| 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… |
| Cennick, John |
(pronounced ‘Sennick’), 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Gerhardt, Paulus (Paul) |
b Gräfenhainichen, SW of Wittenberg, Germany c1607, d Lübben am Spree, Saxe-Merseburg, 1676. Born to Lutheran parents in an agricultural town, he had many siblings but seems to have been orphaned… |
| Samuel, Leith |
b Wallasey, Merseyside (Ches) 1915, d Frinton, Essex 1999. Wallasey Grammar Sch; Univ of Liverpool 1933–36, Queen’s Coll Birmingham 1936–37. He worked at St Mark’s New Ferry from 1937–38… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Conder, Josiah |
b Aldersgate, London 1789, d St John’s 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… |
| 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)… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Alexander, Cecil Frances |
b Eccles St, Dublin 1818; d Derry (Londonderry), N Ireland 1895. Born C F Humphreys, given 2 family names (the first given in some reference books as ‘Cecilia’, an understandable error) but always… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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.… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| Baker, Henry Williams |
b Vauxhall, S London, 1821; d Monkland, Herefs 1877. The eldest son of an Admiral and Baronet; Trinity Coll Camb (BA, MA), ordained (CofE) 1844. After a curacy at Great Horkesley nr Colchester, Essex,… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
