| Cutts, Peter Warwick |
b Birmingham 1937. King Edward’s Sch, Birmingham; Clare Coll Cambridge; and Mansfield Coll Oxford. He was Tutor and Music Director at Bretton Hall Coll of Education nr Wakefield, Yorks, and shared… |
| Cox, Frances Elizabeth |
b Oxford 1812, d Iffley, nr Oxford 1897. She seems to have spent her life in or around Oxford, but in view of her literary achievements it is tantalising to know so little of her education and… |
| Shrubsole, William |
b Canterbury, Kent 1759, d London 1806. A chorister at Canterbury Cathedral 1775–82, he then became organist of Bangor Cathedral but was dismissed a year later because of his Free Church… |
| Moore's (The) Psalm-Singer's Pocket Companion |
c1756. A Scottish collection, the title of which continues, ‘...containing great variety of the best English Psalm-tunes, suited to the different metres in the Scotch version of the Psalms of David,… |
| 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… |
| Grant, John Webster |
b Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada 1919. Pictou Academy; Dalhousie Univ (BA, MA); Princeton Univ; and Pine Divinity Hall, Halifax. In 1943 he was ordained in the United Ch of Canada. After a short time at… |
| Gounod, Charles-François |
b Paris, France 1818, d St Cloud nr Paris, 1893. His father having died in 1823, he was first taught music by his mother. He showed an early talent for painting, but at various Paris boarding schools… |
| Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings |
b Bournemouth 1848, d Rustington, Sussex 1918. He began to compose at the age of 8; Twyford Sch nr Winchester (where he met S S Wesley); Eton Coll (where he met Sir Geo Elvey), during which time he… |
| Schultz, Johann Abraham Peter |
b Lüneburg, N Germany 1747, d Schwedt, Germany 1800. (His birthplace also features in the lives of Ebeling and J S Bach). His father, a baker, hoped he would train for ordination, but so committed… |
| Scott, Martin |
Martin was born in Motherwell in 1954. He attended Dalziel High School, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Jordanhill College of Education, International Baptist Seminary, Rüschlikon,… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| Sankey, Ira David |
b Edinburgh, W Penns, USA 1840, d Brooklyn, New York, USA 1908. Growing up near the Mahoning River, he joined in the family’s farm work at Western Reserve Harbour from the age of 6. He was converted… |
| Elgar, Edward William |
b Lower Broadheath nr Worcester 1857, d Worcester 1934. Born into a musical family (‘A stream of music flowed through our house’—EWE), he soon learned to play the piano, organ, cello, double… |
| Tydeman, Ebenezer Alfred |
(given in Praise! and other books as ‘C A Tydeman’); 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… |
| Gibbons, Orlando |
b Oxford 1583, d Canterbury, Kent 1625. The youngest and most gifted of 4 musical brothers, at King’s Coll Cambridge he was a choirboy from 1596 and a student from 1599, and at 21 organist of the… |
| 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… |
| Athanasius |
b Alexandria, Egypt c296, d Alexandria c373. After education probably in the city’s catechetical sch, he became sec to the bishop, attending him at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and succeeding him 3… |
| Wakely, Jenny |
Jenny was born in 1944 in Bexleyheath, Kent and died in 2014.
She attended Prendergast Grammar School in Catford before gaining a BSc and PhD from the University of London.
She worked in medical… |
| Benton, John Edward |
b Isleworth, Middlesex 1949. Southall Grammar Sch and Univ of Sussex (PhD). A journalist and minister of the gospel in the Grace Baptist tradition, he produced with Bill Bygroves in 1979 a collection,… |
| Tuttle, Carl |
b USA 1953. He became a Christian as a teenager c1967; in 1976 he began to meet for informal worship with friends, a fellowship which later became the Vineyard Church at Anaheim under the oversight of… |
| Draper, William Henry |
b Kenilworth, Warwicks 1855; d Clifton, Bristol 1933. Cheltenham Coll and Keble Coll Oxford; ordained (CofE) 1880. Curate and later vicar in Shrewsbury, also serving the parishes of Alfreton, Derbys,… |
| Duckworth, Francis |
b Rimington, nr Clitheroe, Lancs 1862, d Colne, Lancs 1941. He grew up next door to the Wesleyan Chapel, the musical and social centre of the village where (in the absence of an organ) 4 of the… |
| Tredinnick, Noël Harwood |
b Camberwell, London 1949. St Olave’s Grammar Sch (boy chorister at Southwark Cathedral), GSM (GGSM 1970), London Univ Inst of Education (PGCE 1971). Music Director, Langley Park Sch 1971–75;… |
| Neander, Joachim |
b Bremen, N Germany 1650, d Bremen 1680. His pastor-grandfather adapted the family name ‘Neumann’ to its Gk form. He attended the Paedagogium and Academic Gymnasium, Bremen; after his dissolute… |
| Coffin, Charles |
b Buzancy, Ardennes, France 1676, d Paris 1749. From 1712 he was principal of the Coll of Dormans-Beauvais, Univ of Paris, and in 1718 he became Rector of the University. Many of his (Lat) hymns… |
| Evans, David |
b Resolven, Glamorganshire, S Wales 1874, d Rhosllanerchrugogg, nr Wrexham, Denbighshire 1948. Not to be confused with his namesakes. Arnold Coll, Swansea; Univ Coll Cardiff; BMus and DMus (Oxford).… |
| Philip, William |
Rev, Dr William James Unwin Philip, MB ChB, MRCP, BD was born in Edinburgh in 1967. His father, James Philip, was minister of Holyrood Abbey Church. Through university and subsequent years working in… |
| Palmer, Ray |
b Little Compton, Rhode Is, USA 1808, d Newark, NJ, USA 1887. After a short period in business, at work in a Boston dry goods store, he studied at Phillips Academy, Andover and Yale Univ while also… |
| Clephane, Elizabeth |
[given in error as ‘Edith’ in the Praise! index only] Cecilia Douglas, b Edinburgh 1830, d Bridgend House nr Melrose, Roxburgh 1869. Nicknamed ‘Sunbeam’ from her early years and later… |
