| Baring-Gould, Sabine |
b Exeter, Devon 1834, d Lew Trenchard, nr Tavistock, Devon 1924. Clare Coll Cambridge (BA, MA 1856); he taught briefly at the choir school of St Barnabas Pimlico, London, and then as Headmaster of… |
| Brown, Arthur Henry |
b Brentwood, Essex 1830, d Brentwood 1926. Starting to play the organ from the age of 10, he was organist of Brentwood Parish Ch from 1842 (aged 12) to 1853, then moving to Romford for 5 years before… |
| Zeuner, (Charles) Heinrich Christoph |
b Eisleben, Saxony, Germany 1795, d nr Delaware River, Philadelphia, USA 1857. Having been a court musician for the German military, Changing his original first name to Charles when emigrating to N… |
| Hood, Edwin Paxton |
b Half Moon St, Piccadilly (or ?Hanover Square), C London 1820, d Paris 1885. Son of one of Nelson’s seamen and a domestic servant, he was orphaned at the age of 6 and had no formal schooling. But… |
| Claudius, Matthias |
b Reinfeld in Holstein, nr Lübeck 1740, d Wandsbeck nr Hamburg, Germany 1815. Univ of Jena. He made his home at Wandsbeck, having been diverted by the prevalent German rationalism from his original… |
| Rolinson, Christopher Philip |
b Walsall, Staffs (now W Midlands) 1958. Queen Mary Grammar Sch, Walsall, where he began serious composing in 1974; Univ of Birmingham (BMus 1979, Cert Ed). He worked with British Youth for Christ,… |
| Savage, Beverley (Bev) |
b Woodlands (between Cadnam and Lyndhurst), New Forest, Hants 1940. Woodford Sch, Essex; S Wales Bible Coll. After 10 years in heavy engineering on the railways, became pastor of an FIEC church in NW… |
| Dennison, Dorothy |
(Mrs G Golden); b 1900, d ? She is probably to be identified with the author of several books for teenage girls in the 1930s and 40s, parallel to Montague Goodman’s series for boys. These were… |
| Bridge, Basil Ernest |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1927. City of Norwich School and Cheshunt Coll, Cambridge (BA/MA). In 1951 he was ordained to the pastorate at Knowle (Warwicks), then Abbot’s Rd Congregational (now URC)… |
| Barnby, Joseph |
b York 1838, d Westminster, London 1896. A boy chorister at St George’s 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Kocher, Conrad |
b Ditzingen, nr Stuttgart, Germany 1786, d Stuttgart 1872. He left home at 17 to work at St Petersburg as a tutor. While there he heard the works of Haydn and Mozart and resolved on a musical career.… |
| 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… |
| Wilson, John Whitridge |
b Bournville, Warwicks (W Midlands) 1905, d Guildford, Surrey 1992. Manchester Grammar Sch, Dulwich Coll, and Sidney Sussex Coll Cambridge (Physics and Maths; later MusB). At 23 he decided on a career… |
| Mowbray, David |
b Wallington, Surrey 1938. Dulwich Coll; Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge (MA); Clifton Theological Coll, Bristol (BD). Ordained (CofE) 1963, he served parishes in Northampton (as curate), Watford… |
| Briggs, George Wallace |
b Kirkby, Notts 1875, d Hindhead, Surrey 1959. Emmanuel Coll Cambridge (BA in Classics, 1897); following ordination in 1899 he was a curate in Wakefield, a Royal Naval chaplain from 1902–09… |
| 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… |
| Tate, Nahum |
(formerly TEATE), b Dublin 1652, d Southwark, London 1715. Trinity Coll Dublin. When he reported a revolutionary plot to the authorities, his Dublin home was burned down and 3 of his children were… |
| 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… |
| Chisholm, Thomas Obadiah |
b Franklin, rural Kentucky, USA 1866; d Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA 1960. Raised on a small farm and educated in a small country school, at 16 he became a rural schoolteacher and at 21 the editor of… |
| Taylor, Cyril Vincent |
b Wigan, Lancs 1907, d Petersfield, Hampshire 1991. Magdalen College Sch (boy chorister); Christ Church Coll Oxford (MA); Westcott House Oxford; ordained (CofE) 1931. Curate at Hinckley and Kingswood,… |
| 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… |
| Miller, Edward |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1735, d Doncaster, Yorks 1807. Having begun to follow his father in the stone-paving trade, he left home abruptly to study music, playing the flute in Handel’s London orchestra at… |
| Chope, Richard Robert |
(not in Praise! index), b Bideford, Devon 1830; d Wimbledon, Surrey 1928. Exeter Coll Oxford (BA, MA); ordained 1856, serving west country curacies in Stapleton, Sherborne, Upton Scudamore and… |
| Noel, Caroline Maria |
b Teston nr Maidstone, Kent 1817, d Hyde Park, St Marylebone, Middx (London) 1877. She began her hymn-writing at the age of 17, producing a dozen or so texts before she was 20. Then for 20 more years… |
| 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. Queen’s Coll, Cambridge… |
| Boberg, Carl Gustaf |
(not in Praise! index), b Monsteras, SE Sweden 1859 (or 1856), d Kasimar, Sweden 1940 He grew up in his coastal birthplace, became a sailor, and was converted at 19. He attended the Bible school at… |
| Littledale, Richard Frederick |
b Dublin 1833, d Bloomsbury, C London 1890. Bective House Seminary and Trinity Coll, Dublin (BA 1855, LL.D 1862); Oxford DCL, 1862. Ordained in 1856, he served contrasting curacies at Thorpe Hamlet nr… |
