Bengo |
(originally ‘Bengow’), b Deptford, Kent (SE London) 1782, d Chislehurst, Kent 1854. Educated at Homerton Coll. At the age of 18 he began preaching at the Congregational Chapel on the corner of… |
| 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… |
| Stone, Samuel John |
b Whitmore, Staffs 1839, d at The Charterhouse, Finsbury, N London 1900. Charterhouse Sch and Pembroke Coll, Oxford (BA, MA). He was ordained in 1862, to be curate at Windsor, then in 1870 joined his… |
