| Webb, George James |
b Berwick St John, Wilts (nr Shaftesbury) 1803, d Orange, New Jersey, USA 1887. A farmer’s son intended for the ministry who instead chose music for his profession. Studied at Salisbury Cathedral,… |
| 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… |
| Caldbeck, George Thomas |
b Waterford, Co Waterford, Southern Ireland 1852, d Epsom, Surrey 1918. The National Model Sch, Waterford and Islington Coll, London. Health problems frustrated his original hope to become an overseas… |
| Ireland, John Nicholson |
b Bowdon, nr Altrincham, Gtr Manchester (Ches) 1879, d Rock Mill, Washington, nr Steyning, W Sussex 1962. Born into a literary but less than happy family and losing both parents in his early years, he… |
| 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… |
| Kerry, Michael (Mike) |
b Szechwan, W China, of CIM parents. After education to A-level with a maths/science bias, he worked for 45 years as a computer programmer and consultant; he is now semi-retired and looks after… |
| Arnold, Samuel |
b London 1740, d Westminster, London (Middx) 1802. A boy chorister at the Chapel Royal c1750–58, he had ambitions to be an operatic composer and wrote for the Covent Garden Theatre including an… |
| Lew, Timothy T'ing Fang |
b Wenchau, Chekiang, China 1891, d Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 1947. Educated in China and at the Univs of Columbia and Yale, USA, and at New York’s Union Theological Seminary. He lectured in N… |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van |
b Bonn, Germany 1770, d Vienna, Austria 1827. For his indomitable ‘solitary greatness’ (G T Ferris) he was ‘the Shakespeare of music’. From a musical family, and in spite of an early distaste… |
| Perronet, Edward |
b Sundridge, nr Westerham Kent 1726, d Canterbury, Kent 1792. The grandson of David Perronet, the first of a French Huguenot family to settle in England in 1680, and son of Vincent, the long-serving… |
| Rogers, Phil |
b 1949. Bristol Univ (BSc 1971), followed by maths teaching. In 1979 he left his school job to work full-time in a SE London church. After 11 years he then moved to Bracknell, Berks, returned to… |
| Heermann, Johann |
b Raudten, Silesia 1585, d Lissa, Possen 1647. Born in poverty, he was his parents’ 5th and only surviving child whose mother vowed that he would be dedicated to God if he lived. After schooling and… |
| Synesius of Cyrene |
b Cyrene, N Africa c365–375, d c414 (given in Praise! as c430). Brought up in a wealthy family as a pagan gentleman, he studied at Alexandria under the neo-Platonist Hypatia, before travelling to… |
| Caswall, Edward |
b Yateley, Hants 1814, d Edgbaston (nr Birmingham), Warwicks 1878. 4th son of the Vicar of Yateley; Chigwell Grammar Sch, Essex; Marlborough Coll, Wilts; Brasenose Coll Oxford (BA 1836, MA). As a… |
| Richards, John ('Isalaw') |
b Bangor, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire) 1843, d Bangor 1901. Son of a sea captain, he was educated mainly in Birmingham and made music his career. As well as several hymn tunes, he composed anthems, part… |
| 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… |
| Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland |
b Westminster, London 1845, d E Cowes, Isle of Wight 1914. Eton Coll; St Andrews; and Trinity Coll Cambridge. He was Marquis of Lorne and sat as MP for Argyllshire 1868–78; in 1871 he married… |
| Harris, John |
b Ugborough, S Devon 1802, d Hampstead, Middx 1856. The eldest of 8 children, and not too robust, he helped in his father’s tailor’s and draper’s shop but spent much of his free time reading.… |
| Tucker, Francis Bland |
b Norfolk, Virginia, USA 1895, d Savannah, Georgia, USA 1974. Univ of Virginia (BA 1914). The 13th child of Bp Beverley and Mrs Anna Tucker, he taught in Kyoto, Japan, and in 1916 joined the US army,… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| Hutcheson, Charles |
b Glasgow 1792, d Glasgow 1860. A merchant and amateur musician, he belonged to St George’s Tron Church, in the heart of the city where he remained for all his life. In 1832 he published Christian… |
| Ingemann, Bernhardt Severin |
b Thorkildstrup (or Tockildstrup) on the island of Falster, Denmark 1789, d Sorø, Zealand (Sjaelland), Denmark 1862. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he fought in the defence of Copenhagen against the… |
| Guillebaud, Rosemary |
b 1915, d Cambridge 2002. Born into a missionary family, she first went to live in Africa at the age of 10, when her skill in translation first became apparent. She read Modern Langs at Cambridge Univ… |
| Pollock, Thomas Benson |
b Strathallan, Isle of Man 1836, d Bordesley, Warwicks 1896. Trinity Coll Dublin, first studying medicine but switching to theology; BA 1859. Ordained in 1861, he served as a curate in Leek, Staffs,… |
| 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… |
| Evans, M. Eddie |
b Talysarn, Gwynedd, N Wales 1890, d 1984. His parents owned and ran a grocer's shop in Talysarn. This was subsequently sold and the family moved to Liverpool where they opened a new grocer's shop.… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Theodulph of Orleans |
b ?Spain c750, Angers, NW France 821. As a relatively young man he was abbot of a monastery in Florence. Favoured by Charlemagne (‘Charles the Great’), he was brought to France to be Abbot of… |
