| Schultz, Johann Abraham Peter |
b Lüneburg, 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… |
| Ambrose of Milan |
b at or nr Treves (Trier, Germany) c339–340, 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… |
| 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 UK’s Open… |
| 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 parents’ faith, he found one Christmas that ‘God revealed himself personally… |
| Schein, Johann Hermann |
b Grünhain, nr Annaburg (now Annaberg-Bucholz), Saxony (Germany) 1586, d Leipzig, Germany 1630. When the family moved to Dresden following the early death of his father, a Lutheran pastor, the young… |
| Marshman, Joshua |
b Westbury Leigh, nr Bath, Som 1768, d Serampore, India 1837. Largely self-educated owing to his family’s poverty, he worked first for his father in the weaving trade. He taught for a time at a… |
| 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… |
| Arnold, Samuel |
b London 1740, d Westminster, London (Middx) 1802. A boy chorister at the Chapel Royal c1750–58, he had ambitions to be an operatic composer and wrote for the Covent Garden Theatre including an… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Troeger, Thomas H |
b Suffern, New York. Graduate of Yale Univ; Colgate Rochester Divinity Sch where he also taught before becoming Peck Prof of Preaching and Communication, the Iliff Sch of Theology, Denver, Colorado.… |
| Berthier, (Jean) Jacques |
b Auxerre, Burgundy, France 1923, d Paris 1994. As the Organist of St Ignatius’ Ch, Paris, which became a leading centre of French liturgical renewal, he was a prolific composer. But he has become… |
| Smith, Walter Chalmers |
b Aberdeen 1824, d Kinbuck, Dunblane, Perthshire (Stirling) 1908. Aberdeen Grammar Sch and Marischal Coll; Aberdeen Univ (MA 1841); then studied under Thos Chalmers at New Coll Edinburgh. After a… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott |
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.… |
| Tydeman, Ebenezer Alfred |
(given in Praise! and other books as ‘C A Tydeman’); 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 ‘Something in the… |
| 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… |
| 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 ‘Mary… |
| 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 WCD’s father; Wm J Dix was a high church… |
| 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… |
| 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 E’s… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
