| Crothers, John |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1948. Belfast Royal Academy; Queenās Univ Belfast; Univ of Ulster, Coleraine. MA, Dip Ed, DASE, CELTA, Cert L Fr (Paris IV, Sorbonne). Church organist since early 1970s. Teaches… |
| Tallis, Thomas |
Tallis variously spelt, b 15ā, d Greenwich, SE London (Kent) 1585. No records of his childhood survive, and he is first heard of c1530ā31 as organist of a small Priory at Dover, which was… |
| 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,… |
| Arnold, Samuel |
b London 1740, d Westminster, London (Middx) 1802. A boy chorister at the Chapel Royal c1750ā58, he had ambitions to be an operatic composer and wrote for the Covent Garden Theatre including an… |
| Hopkins, Edward John |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1818, d Camden Town, N London 1901. One of a musical family, he was a Chapel Royal chorister at the age of 8 (1826ā33), proficient at the organ from boyhood and… |
| Pritchard, Thomas Cuthbertson Leithead |
b Gorbals, Glasgow 1885, d Glasgow 1960. Glasgow Univ (MA) and Trinity Coll Dublin (graduated in music, ARCM); he also studied at York Minster. He became Organist and Choirmaster of the United Free Ch… |
| Payne, Ernest Alexander |
b Hackney, NE London 1902, d Camden, N London 1980. Kingās Coll, London; Regents Park Coll, London; Mansfield Coll Oxford. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, he served at Bugbrooke Baptist Ch nr… |
| Maries, Andrew |
(in Praise! Composersā index only), b Totton, Southampton 1949. Totton Grammar Sch, York Univ (BA, ARCM). A Music Director who in the 1970s and early 80s served as one of the creative and… |
| Mainzer, Joseph |
b TrĆØves (Trier), France 1801, d Salford, Gtr Manchester (Lancs) 1851. He attended the MaĆ®trise (choir school) of Trier Cathedral, but went on to study mining engineering, including work in the… |
| 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… |
| Borthwick, Jane Laurie |
b Edinburgh, Scotland 1813, d Edinburgh 1897. A member of the Free Ch of Scotland and known for her unassuming gentleness, she was encouraged by her father (James, an insurance office manager) to… |
| 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… |
| Robinson, Robert |
b Swaffham, Norfolk 1735, d Showell Green, nr Birmingham, Warwicks 1790. His first job was as a London barberās apprentice, during which time he preferred his books to his business. When he was 17… |
| 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.… |
| Miles, Gary Lewis |
b Enid, Oklahoma, USA 1947, d USA ?1990s. Univ of Houston, Texas (BA Mus 1970) and in the UK the GSM (post-grad diploma in singing). A member of the Community of Celebration formerly led by Graham and… |
| 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… |
| Downton, Henry |
b Pulverbatch, SW of Shrewsbury, Shrops 1818, d Hopton, Suffolk 1885. Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA/MA); ordained (CofE) 1843. He was Curate of Bembridge, IoW, and Holy Trinity Cambridge, then from 1849… |
| Zundel, Veronica |
Born Coventry, 1953, of Austrian refugee parents; Barrs Hill Girlsā Grammar Sch, Coventry, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Univ (English, BA 1975). She is married to Ed Sirett, an engineering… |
| Booth, Gordon Thomas |
b Teddington, Middlesex 1922. d New Fairholme, Oswestry 15th July, 2013. Converted 1935 through Upper Tooting Crusaders, he trained for the Congregational ministry at New Coll, London. Ā After serving… |
| Schein, Johann Hermann |
b GrĆ¼nhain, 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… |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jacob Ludwig Felix |
b Hamburg, Germany 1809, d Leipzig 1847, Grandson of a philosopher (Moses M) and son of a banker who converted from Judaism to Lutheran Christianity (hence the compound surname), befriended by Goethe.… |
| Coates, Eric |
b Hucknall, Notts 1886, d Chichester, Sussex 1957. RAM from 1906; a viola player (and violinist) who became one of the finest composers of songs, light orchestral and film music of the mid-20th c, and… |
| Pulkingham, Betty Jane |
(neĆ© Carr), b Burlington, N Carolina, USA 1928. Univ of N Carolina Womenās Coll (graduated BS in music) and the Eastman Sch of Music; she then taught music theory at the Univ of Texas. With husband… |
| Fortunatus, Venantius Honorious Clementianus |
b Treviso district, Venetia, N Italy c535, d Poitiers, France c600ā610. Educated at Ravenna, N Italy, where he trained in oratory and poetry In his travels he would sometimes pay for his keep with a… |
| Harris, John |
b Ugborough, S Devon 1802, d Hampstead, Middx 1856. The eldest of 8 children, and not too robust, he helped in his fatherās tailorās and draperās shop but spent much of his free time reading.… |
| Samuel, Leith |
b Wallasey, Merseyside (Ches) 1915, d Frinton, Essex 1999. Wallasey Grammar Sch; Univ of Liverpool 1933ā36, Queenās Coll Birmingham 1936ā37. He worked at St Markās New Ferry from 1937ā38… |
| Brownlie, John |
(formerly Brownlee), b Glasgow 1857 (1859, Julian), d Crieff, Perthshire 1925. Univ of Glasgow and the Free Church College. Licensed to preach in 1884, he served the Free Ch of Scotland congregation… |
| Needham Nicholas (Nick) |
b London 1959. Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar Sch; he was converted in 1976, and a year later read Augustineās Confessions, which proved a life-changing experience. Edinburgh Univ 1978ā87 (BD,… |
| Sparrow-Simpson, William John |
(aka Simpson, W J S), b London 1859, d Ilford, Essex 1952. St Paulās Sch; Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA, 1st in theology, MA). He was ordained in 1882 and served in 3 central London parishes (Albany… |
| 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 (1921ā95):… |
