| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Alford, Henry |
b Bloomsbury, Middx (C London) 1810, d Canterbury, Kent 1871. The product of a long-standing clerical family, at the age of 6 he produced his own âTravels of St Paulâ, at 11 a collection of hymns,… |
| Addison, Joseph |
b Milston, nr Amesbury, Wilts 1672, d Kensington, Middx (W London) 1719. Charterhouse Sch; Queenâs and Magdalen Coll Oxford (BA/MA, later Fellow of Magdalen). He was a classical scholar whose Lat… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Clarkson, Edith Margaret 1915 -2008 |
b Melville, Saskatchewan, W Canada 1915; d Shepherd Lodge, Toronto, Canada, 2008 Riverdale Collegiate Institute, Toronto Teachersâ Coll, and Univ of Toronto. A sufferer from arthritis and migraine… |
| 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 1967â73,… |
| Turl, Margaret Emma |
b Shrewsbury 1946. Stamford High Sch (Lincs) and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MA English and Cert Ed). Born into a literary household, she loved poetry from childhood, and was converted aged 13 at a… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Gaunt, Alan |
b Manchester 1935. Silcoates Sch, Lancashire Independent Coll, and Manchester Univ. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry 1958, later the United Reformed Church; his 42 years of pastoral… |
| Troeger, Thomas H |
b Suffern, New York. Graduate of Yale Univ; Colgate Rochester Divinity Sch where he also taught before becoming Peck Prof of Preaching and Communication, the Iliff Sch of Theology, Denver, Colorado.… |
| 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)… |
| Leckebusch, Martin Ernest |
b Leicester 1962. King Edward VII Coll, Coalville, Leics; Oriel Coll Oxford; BA/MA (Maths) 1983; Brunel Univ Middx, MSc (Numerical Analysis) 1984. He worked for 16 yrs as a Computer Systems… |
| 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… |
| Petersson (Pjétursson), HallgrÏmur (Hallgrim) |
b Gröf, nr HĂłlar, Iceland 1614, d Sourby, Iceland 1674. The son of a farmer and cathedral bellringer, expelled from the attached school for his satirical verse and sharp tongue. He was sent (or ran… |
| 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… |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques |
b Geneva, Switzerland 1712, d Ermeneville, nr Paris, France 1778. He ran away from his motherless and somewhat dysfunctional French Protestant family when was 16, cutting short his apprenticeship to… |
| 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… |
| Ambrose of Milan |
b at or nr Treves (Trier, Germany) c339â340, d Milan, Italy 397. Son of the Praetorian Prefect of Gallia Narbonensis, Gaul, he trained and practised as a lawyer before being made Governor of… |
| Preston, David George |
b London 1939. d 2020. Archbishop Tenisonâs Grammar School, Kennington, London; Keble College Oxford (MA Mod Langs.) He worked as a French Teacher, including 11 years at Ahmadu Bello Univ, Nigeria,… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Havergal, William Henry |
b Chipping Wycombe, Bucks 1793, d Leamington, Warwicks 1870. Merchant Taylorâs Sch, London; St Edmund Hall Oxford (BA, MA); ordained (CofE) 1816. He served curacies in Bristol and Coaley (Glos);… |
| 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… |
