| Daw, Carl Pickens (jr) |
b Louisville, Kentucky 1944. Rice Univ, Univ of Virginia, Univ of the South. From a Baptist background, he became an Anglican and was ordained to ministry with the Episcopal Ch of the USA, serving… |
| Bruce, Michael |
b Kinnesswood, Portmoak, Kinross 1746, d Kinnesswood 1767. The son of Alexander Bruce, a Scottish weaver who was an elder of the seceding church whose founder Ebenezer Erskine had ministered at… |
| 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,… |
| Allen, Cecil John |
b Clapton, Middx 1886, d Gloucs 1973. Joined the Engineerâs Dept of the Great Eastern Railway, whose history he later wrote, at 17; later became an inspector of materials for LNER (the London and… |
| Crossman, Samuel |
b Bradfield Monarchorum, Suffolk c1624, d Bristol, 1683/4. After study at Pembroke Coll Cambridge (BD) he became vicar of All Saintsâ Sudbury, Suffolk, which was in effect a Congregational or… |
| Fawcett, John (A) |
b Lidget Green nr Bradford, Yorks Jan 1739/40, d Hebden Bridge, Halifax, Yorks 1817. His father died when John was 4, leaving his mother to bring up a large and very poor family. He learned to read… |
| Wordsworth, Christopher |
b Lambeth, S London (Surrey) 1807, d Harewood, Yorkshire 1885. A nephew of William W (whose brief biography he was later to write), he lost his mother before he was 7; Winchester Coll and Trinity Coll… |
| Williams, Isaac |
b Cwmcynfelyn, Cardigan 1802, d Stinchcombe, nr Dursley, Glos 1865. A writer of verse from the age of 12; Harrow Sch; Trinity Coll Oxford (becoming a Fellow in 1829). Ordained (CofE) 1825, to a curacy… |
| Cosin, John |
b Norwich 1594 or 1596, d Westminster, London 1671/2. Norwich Free Sch; Caius Coll Cambridge; ordained to serve in various parishes before becoming a Canon of Durham in 1625 and Rector of nearby… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Ferguson, John |
b Manchester 1921, d Birmingham 1989. Having trained in classics and theology he was appointed Prof of Classics at the Univ of Ibadan, Nigeria; and became founding Dean of Arts in the UKâs Open… |
| Baughen, Michael Alfred |
b Borehamwood, Herts 1930. Bromley County Grammar Sch, Kent and (after brief spells at Martinâs Bank) Oak Hill Theol Coll (BD London). Ordained (CofE) 1956; curacies at Nottingham and Reigate… |
| Niles, Daniel Thambyrajah |
b Telipallai, Sri Lanka 1908, d Vellore, S India 1970. Univ of Ceylon (law); ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1932. He became a Local Minister and Circuit Superintendent, Chairman of N Ceylon… |
| Deale, Edgar Martin |
b Dublin 1902, d 1999. A lover of good music, he said, âeven from my cradleâ; he sang in the Christ Ch Cathedral choir and attended the Cathedral Grammar Sch, enjoying both sport and all kinds of… |
| Auber, Henriette |
(often âHarrietâ in error), b Spitalfields, Middx (E London) 1773, d Hoddesdon, Herts 1862. She was a descendant of Huguenot refugees from the revoked Edict of Nantes (1685), many of whom settled… |
| Tucker, Francis Bland |
b Norfolk, Virginia, USA 1895, d Savannah, Georgia, USA 1974. Univ of Virginia (BA 1914). The 13th child of Bp Beverley and Mrs Anna Tucker, he taught in Kyoto, Japan, and in 1916 joined the US army,… |
| Motyer, John Alexander (Alec) |
b Dublin 1924. d 2016. The High School, Dublin and Trinity Coll, Univ of Dublin; MA, BD, with several prizes, and Lambeth DD (1997). Ordained (CofE) in 1947, he served curacies in Penn Fields… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Perronet, Edward |
b Sundridge, nr Westerham Kent 1726, d Canterbury, Kent 1792. The grandson of David Perronet, the first of a French Huguenot family to settle in England in 1680, and son of Vincent, the long-serving… |
| 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… |
| Prudentius, Marcus Aurelius Clemens |
b Caesarauguta, N Spain 348, d c413. Trained as a lawyer, he practised as a judge and made his main career in civil administration, culminating in being made chief of the emperor Honoriusâ imperial… |
| Barthélémon, François Hippolyte |
b Bordeaux, France 1741, d Southwark, S London (Surrey) 1808. Eldest of the 16 children born to a French government official (and wig-maker) and an Irish lady, and a talented violinist from his youth,… |
| Isaac or Isaak, Heinrich |
(many spellings extant), b Flanders, Brabant, Belgium (or S Netherlands or Germany) c1450, d 1517 or 1527. He is known to have been an accomplished composer by the 1470s, but is first heard of… |
