| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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.… |
| 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… |
| Shaw, Martin Edward Fallas |
b Kennington, Surrey/SW London 1875, d Southwold, Suffolk 1958. Elder brother of G T Shaw qv. He studied at RCM and directed music in theatres (where he belonged to a Bohemian Chelsea set of artists,… |
| 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… |
| Jackson, Francis Alan |
b Malton, N Yorks 1917. York Minster Choir Sch and chorister 1929–33; Univ of Durham (studying under Sir Edward Bairstow, who proved a formative and lasting influence). After serving as Organist of… |
| Deale, Edgar Martin |
b Dublin 1902, d 1999. A lover of good music, he said, ‘even from my cradle’; he sang in the Christ Ch Cathedral choir and attended the Cathedral Grammar Sch, enjoying both sport and all kinds of… |
| Pantry, John |
b Harrow, Middx 1946. After school he trained in recording engineering studios in C London for two and a half years, while developing his own singing and songwriting gifts. So he has been a performer… |
| 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):… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| Hatch, Edwin |
b Derby 1835, d Headington, Oxford 1889. King Edward’s Sch, Birmingham and Pembroke Coll Oxford (BA 1857). Before going to Oxford, in 1853, he left nonconformity to join the CofE, and afterwards, in… |
| Tang, Agnes |
b Malaysia 1945. She lived for some years in New Cross, SE London; worked in the Law Courts as a court reporter, and as a speech-to-text reporter for deaf people. She has studied at RSCM and is a… |
| Pierson, Arthur Tappan |
b New York, USA 1837, d 1911. (His second Christian name was that of the N American hymnwriting evangelist William Tappan, 1794–1849.) Hamilton Coll, NY, and Union Theol Seminary. Ordained in the… |
| Elliott, Emily Elizabeth Steele |
b Brighton, Sussex 1836, d Hove, Sussex (or Islington?) 1897. Niece of Charlotte E (see above) and daughter of a vicar whose sermons dwelt much on prophecy. In 1866 she issued a small collection of… |
| Foundling Hospital Collection |
London, 1796 and 1801. Originally Psalms, Hymns and Anthems of the Foundling Hospital, followed by other edns. Musically this London orphanage, famous for its organists and its singing children,… |
| 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… |
| Weber, Rhiannon Nest |
b Cardiff 1949. As a child she enjoyed Ficer Pritchard’s books of rhymes about Christian faith and life, written for memorising during a time of limited literacy in Welsh. Graduated BSc; as well as… |
| 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… |
| Darwall, John |
b Haughton, nr Stafford, Staffs 1731, d Walsall, Staffs 1789. Born into a clerical family; entered Manchester Grammar Sch as a boarder at 16 and Brasenose Coll Oxford at 20; BA 1756, later BD.… |
| Phillips, Ann |
b Ramsgate, Kent 1930. Clarendon House Grammar Sch for Girls, Ramsgate, and St Hilda’s Coll Oxford. She worked in publishing and became chief sub-editor for Cambridge Univ Press until her… |
| Smart, Henry Thomas |
b St Marylebone, Middx (London) 1813, d Hampstead, Middx 1879. Highgate Sch; gave up training as a solicitor for a largely self-taught musical career notwithstanding his musical relatives (see… |
| Evans, David Emlyn |
b Castellnewydd (Newcastle) Emlyn, Penralltwen, Dyfed (Cardiganshire) 1843, d Cemmaes, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 1913 (or London?). Apprenticed to a draper and clothier, he worked in that business… |
| Pilcher, Charles Venn |
b Oxford 1879, d Sydney, NSW, Australia 1961. Charterhouse Sch; Hertford Coll Oxford (BA, MA, BD). Ordained in 1903, he was a curate in Birmingham before becoming chaplain to Bp Handley Moule of… |
| Johnston, Phil Lawson |
b London 1950. Eton Coll (where his songwriting began), and Inchbald Sch of Design (History of Art). From 1971 he has worked as a self-taught professional glass-engraver; from 1972, when he… |
| Stainer, John |
b Southwark, Surrey (London) 1840, d Verona, Italy 1901. His musical education began at home, as his father taught him on a small chamber-organ; losing the sight of his left eye when he was 5, he was… |
| 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… |
| Weber, Carl (Karl) Maria Friedrich Ernst von |
b Eutin, nr Lübeck, N Germany 1786, d London 1826. Taught first by his erratic but gifted father, from 1798 he became a Salzburg Cathedral chorister and pupil of Michael Haydn. But after a series of… |
| 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.… |
