| Fudge, Roland |
b Bristol 1947. Bristol Univ (BMus with Theology, 1968); RAM 1968–71 (ARCM). He began composing at 15; from 1970 to 1975 he played in the Sartori String Quartet based in London, Sussex Univ, then… |
| Knecht, Justin Heinrich |
b Biberach an der Riss, nr Würtemburg, Germany 1752, d Biberach 1817. At first self-taught, he later studied music under Krämer and from 1768 to 1771 at the Lutheran Coll at Esslingen am Nechar… |
| Boyce, William |
b Garlickhythe, London 1711, d Kensington, W London (Middx) 1779. A chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral who went on to be organist at several London churches: Oxford Chapel, St Peter’s Vere St from… |
| Barton, Bernard |
b Middlesex 1784, d Woodbridge, Suffolk 1849. (His birthplace has sometimes been given as Carlisle, but that seems to be a mistake.) In any event the family, members of the Society of Friends, moved… |
| Kirkpatrick, William James |
b Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA 1838, d Germantown, Penns 1921. Learned music first from his father and then from other teachers. A lifelong Methodist, he had varied careers as a fife major during the… |
| Horder, Mervyn |
b 1910, d London 1997. Like H H Milman (see Authors’ index) he was the son of a royal physician—in this case Sir Thomas (the first Lord) Horder, who numbered Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones among his… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Voss, Hazel |
b (H Butler) at Lyndhurst, Hants 1951. Brockenhurst Grammar Sch and Weymouth Teacher Training Coll, Dorset; qualified as a teacher 1972. She taught reception and infant classes, then private all-age… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Ewing, Alexander |
b Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1830, d Taunton, Som 1895. Marischal Coll, Aberdeen, where he began a legal training which he never completed. He travelled to Heidelberg to study music, became… |
| Brooks, Phillips |
b Boston, Mass, USA 1835, d Boston, 1893. Boston Lat Sch; Harvard Univ; Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Ch in 1859, and began his ministry in the Ch of the… |
| Swann, Donald Ibrahim |
b Llanelli, Carmarthens, S Wales 1923; d Clapham, S London, 1994. Westminster Sch and Christ Ch Oxford (BA, Russian and Modern Gk). In the second world war he served as a noncombatant with the Friends… |
| Thring, Godfrey |
b Alford, Som 1823, d Shamley Green, nr Godalming, Surrey 1903. Shrewsbury Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford. Ordained (CofE) 1846. After curacies at Stratfield-Turgis and Stratfield Saye (both nr Basingstoke,… |
| Barthélémon, François Hippolyte |
b Bordeaux, France 1741, d Southwark, S London (Surrey) 1808. Eldest of the 16 children born to a French government official (and wig-maker) and an Irish lady, and a talented violinist from his youth,… |
| 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… |
| Foley, William Brian |
b Waterloo, Liverpool 1919; d 2000. St Mary’s Irish Christian Brothers Sch, Crosby, and Upholland Coll nr Wigan; ordained (RC Church) 1945. Served parishes in Liverpool, Bootle, Birkdale and (from… |
| Zschech, Darlene |
(Zschech pronounced ‘Check’), 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… |
| Dykes, John Bacchus |
b Kingston-upon-Hull 1823, d Ticehurst, Sussex 1876. Son of a musical banker, he learned violin and piano but loved the organ best. An organist at 10 at St John’s Hull where his grandfather… |
| Wren, Brian |
b Romford, Essex 1936. Romford Liberty Grammar Sch; New Coll Oxford (BA Mod Langs 1960); Mansfield Coll Oxford 1960–62, followed by research on OT prophets (PhD 1968). He was ordained in 1965 to the… |
| Mainzer, Joseph |
b Trèves (Trier), France 1801, d Salford, Gtr Manchester (Lancs) 1851. He attended the Maîtrise (choir school) of Trier Cathedral, but went on to study mining engineering, including work in the… |
| Rawson, George |
b Leeds, Yorks 1807, d Clifton, Bristol 1889. Manchester Grammar Sch; he qualified and practised as a solicitor and belonged to the Congregational church. With Conder and others he edited The Leeds… |
| Twigg, Geoffrey |
Geoff Twigg was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in 1951 and died in Silverdale, Pennsylvania on October 27th 2018.
He studied at London University's Goldsmith's College in South East London, and… |
| Williams, Isaac |
b Cwmcynfelyn, Cardigan 1802, d Stinchcombe, nr Dursley, Glos 1865. A writer of verse from the age of 12; Harrow Sch; Trinity Coll Oxford (becoming a Fellow in 1829). Ordained (CofE) 1825, to a curacy… |
| 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… |
| Reed, Andrew |
b St Clement Danes, Middx (C London) 1787, d Cambridge Heath, Hackney, Middx (NE London) 1862. He followed his father in his London watchmaking business, studying at home until in 1807 Matthew Wilks… |
| Horsley, William |
b Mayfair, C London 1774, d Kensington, W London 1858. Studied somewhat unhappily under a London pianist, T Smith ‘from whom he received little tuition and much ill-treatment’—W Milgate. In 1794… |
| Milman, Henry Hart |
b St James’s, Middx (London), 1791, d Sunninghill nr Ascot, Berks 1868. Dr Burney’s Academy at Greenwich; Eton Coll; Brasenose Coll Oxford, later a Fellow. While a student his many honours… |
| Greenwell, Dorothy ('Dora') |
b Greenwell Ford, Lanchester, nr Consett, Co Durham 1821, d Clifton, Bristol 1882. Sometimes thought to have been a Quaker because of her later sympathies, she came from a strongly clerical Anglican… |
