| Schultz, Johann Abraham Peter |
b LĂŒneburg, 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… |
| Zschech, Darlene |
(Zschech pronounced âCheckâ), b Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1965. Sang, spoke and danced on a weekly TV show from the age of ten and began songwriting at 15, including commercial advertising… |
| Kerry, Michael (Mike) |
b Szechwan, W China, of CIM parents. After education to A-level with a maths/science bias, he worked for 45 years as a computer programmer and consultant; he is now semi-retired and looks after… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Hopkins, Edward John |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1818, d Camden Town, N London 1901. One of a musical family, he was a Chapel Royal chorister at the age of 8 (1826â33), proficient at the organ from boyhood and… |
| 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… |
| Haydn, Franz Joseph |
b Rohrau, Lower Austria 1732, d Vienna 1809. The firstborn of the 20 children of a rural and musical couple, a wheelwright and a cook; elder brother of JMH, qv. He became a choirboy in Vienna… |
| Urhan, Chrétien |
b Montjoie nr Aix-la-Chapelle, France (now Aachen, Germany) 1790, d Paris, France 1845. As a young enthusiast for music, he was first taught the violin by his father and soon learned to play the viola… |
| Voss, Hazel |
b (H Butler) at Lyndhurst, Hants 1951. Brockenhurst Grammar Sch and Weymouth Teacher Training Coll, Dorset; qualified as a teacher 1972. She taught reception and infant classes, then private all-age… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Gounod, Charles-François |
b Paris, France 1818, d St Cloud nr Paris, 1893. His father having died in 1823, he was first taught music by his mother. He showed an early talent for painting, but at various Paris boarding schools… |
| 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… |
| Townend, Stuart |
b Edinburgh 1963, the son of a pastor who became a CofE vicar from 1970â85. He learned the piano from the age of 7, playing in church from 9 or 10, and family moves took him to Morley nr Leeds,… |
| Dawn, Maggi Eleanor |
b 1959. Her most popular single work featured in MP, Spring Harvest collections and other books of the 1980s-90s. Backed by music from husband Andy Cross she has recorded âSomething in the… |
| Maries, Andrew |
(in Praise! Composersâ index only), b Totton, Southampton 1949. Totton Grammar Sch, York Univ (BA, ARCM). A Music Director who in the 1970s and early 80s served as one of the creative and… |
| Stanford, Charles Villiers |
b Dublin 1852, d St Marylebone, C London 1924. Son of a Dublin lawyer who provided a private education and let him study music on condition that he first graduated. Queenâs Coll, Cambridge… |
| Bliss, Philip P(aul) |
b Clearfield Co, Pa, USA 1838, d nr Ashtabula, Ohio, USA 1876. Originally named âPhilippâ, he later dropped the final âpâ and used it as a second initial. He was born in a log house and worked… |
| Zundel, Veronica |
Born Coventry, 1953, of Austrian refugee parents; Barrs Hill Girlsâ Grammar Sch, Coventry, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Univ (English, BA 1975). She is married to Ed Sirett, an engineering… |
| 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,… |
| Tersteegen, Gerhard |
b Mörs, nr DĂŒsseldorf, Westphalia 1697, d 1769. Trained in the classics at the Latin sch in his home town, after his fatherâs death he was prevented by family poverty from taking a university… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Ward, James C |
James Ward was born in Belleville, Illinois, USA in March 1950.
He received a BA in Music at Covenant College in 1972 and an MM in Jazz piano from the University of Tennessee in 1996.
James was… |
| Bizet, Georges Alexandre CĂ©sar LĂ©opold |
b Paris, France 1838, d Bougival, nr Paris 1875. His early musical talent was encouraged mainly by his mother, and he was enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 9. For the next 9 years this… |
| 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,… |
| Bode, John Ernest |
BODE, John Ernest, b St Pancras, Middx (C London) 1816, d Castle Camps (nr Haverhill), Cambs 1874. Eton Coll, Charterhouse Sch, and Christ Ch Oxford (BA, MA). Ordained (CofE) in 1841, he was Rector of… |
| Foley, William Brian |
b Waterloo, Liverpool 1919; d 2000. St Maryâs Irish Christian Brothers Sch, Crosby, and Upholland Coll nr Wigan; ordained (RC Church) 1945. Served parishes in Liverpool, Bootle, Birkdale and (from… |
