| Tredinnick, Noël Harwood |
b Camberwell, London 1949. St Olaveâs Grammar Sch (boy chorister at Southwark Cathedral), GSM (GGSM 1970), London Univ Inst of Education (PGCE 1971). Music Director, Langley Park Sch 1971â75;… |
| Robinson, Robert |
b Swaffham, Norfolk 1735, d Showell Green, nr Birmingham, Warwicks 1790. His first job was as a London barberâs apprentice, during which time he preferred his books to his business. When he was 17… |
| 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… |
| Saward, Michael John |
b Blackheath, SE London 1932; d Switzerland 2015. Eltham Coll; Bristol Univ and Tyndale Hall Bristol (BA); ordained 1956. He ministered in Croydon, Edgware and Liverpool before becoming the C of Eâs… |
| 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… |
| Dix, William Chatterton |
b Bristol 1837, d Cheddar, Axbridge, Som 1898. He was named after the young poetic genius Thos Chatterton, whose tragically brief life had been chronicled by WCDâs father; Wm J Dix was a high church… |
| David Lyon |
David is a songwriter, musician and producer from the West Coast of Scotland. He has released six solo albums and played on many other projects over three decades.
Having eventually overcome a… |
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Joannes Chrysostomos Wolfgangus Theophilus) |
b Salzburg, Austria 1756, d Vienna, Austria 1791. A budding mathematician and confident composer at the age of 5, he was accomplished on the violin and harpsichord 6. He spent the next 4 years touring… |
| Monsell, John Samuel Bewley |
b St Columbâs, Co Derry, Ireland 1811, d Guildford, Surrey 1875. Trinity Coll Dublin (BA 1832, LLD 1836); ordained (Ch of Ireland) 1834, becoming chaplain to Bp Mant (No.193), then Chancellor of the… |
| Seddon, James (Jim) Edward |
b Lancs 1915; d London 1983. Tyndale Hall, Bristol 1936; Univ of Durham (LTh 1939). Ordained in 1939, he was curate of parishes in Everton, Toxteth and Southport, Lancs 1939â45. From 1945 to 1955 he… |
| Sankey, Ira David |
b Edinburgh, W Penns, USA 1840, d Brooklyn, New York, USA 1908. Growing up near the Mahoning River, he joined in the familyâs farm work at Western Reserve Harbour from the age of 6. He was converted… |
| Francis of Assisi (Bernardone, Giovanni Franceso) |
b Assisi, central Italy, 1182; d Assisi 1226. Brought up in comparative luxury, he pursued pleasure as a youth but at 20 was imprisoned during a local war. Serious illness made him rethink his… |
| Byrom, John |
b Kersall (Kersal), nr Manchester, Feb 1691/92, d Manchester 1763. Merchant Taylorâs Sch, N London, and Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA/MA), of which he became a Fellow in 1714. In 1719 he studied… |
| Twells, Henry |
b Ashte(a)d, nr Birmingham, Warwicks 1823, d Bournemouth, Dorset 1900. School in Birmingham; St Peterâs Coll Cambridge (BA 1848). Ordained in 1849, he was Curate of Gt Berkhamsted 1849â51 and then… |
| Olivers, Thomas |
b Tregynon, nr Newtown, Powys (Montgomeryshire), N Wales 1725, d London 1799. Orphaned at the age of 4, he grew up as a âwild and reckless youthâ with what might today be called anti-social or… |
| Howells, Herbert Norman |
b Lydney, Glos 1892, d Putney, London 1983. Lydney Grammar Sch and Gloucester Cathedral Sch; articled to the Gloucester organist Sir Herbert Brewer 1905â11, he won an RCM scholarship in 1912 (the… |
| Kelly, Thomas |
b Stradbally (Kellyville), Queenâs County, Ireland 1769, d Dublin 1855. Trinity Coll Dublin. Although trained in law and intending to follow his father in a legal career, he was converted from… |
| Carey, Henry [Savile] |
b ?Rothwell, Yorks ?1687 (m1708), d Clerkenwell St James, London (Middx) 1743. A schoolteacher and singer, he was reputedly the son of the Marquis of Halifax (see Grove; though this has also been… |
| Procter, Adelaide Ann |
b Bedford Sq, Bloomsbury, central London 1825, d St Marylebone, London 1864. She grew up in a literary household and circle of friends; her first poems were published (under the name âMary… |
| Kaan, Frederik Herman (Fred) |
b Haarlem, Netherlands 1929.d Cumbria 2009. After a childhood under Nazi occupation when his parents sheltered Jewish people at great personal risk, he came to England to study in 1952. He ministered… |
| Herrington, C Paul |
b Bradford, W Yorks 1948. Schools in Bradford and Isle of Wight; RAM 1965 (piano, organ and violin; LRAM, ALCM); Bretton Hall Coll of Education(Cert Ed). He was a secondary schoolteacher in Doncaster,… |
| Mawson, Linda |
Linda was born in Woking, Surrey 1947. She studied at the Royal College of Music and gained a  BMus, GRSM, ARCM (Piano) Having worked in Music Education as both Piano Teacher and Secondary Music… |
| Churchill, Wendy |
b Broxton, Cheshire 1957. Moving house several times as her father was a Methodist minister, she began to write songs at the age of 10, and attended Roundhay High Sch W Yorks; Plympton Grammar Sch,… |
| Hood, Edwin Paxton |
b Half Moon St, Piccadilly (or ?Hanover Square), C London 1820, d Paris 1885. Son of one of Nelsonâs seamen and a domestic servant, he was orphaned at the age of 6 and had no formal schooling. But… |
| Mainzer, Joseph |
b TrĂšves (Trier), France 1801, d Salford, Gtr Manchester (Lancs) 1851. He attended the MaĂźtrise (choir school) of Trier Cathedral, but went on to study mining engineering, including work in the… |
| 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… |
| Giardini (Degiardino), Felice De |
b Turin, Italy 1716, d Moscow 1796. At school in Milan; he was a Cathedral chorister and youthful violinist, studying singing and composing for the harpsichord. On returning to Turin he had further… |
| Marshman, Joshua |
b Westbury Leigh, nr Bath, Som 1768, d Serampore, India 1837. Largely self-educated owing to his familyâs poverty, he worked first for his father in the weaving trade. He taught for a time at a… |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian |
b Eisenach, Thuringia, central Germany 1685, d Leipzig, Germany 1750. Beginning as a choirboy, cared for by musical elder brother and with initial training at Ohrdurf, LĂŒneburg and LĂŒbeck (under… |
| Pal, Krishna |
b 1764, d 1822. A carpenter and Hindu guru, his name gradually became known worldwide when he became the first Christian convert from Hinduism after 7 years of missionary work by Wm Carey, Joshua… |
