| Norton, Christopher |
b New Zealand 1953. Beginning to compose music from the age of 14, at 16 he had his first orchestral work performed and broadcast. After graduating in music from the Univ of Otago, Dunedin (1974), he… |
| Francis, Samuel Trevor |
b Cheshunt, Herts 1834, d Worthing, Sussex 1925. Moving in his early years to Hull, S Yorks, he received basic education from his aunt and grandmother. He was a choirboy at the parish church and in… |
| Black, Brian |
b Hornsby, nr Sydney, NSW, Australia 1926. He took the Australian matriculation exam in 1952 and studied at Moore Theological Coll, Sydney, 1953â56; ordained (Anglican) 1953. After a curacy at Seven… |
| Green, Keith |
b Brooklyn, New York 1953; d 1982. Born into a showbusiness family, he began on the ukulele at 3, piano at 6, and wrote his first songs at 11. Rejecting the Jewish faith of his parents and the… |
| Clephane, Elizabeth |
[given in error as âEdithâ in the Praise! index only] Cecilia Douglas, b Edinburgh 1830, d Bridgend House nr Melrose, Roxburgh 1869. Nicknamed âSunbeamâ from her early years and later… |
| Leckebusch, Martin Ernest |
b Leicester 1962. King Edward VII Coll, Coalville, Leics; Oriel Coll Oxford; BA/MA (Maths) 1983; Brunel Univ Middx, MSc (Numerical Analysis) 1984. He worked for 16 yrs as a Computer Systems… |
| Crossman, Samuel |
b Bradfield Monarchorum, Suffolk c1624, d Bristol, 1683/4. After study at Pembroke Coll Cambridge (BD) he became vicar of All Saintsâ Sudbury, Suffolk, which was in effect a Congregational or… |
| Cosin, John |
b Norwich 1594 or 1596, d Westminster, London 1671/2. Norwich Free Sch; Caius Coll Cambridge; ordained to serve in various parishes before becoming a Canon of Durham in 1625 and Rector of nearby… |
| Barnby, Joseph |
b York 1838, d Westminster, London 1896. A boy chorister at St Georgeâs 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… |
| John of Damascus |
b Damascus (Syria) c675, d c749. Taught by the elder Cosmas, a captive Sicilian monk; Johnâs father adopted another Cosmas (âthe melodistâ, also a hymnwriter), who with John enrolled at the… |
| Orr, James Edwin |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1912, d Asheville, N Carolina, USA 1987. When just turned 21, he sailed from his native Ireland to begin what became a lifetimeâs global evangelistic and teaching ministry. An… |
| Jolly, Hilary Jean |
b Watford, Herts 1945. Watford Girlsâ Grammar Sch and Ecole dâEtudes Bilingues du LycĂ©e Français de Londres. Following a âDamascus Rdâ conversion to Christ, she became a member of St Andrew… |
| Antes, John (Johann) |
b Frederick, nr Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA March 1739/40, d Bristol, England 1811. Son of German Moravian emigrants who settled in America where he grew up and showed early musical promise. He was… |
| Clayton, Norman John |
b Brooklyn, NY, USA 1903, d 1992. A Baptist who learned the organ (from the age of a 12, a pump-organ) and played in churches for over 50 years. His first church was S Brooklyn Gospel Ch where he also… |
| Claudius, Matthias |
b Reinfeld in Holstein, nr LĂŒbeck 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… |
| 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… |
| Boyce, William |
b Garlickhythe, London 1711, d Kensington, W London (Middx) 1779. A chorister at St Paulâs Cathedral who went on to be organist at several London churches: Oxford Chapel, St Peterâs Vere St from… |
| Wesley, Samuel Sebastian |
b St Marylebone, London 1810, d Gloucester 1876. Grandson of hymnwriter Charles W, son of the musical Samuel W jr; named after his father and his fatherâs hero J S Bach. Like many later composers,… |
| Tydeman, Ebenezer Alfred |
(given in Praise! and other books as âC A Tydemanâ); b Moulsham, Chelmsford, Essex 1842, d Godalming, Surrey, 1914. Coming from a family with roots in Suffolk and Essex, he was the son of Henry… |
| 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… |
| Price, Thomas (Tom) |
b Rhymney, Monmouthshire, S Wales 1857, d Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, S Wales 1925. From the age of 10 he worked in the S Wales coal-mines but gradually taught himself music, partly by joining local… |
| 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… |
| Bruce, Michael |
b Kinnesswood, Portmoak, Kinross 1746, d Kinnesswood 1767. The son of Alexander Bruce, a Scottish weaver who was an elder of the seceding church whose founder Ebenezer Erskine had ministered at… |
| Macfarren, George Alexander |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1813, d St Johnâs Wood, London (Middx) 1887. He studied music under his father, the theatrical manager and dance instructor George McF senr, then with Charles Lucas and… |
| Scheffler's Heilige Seelenlust (1657) |
Johann (or Johannes) Scheffler was b 1624 at Breslau in Silesia (Wroclau, Poland), raised in a noble but persecuted Lutheran family and was educated there and at the Univ of Strassbourg where he… |
| Norwood, John Thomas |
b Old Hill, Staffs 1934, d Halesowen, W Midlands 2005. Windsor High Sch, Halesowen; Martineau Teacher Training Coll Birmingham (DipTMH); Birmingham Poly (Diploma in Management). He worked as the… |
| Tallis, Thomas |
Tallis variously spelt, b 15â, d Greenwich, SE London (Kent) 1585. No records of his childhood survive, and he is first heard of c1530â31 as organist of a small Priory at Dover, which was… |
| Edwards, Brian Herbert |
(not in Praise! index), b Barnstaple, N Devon 1941. Borden Grammar Sch, Sittingbourne, Kent and London Bible Coll (BD 1963). Beginning his ministry in 1963 as asst at Lansdowne Evangelical Ch, SE… |
| Horsley, William |
b Mayfair, C London 1774, d Kensington, W London 1858. Studied somewhat unhappily under a London pianist, T Smith âfrom whom he received little tuition and much ill-treatmentââW Milgate. In 1794… |
| Reid, William Watkins Jnr |
b New York City, USA 1923; d 2007. Oberlin Coll and Yale Divinity Sch. From 1943 to 1945 he worked with the Medical Corps in the US Army and spent 8 months as a prisoner of war. Ordained to the… |
