| 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… |
| Gill, Thomas Hornblower |
b Bristol Rd, Birmingham 1819, d Grove Park, SE London 1906. King Edward’s Grammar Sch, Birmingham. Prevented from attending Oxford Univ by the Unitarian family faith (formerly Presbyterian) which… |
| 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… |
| Robinson, Joseph Armitage |
b Keynsham, Som 1858, d Upton Noble, Shepton Mallett, Som 1933. Christ’s Coll Cambridge (BA/MA); Fellow of the College 1881–1899; BD 1891, DD 1896. He was ordained (CofE) in 1881 and was briefly… |
| 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 ‘wild and reckless youth’ with what might today be called anti-social or… |
| Orr, James Edwin |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1912, d Asheville, N Carolina, USA 1987. When just turned 21, he sailed from his native Ireland to begin what became a lifetime’s global evangelistic and teaching ministry. An… |
| Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig von |
b Dresden, Germany 1700, d Herrnhut, Saxony 1760. The Adelspädagogium (school) at Halle, 1710–16; Univ of Wittenberg (degree in Law) 1716–19. Born into a wealthy branch of the German nobility,… |
| 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 1939–45. From 1945 to 1955 he… |
| Antes, John (Johann) |
b Frederick, nr Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA March 1739/40, d Bristol, England 1811. Son of German Moravian emigrants who settled in America where he grew up and showed early musical promise. He was… |
| Jarman, Thomas |
b Clipston, Northants (nr Market Harborough), 1776, d Clipston 1861. Following his father into the tailoring trade, he still made time for much music, largely self-taught by the Tonic Sol-Fa method.… |
| Scriven, Joseph Medlicott |
b Seapatrick, Co Down, Ireland 1819, d Bewdley, Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada 1886. Trinity Coll Dublin, 1835; a member of the Christian (Plymouth) Brethren, he cut short his studies to enlist in the… |
| 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… |
| Gruber, Franz Xaver |
b Unterweizburg, nr Hochburg, Upper Austria 1787, d Hallein, nr Salzburg 1863. As a boy he worked at the loom with his family of weavers. His parents were unwilling for him to develop his musical… |
| 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… |
| Brady, Nicholas |
b Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland, 1659; d Richmond, Surrey 1726. Westminster School, Christ Ch Coll Oxford and Trinity Coll, Dublin (DD). After ordination, he was an incumbent in Co Cork and Prebendary of… |
| Mason, John |
b ?Irchester, nr Rushden, Northants, c1646, d Water Stratford, Bucks 1694. Strixton Sch, Northants; Clare Hall, Cambridge. Following ordination he became curate of Isham, nr Kettering, Northants; in… |
| Needham Nicholas (Nick) |
b London 1959. Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar Sch; he was converted in 1976, and a year later read Augustine’s Confessions, which proved a life-changing experience. Edinburgh Univ 1978–87 (BD,… |
| Mountain, James |
b New Wortley, nr Leeds, Yorks 1844, d Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1933. Trained for ministry in the churches of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion at Rotherham College; subsequently at Nottingham,… |
| King, Andrew |
b Wroughton nr Swindon, Wilts 1961. Raised in the Gospel Standard Strict Baptist tradition in a family circle familiar with its classic hymns; converted at Caterham Baptist Ch in 1971, where he grew… |
| 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… |
| Sing Psalms |
1997ff. In writing in 1979 about the Scottish metrical Psalms in general and the Church Hymnary 3rd Edn (CH3, 1973) in particular, Erik Routley commended 3 versions by Ian Pitt-Watson (1921–95):… |
| 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… |
| Webster, Donald |
b Leeds 1926, d York 2002. A boy chorister at the notable Parish Church of Leeds, he trained as a teacher and after some years as a schoolmaster he went on to become a polytechnic lecturer. Musical… |
| Gardiner, William |
b Leicester 1769 [sic], d Leicester 1853. From his youth he entered and continued the family business as a stocking manufacturer (cf Wm Matthews, and authors Gadsby and H K White), and was also an… |
| Wigmore, Paul |
b Clapton, E London 1925. d May 16th, 2014. At schools in Middx, Herts and Barnstaple, Devon. After a series of brief jobs including a mechanical engineering apprenticeship cut short by injury and… |
| Hullah, John Pyke |
b Worcester 1812, d Westminster, London (Middx) 1884. Studying music in London under Wm Horsley (qv), he composed the music for the opera Village Coquettes, the text of which came from the pen of… |
| Burns, Edward (Eddie) Joseph |
b Nelson, Lancs 1938. Baines’ Grammar Sch, Poulton-le-Fylde nr Blackpool, Lancs; Liverpool Univ (BSc Chemistry, 1958), St Catherine’s Soc Oxford (BA Theology, MA), and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford… |
| Monsell, John Samuel Bewley |
b St Columb’s, 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… |
| 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… |
| Pope, Richard (Dick) Hudson |
b Putney, SW London 1879, d 1967. St Mark’s Sch, Chelsea. Raised in a strict, loving and godly family, he showed an early talent for writing (from pious hymns to gruesome ditties) and music (playing… |
