| 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… |
| 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… |
| Brooks, Phillips |
b Boston, Mass, USA 1835, d Boston, 1893. Boston Lat Sch; Harvard Univ; Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Ch in 1859, and began his ministry in the Ch of the… |
| Schultz, Johann Abraham Peter |
b LĂźneburg, N Germany 1747, d Schwedt, Germany 1800. (His birthplace also features in the lives of Ebeling and J S Bach). His father, a baker, hoped he would train for ordination, but so committed… |
| Hastings, Thomas |
b Washington, Connecticut, USA 1784, d New York city, 1872. At the age of 12 he moved with his parents to Clinton in NY state by ox-drawn sledge. A doctorâs son and a near-sighted albino, said to… |
| Houghton, Frank |
b Stafford, Staffs 1894, d Pembury, nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1972. He was writing both sacred and comic verse by the age of 13; at 17, with his brother Alfred (âTimâ), he had a dramatic escape… |
| Boyce, William |
b Garlickhythe, London 1711, d Kensington, W London (Middx) 1779. A chorister at St Paulâs Cathedral who went on to be organist at several London churches: Oxford Chapel, St Peterâs Vere St from… |
| Gellert, Christian FĂźrchtegott |
b Hainichen, Saxony 1715, d Leipzig 1769. Raised in a rural Lutheran parsonage, he studied theology at Meissen and (from 1734) at Leipzig, and after graduation assisted his father in pastoral work.… |
| Tang, Agnes |
b Malaysia 1945. She lived for some years in New Cross, SE London; worked in the Law Courts as a court reporter, and as a speech-to-text reporter for deaf people. She has studied at RSCM and is a… |
| Duckworth, Francis |
b Rimington, nr Clitheroe, Lancs 1862, d Colne, Lancs 1941. He grew up next door to the Wesleyan Chapel, the musical and social centre of the village where (in the absence of an organ) 4 of the… |
| Herklots, Rosamond Eleanor |
b Masuri, N India 1905, d Greenwich, SE London 1987. Born into a gifted clerical and missionary family, she attended Leeds Girlsâ High Sch and the Univ of Leeds (BA, French). After teacher training… |
| Maker, Frederick Charles |
b Clifton, Bristol 1844, d Bristol (1 Jan) 1927. A choirboy at Bristol Cathedral, he went on to play the organ at several Free Churches in the city including Methodist and Congregational chapels, most… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Tomblin, Norman |
Norman Tomblin was born in Bradford on 24th June 1907, the youngest of 5 brothers. His parents were members of the Plymouth Brethren in Bradford and this was where he first came to know the Lord… |
| Hatch, Edwin |
b Derby 1835, d Headington, Oxford 1889. King Edwardâs Sch, Birmingham and Pembroke Coll Oxford (BA 1857). Before going to Oxford, in 1853, he left nonconformity to join the CofE, and afterwards, in… |
| Bourgeois Louis |
(with many varied spellings), b Paris c1500â15, d ?Paris c1559â61. Went with Calvin to Geneva in 1541 as Cantor of two churches, where the first clear reference to him appears in the City Council… |
| Tchaikovsky (Chayovski etc), Peter Ilich (Pyotr Ilyich) |
b Kamsko-Votinsk, Vyatka, Russia 1840, d St Petersburg, Russia 1893. Showing an early sensitivity to words, and close to his mother as a boy, he could read French and German as well as his native… |
| 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… |
| Ewing, Alexander |
b Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1830, d Taunton, Som 1895. Marischal Coll, Aberdeen, where he began a legal training which he never completed. He travelled to Heidelberg to study music, became… |
| 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);… |
| 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)… |
| Tydeman, Ebenezer Alfred |
(given in Praise! and other books as âC A Tydemanâ); b Moulsham, Chelmsford, Essex 1842, d Godalming, Surrey, 1914. Coming from a family with roots in Suffolk and Essex, he was the son of Henry… |
| Swain, Joseph |
b Birmingham 1761, d Walworth, Surrey (SE London) 1796. Like other hymnwriters (see eg notes to Doddridge, Gerhardt, Hood, Lyte and Olivers) he was orphaned when young; he was originally apprenticed… |
| 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 âCeciliaâ, an understandable error) but always… |
| Bonner, Carey |
(writing under the name of Edwyn Vincent), b Southwark, S London (Surrey) 1859, d Muswell Hill, Hornsey, N London (Middx) 1938. Plaistow Sch, London; he then trained for the Baptist ministry at Rawdon… |
| Midlane, Albert |
b Carisbrooke nr Newport, Isle of Wight, Hants 1825, d Newport, 1909. Following a printing apprenticeship he joined his father as a tinsmith and ironmonger, later to run his own business in Newport… |
| Smale, Ian Stuart |
b Sussex 1949. In his youth a keen rugby player who preferred rugby songs to any others and showed no interest in his parentsâ faith, he found one Christmas that âGod revealed himself personally… |
| Knecht, Justin Heinrich |
b Biberach an der Riss, nr WĂźrtemburg, Germany 1752, d Biberach 1817. At first self-taught, he later studied music under Krämer and from 1768 to 1771 at the Lutheran Coll at Esslingen am Nechar… |
| 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,… |
