| Bernard of Clairvaux |
b ?Les Fontaines, nr Dijon, Burgundy, France 1090, d Clairvaux, France 1153. In 1113 he fulfilled an early ambition when with 30 noblemen, including several of his family, he entered the monastery of… |
| Addison, Joseph |
b Milston, nr Amesbury, Wilts 1672, d Kensington, Middx (W London) 1719. Charterhouse Sch; Queen’s and Magdalen Coll Oxford (BA/MA, later Fellow of Magdalen). He was a classical scholar whose Lat… |
| 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… |
| Bayly, Albert Frederick |
b Bexhill, E Sussex 1901, d Chichester, W Sussex 1984. He was received into membership of the local Congregational Church at 13; attended Hastings Grammar Sch but left early to train as a shipwright… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Beddome, Benjamin |
b Henley-in-Arden, Warwicks Jan 1716/17, d Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs 1795. He was originally apprenticed to a surgeon, but moved first to London and after attending the Baptist Ch in Prescot(t) St,… |
| Higham, William Vernon |
b Caernarfon, Gwynedd, N Wales 1926. His bilingual family moved to Bolton, Lancashire, in 1939, after years of widespread poverty, and he attended the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel with them. At… |
| Rippon, John |
b Tiverton, Devon 1751, d Surrey (SE London) 1836. He trained for the ministry at the ‘moderate Calvinist’ Baptist Coll in Bristol, and in 1773 became the youthful pastor of the Baptist… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Idle, Christopher Martin |
b Bromley, Kent 1938. Eltham Coll, St Peter’s 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… |
| Stevens, John |
b Aldwincle, nr Kettering, Northants 1776, d ?London 1847. After a Northants boyhood, he travelled to London when he was about 16, joining the Baptist Ch at Grafton St, Soho. The pastor there was… |
| Robinson, Robert |
b Swaffham, Norfolk 1735, d Showell Green, nr Birmingham, Warwicks 1790. His first job was as a London barber’s apprentice, during which time he preferred his books to his business. When he was 17… |
| 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… |
| Flint, Annie Johnson |
b Vineland, NJ, USA, 1866, d Clifton Springs, New York, USA 1932. Born to Eldon and Mrs Johnson who both died before Annie was 6. Adopted with her sister by the Flint family, she was writing verse by… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Townend, Stuart |
b Edinburgh 1963, the son of a pastor who became a CofE vicar from 1970–85. He learned the piano from the age of 7, playing in church from 9 or 10, and family moves took him to Morley nr Leeds,… |
| 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… |
| Allen, Cecil John |
b Clapton, Middx 1886, d Gloucs 1973. Joined the Engineer’s Dept of the Great Eastern Railway, whose history he later wrote, at 17; later became an inspector of materials for LNER (the London and… |
| Hoare, Brian Richard |
b Upminster, Essex 1935. Southwell Minster Grammar Sch and Westminster Coll, London 1956–59 (BD and Teacher’s Cert). First a teacher in Calverton, Notts 1959–62, he then worked as Travelling Sec… |
| 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… |
| 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, ‘God was pleased to teach me to love him and to prize his… |
| 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… |
| 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 Helen’s,… |
| 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 ‘my… |
| 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… |
