| Keble, John |
b Fairford, Glos 1792, d Bournemouth, Hants 1866. Taught at home by his old-style âhigh-churchâ father, he then proceeded immediately to Corpus Christi Coll Oxford; in 1811 he gained a rare double… |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph |
b Down Ampney, Glos 1872, d St Marylebone, London 1958. A vicarâs son who moved before he was 3 when his father died, and always considered himself a Londoner. Rottingdean (Prep) Sch and… |
| Heber, Reginald |
HEBER, Reginald, b Malpas Rectory, Cheshire 1783, d Trichinopoly, India 1826. Whitchurch Grammar Sch, Shrops, and private tuition at Neasden, Middlesex; Brasenose Coll Oxford; Newdigate Prize (1803)… |
| Cennick, John |
(pronounced âSennickâ), b Reading, Berks 1718, d London 1755. Born of staunch Quaker stock, he nevertheless had an Anglican upbringing and trained as a land surveyor. As a young man he was… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Gerhardt, Paulus (Paul) |
b GrĂ€fenhainichen, SW of Wittenberg, Germany c1607, d LĂŒbben am Spree, Saxe-Merseburg, 1676. Born to Lutheran parents in an agricultural town, he had many siblings but seems to have been orphaned… |
| Rippon, John |
b Tiverton, Devon 1751, d Surrey (SE London) 1836. He trained for the ministry at the âmoderate Calvinistâ Baptist Coll in Bristol, and in 1773 became the youthful pastor of the Baptist… |
| Kent, John |
b Tiverton, Devon 1766, d 1843. Born of âpoor, but pious and industrious parentsâ who valued the ministry of Samuel Lavington, who baptized John, he worked as a shipwright in the royal dockyard,… |
| Rutherford, Samuel |
b Nisbet, nr Jedburgh, SE Scotland (Border), c1600, d Scotland 1661. Edinburgh Univ 1617â1621; he was indebted to the Presbyterian minister at Crailing who was deposed in 1617 for attacking royal… |
| Williams, William |
(known familiarly as âBillyâ), 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… |
| Augustine of Hippo |
b Tagaste, N Africa 354, d Hippo (now BĂŽne, 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… |
| Terry, Richard Runciman |
b Ellington, nr Ashington, Northumb 1865, d Kensington, W London, Easter Day 1938. Having moved to South Shields as a boy, he played the parish church organ for midweek events at the age of 11. This… |
| Wilson, John Whitridge |
b Bournville, Warwicks (W Midlands) 1905, d Guildford, Surrey 1992. Manchester Grammar Sch, Dulwich Coll, and Sidney Sussex Coll Cambridge (Physics and Maths; later MusB). At 23 he decided on a career… |
| Mason, Lowell |
b Medfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1792, d Orange, New Jersey, USA 1872. Taught as a child by the local schoolmaster, the bandmaster and a neighbouring violinist among others, he also attended a singing… |
| Samuel, Leith |
b Wallasey, Merseyside (Ches) 1915, d Frinton, Essex 1999. Wallasey Grammar Sch; Univ of Liverpool 1933â36, Queenâs Coll Birmingham 1936â37. He worked at St Markâs New Ferry from 1937â38… |
| Idle, Christopher Martin |
b Bromley, Kent 1938. Eltham Coll, St Peterâs Coll Oxford (BA, English), Clifton Theol Coll Bristol; ordained in 1965 to a Barrow-in-Furness curacy. He spent 30 years in CofE parish ministry, some… |
| Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig von |
b Dresden, Germany 1700, d Herrnhut, Saxony 1760. The AdelspĂ€dagogium (school) at Halle, 1710â16; Univ of Wittenberg (degree in Law) 1716â19. Born into a wealthy branch of the German nobility,… |
| Lee, David |
David Lee was brought up in south Manchester, sketching his first hymn tune while at primary school, and has been active in music in churches ever since. While an undergraduate at Durham in the late… |
| 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… |
| Thalben-Ball, George Thomas |
b Sydney, NSW, Australia 1896, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1987. His Cornish parents returned home from Sydney while he was still very young, and at the age of 14 he won a scholarship to the RCM where… |
| Conder, Josiah |
b Aldersgate, London 1789, d St Johnâs Wood, Hampstead, Middx (N London) 1855. After losing his right eye to a smallpox inoculation at the age of 5 or 6, at 13 he left his Hackney school to enter… |
| 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… |
| Pennefather, Willliam |
b Dublin, Ireland 1816, d Muswell Hill, Middx (N London) 1873. School at Dublin and Westbury-on-Trym nr Bristol, where in 1832, he says, âGod was pleased to teach me to love him and to prize his… |
| Barnes, Jonathan M |
b Sidmouth, Devon 1951. Sir Walter St Johnâs Grammar Sch, Battersea, SW London; Christ Church (teacher training) College, Canterbury, Kent. In his youth he belonged to St Barnabas Ch, Clapham… |
| Bewes, Richard Thomas |
b Nairobi, Kenya 1934, where he grew up. From a strong missionary family, he attended Marlborough Sch, Emmanuel Coll and Ridley Hall, Cambridge (MA) and was ordained in 1959. After a curacy at Christ… |
| Pope, Richard (Dick) Hudson |
b Putney, SW London 1879, d 1967. St Markâs 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… |
| Bonar, Horatius |
b Edinburgh 1808, d Edinburgh 1889. Edinburgh High Sch and Univ; licensed to preach (Ch of Scotland) and became asst. to the Minister at Leith, where his first hymns were written as a response to the… |
| Lady Huntingdon's Hymn Book (1774) |
The collection of hymns published under the auspices of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (nĂ©e Shirley, 1707â91), the titled patron of much evangelical advance in the 18th-c times of revival.… |
| Cherry, Edith Adeline Gilling |
b Plymouth, Devon 1872, d Plymouth 1897. Disabled by poliomyelitis from the age of 16 months until her death at the age of 25, she walked with a pair of light crutches which she called âmy… |
