| Ruddle, Valerie Anne |
b Gt Maplestead nr Halstead, Essex 1932. Royal Academy of Music and GRSM; music teacher in secondary schools (mainly before marriage) in Scunthorpe, Stourbridge and the Caribbean, and for the past 25… |
| Ferguson, John |
b Manchester 1921, d Birmingham 1989. Having trained in classics and theology he was appointed Prof of Classics at the Univ of Ibadan, Nigeria; and became founding Dean of Arts in the UKās Open… |
| 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… |
| Weber, Rhiannon Nest |
b Cardiff 1949. As a child she enjoyed Ficer Pritchardās books of rhymes about Christian faith and life, written for memorising during a time of limited literacy in Welsh. Graduated BSc; as well as… |
| Davies, Samuel |
b nr Summit Ridge, Newcastle Co, Delaware, USA 1723 (or 1726?), d Princeton, NJ, USA 1761. Educated privately under the guidance of Samuel Blair, a clergyman from Chester Co, Pennsylvania. As a young… |
| Clements, Keith Winston |
b Szechwan (Sichuan), W China 1943. King Edward VII Sch Lytham, Lancs, Kingās Coll Cambridge (MA 1969), and Regents Park Coll Oxford; ordained to the Baptist ministry 1967. He served first in… |
| Tersteegen, Gerhard |
b Mƶrs, nr DĆ¼sseldorf, Westphalia 1697, d 1769. Trained in the classics at the Latin sch in his home town, after his fatherās death he was prevented by family poverty from taking a university… |
| 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… |
| Kaan, Frederik Herman (Fred) |
b Haarlem, Netherlands 1929.d Cumbria 2009. After a childhood under Nazi occupation when his parents sheltered Jewish people at great personal risk, he came to England to study in 1952. He ministered… |
| Daw, Carl Pickens (jr) |
b Louisville, Kentucky 1944. Rice Univ, Univ of Virginia, Univ of the South. From a Baptist background, he became an Anglican and was ordained to ministry with the Episcopal Ch of the USA, serving… |
| Pal, Krishna |
b 1764, d 1822. A carpenter and Hindu guru, his name gradually became known worldwide when he became the first Christian convert from Hinduism after 7 years of missionary work by Wm Carey, Joshua… |
| 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… |
| Bakewell, John |
b Brailsford, nr Derby 1721, d Lewisham, Kent (SE London) 1819. He was converted at the age of 18 through reading the classic Human Nature in its Fourfold State (1720, 1729) by the Scots Calvinist… |
| Iliff, David |
b 1939. Formerly Director of Music at Emmanuel Church Northwood, N London; then from 1985 for more than 20 years at The British School of Brussels, Belgium, for English-speakers from more than 70… |
| 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… |
| Horsley, William |
b Mayfair, C London 1774, d Kensington, W London 1858. Studied somewhat unhappily under a London pianist, T Smith āfrom whom he received little tuition and much ill-treatmentāāW Milgate. In 1794… |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian |
b Eisenach, Thuringia, central Germany 1685, d Leipzig, Germany 1750. Beginning as a choirboy, cared for by musical elder brother and with initial training at Ohrdurf, LĆ¼neburg and LĆ¼beck (under… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Redhead, Richard |
b Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex 1820, d Hellingly, Hailsham, Sussex 1901. At 9 years old he became a boy chorister at Magdalen Coll Oxford; while still only 19 he was invited by Frederick Oakeley (qv)… |
| 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… |
| Baker, Henry Williams |
b Vauxhall, S London, 1821; d Monkland, Herefs 1877. The eldest son of an Admiral and Baronet; Trinity Coll Camb (BA, MA), ordained (CofE) 1844. After a curacy at Great Horkesley nr Colchester, Essex,… |
| Martin, George Clement |
b Lambourn, nr Newbury, Berks 1844, d London 1916. On hearing Herbert S Oakeley (qv) play the music of Bach in his parish church at Lambourn, Martin resolved to become a musician. Not having played a… |
| Wordsworth, Christopher |
b Lambeth, S London (Surrey) 1807, d Harewood, Yorkshire 1885. A nephew of William W (whose brief biography he was later to write), he lost his mother before he was 7; Winchester Coll and Trinity Coll… |
| Polman, Bert |
b Rozenburg, The Netherlands 1945. After his first 2 years spent in Indonesia, he returned to Holland and in 1955 emigrated with his family to Canada. He studied at Dordt Coll, Sioux Center, Iowa (BA… |
| 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… |
| Doerksen, Brian |
b British Columbia, Canada 1965. Mennonite Educational Inst, Abbotsford, BC; graduated 1983. Born of Ukrainian parents who belonged to the Mennonite Ch at Abbotsford, Brian āinherited a love of… |
| Gaunt, Howard Charles Adie |
b Edgbaston, Birmingham 1902, d Winchester, Hants 1983. Tonbridge Sch; Kingās Coll Cambridge (BA 1925, MA). He played hockey and tennis for Cambridge and cricket for Warwicks; became asst master at… |
| Franck, Johann |
b Guben, Brandenburg 1618, d Guben 1677. After his lawyer father died, the infant Johann was cared for and adopted by a relative. His schooling was partly in Guben, followed by study at the Univ of… |
| 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… |
