| Idle, Christopher Martin |
b Bromley, Kent 1938. Eltham Coll, St Peterās Coll Oxford (BA, English), Clifton Theol Coll Bristol; ordained in 1965 to a Barrow-in-Furness curacy. He spent 30 years in CofE parish ministry, some… |
| Stevens, John |
b Aldwincle, nr Kettering, Northants 1776, d ?London 1847. After a Northants boyhood, he travelled to London when he was about 16, joining the Baptist Ch at Grafton St, Soho. The pastor there was… |
| Foley, William Brian |
b Waterloo, Liverpool 1919; d 2000. St Maryās Irish Christian Brothers Sch, Crosby, and Upholland Coll nr Wigan; ordained (RC Church) 1945. Served parishes in Liverpool, Bootle, Birkdale and (from… |
| Fullerton, William Young |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1857, d Bedford Park, Middx 1932. Raised in a northern Irish Presbyterian home, he spent most of his adult life as a Baptist in England. At the age of 17 his desire to speak for… |
| Hull, Eleanor Henrietta |
b Cheetham, nr Manchester 1860, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1935. Alexandra Coll, and the Royal Coll of Science, both in Dublin. Her interest in the Celtic tradition led her to become the first London… |
| Barnby, Joseph |
b York 1838, d Westminster, London 1896. A boy chorister at St Georgeās Windsor aged 7, he was an organist at 12 and choirmaster at 14. After studies at the RAM from 1854 (aged 16) he had two brief… |
| Wren, Brian |
b Romford, Essex 1936. Romford Liberty Grammar Sch; New Coll Oxford (BA Mod Langs 1960); Mansfield Coll Oxford 1960ā62, followed by research on OT prophets (PhD 1968). He was ordained in 1965 to the… |
| Jude, William Herbert |
b Westleton, nr Aldeburgh, Suffolk 1851, d Willesden, Middx 1922. During early years at Wisbech Grammar Sch, Cambs, he wrote incidental music from the age of 8 onwards for school productions of… |
| Patrick |
b ?Ailclyde, now Dumbarton c370 (or the village of Bannaven), d Saul, Co Down, Ireland c461. Born to a Romano-British family, at 16 he was enslaved and taken to Ireland by raiders. In Co Antrim and/or… |
| Townend, Stuart |
b Edinburgh 1963, the son of a pastor who became a CofE vicar from 1970ā85. 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,… |
| Pierson, Arthur Tappan |
b New York, USA 1837, d 1911. (His second Christian name was that of the N American hymnwriting evangelist William Tappan, 1794ā1849.) Hamilton Coll, NY, and Union Theol Seminary. Ordained in the… |
| Zschech, Darlene |
(Zschech pronounced āCheckā), 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… |
| Theodulph of Orleans |
b ?Spain c750, Angers, NW France 821. As a relatively young man he was abbot of a monastery in Florence. Favoured by Charlemagne (āCharles the Greatā), he was brought to France to be Abbot of… |
| Deck, James George |
b Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1802, d Motueka, Tasman Bay, S Island, New Zealand 1884. He belonged to the Christian (Plymouth) Brethren but joined the Indian service as an army officer; he may have… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Ouseley, Frederick Arthur Gore |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1825, d Hereford 1889. The musical infant prodigy son (beginning to compose at the age of 3) of an ambassador and baronet. Educated first at home, he then had tuition… |
| Williams, Peter |
b Llansadyrnin (Llansadurnin), nr St Clears, Carmarthen 1721/22, d Llandyfeilog (Llandyfaelog), nr Kidwelly, Carmarthen 1796. Carmarthen Grammar Sch, Carmarthen Coll. Warned by a tutor against the… |
| Shirley, William Walter |
b Staunton Har(r)old, nr Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics 1725, d Dublin 1786. Born into the aristocratic nobility, he became āthe Hon and Revā Walter Shirley on his ordination in 1749 in the (Anglican)… |
| Haworth, Bryn |
b Darwen, Lancs 1948. At 11 he was given his first guitar and has loved the instrument ever since. By the age of 16 he had moved from classical to electric guitar and was touring with Cliff Richard… |
| Schicht, Johann Gottfried |
b Reichenau (now Bogatynia), nr Zittau, Saxony (Poland) 1753, d Leipzig, Germany 1823. Brought up by an uncle, he was taught to play the keyboard by Johann Trier, studying the organ and piano but… |
| Cousin, Anne Ross |
(nĆ©e Cundell), b Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks 1824, d Edinburgh 1906. A gifted musician and linguist, she was the daughter of a Episcopalian doctor, who in 1847 became a Free Ch ministerās wife, first… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Holst, Gustavus Theodore (von Holst) |
b Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 1874, d Ealing, Middlesex 1934. Son of a Swedish father and church organist (whose own composer father had come to England in 1807) and an English (pianist) mother, after… |
| Howorth, David |
b 1866, d 1947. A music-lover from his early years and soon a pianist, he was brought up in the CofE but later joined the Particular Baptist Ch at Tong, Bacup, Lancs, and was baptized in Dec 1892. His… |
| Alcuin (Ealhwine) |
b York, c735, d ?Tours, France, c804. He was educated in the cathedral school in his native York under Archbp Egbert, becoming its master in 766 and gaining a scholarly reputation as librarian. In 782… |
| Columba |
(Col[u]mcille, āthe holy doveā), b Gartan, Co Donegal, Ireland 521, d Iona, Scotland 597. Born into a noble and powerful Irish family of the clan of Ui Neill, he was trained in monasteries in… |
| Higham, William Vernon |
b Caernarfon, Gwynedd, N Wales 1926. His bilingual family moved to Bolton, Lancashire, in 1939, after years of widespread poverty, and he attended the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel with them. At… |
| Sears, Edmund Hamilton |
b Sandisfield, Mass, USA 1810, d Weston, Mass 1876. Union Coll Schenectady, NY and Harvard Univ Divinity Sch. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister but (not uniquely in that persuasion) claimed to… |
