| Denny, Edward |
b Dublin (not Tralee), Ireland 1796, d Brompton, W London 1889. A member of the Christian (Plymouth) Brethren, he lived at Tralee Castle. While reputedly a shy man, he was known as a considerate… |
| Smale, Ian Stuart |
b Sussex 1949. In his youth a keen rugby player who preferred rugby songs to any others and showed no interest in his parentsā faith, he found one Christmas that āGod revealed himself personally… |
| Hussey, Jennie (Jenny) Evelyn |
b Henniker, NH, USA 1874, d Concord, NH 1958. Began writing verse as a child of about 8, and continued as an adult to write poems, childrenās stories, and over 150 hymns. A member of the Society of… |
| Porteous, Christopher Selwyn |
b London 1935. Dulwich Coll. Articled clerk in local govt with Malling (Kent) Rural District Council 1954-60; he qualified as a Solicitor in 1960, first with London County Council (till 1962), then… |
| Pott, Francis |
b Southwark (Surrey/S London) 1832, d Speldhurst nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1909. His first home was near the site of Shakespeareās Globe Theatre and of his fatherās vinegar factory. Brasenose Coll… |
| Voss, Hazel |
b (H Butler) at Lyndhurst, Hants 1951. Brockenhurst Grammar Sch and Weymouth Teacher Training Coll, Dorset; qualified as a teacher 1972. She taught reception and infant classes, then private all-age… |
| Giardini (Degiardino), Felice De |
b Turin, Italy 1716, d Moscow 1796. At school in Milan; he was a Cathedral chorister and youthful violinist, studying singing and composing for the harpsichord. On returning to Turin he had further… |
| Bewes, Richard Thomas |
b Nairobi, Kenya 1934, where he grew up. From a strong missionary family, he attended Marlborough Sch, Emmanuel Coll and Ridley Hall, Cambridge (MA) and was ordained in 1959. After a curacy at Christ… |
| Black, Brian |
b Hornsby, nr Sydney, NSW, Australia 1926. He took the Australian matriculation exam in 1952 and studied at Moore Theological Coll, Sydney, 1953ā56; ordained (Anglican) 1953. After a curacy at Seven… |
| Webster, Donald |
b Leeds 1926, d York 2002. A boy chorister at the notable Parish Church of Leeds, he trained as a teacher and after some years as a schoolmaster he went on to become a polytechnic lecturer. Musical… |
| Shephard, Richard |
b 1949. A boy chorister at Gloucester Cathedral who then studied at Corpus Christi Coll Cambridge. He held various teaching posts in Salisbury while also singing in the cathedral choir there. He was… |
| Routley, Erik Reginald |
b Brighton, Sussex 1917, d Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1982. Lancing Coll, Sussex; Magdalen Coll and Mansfield Coll Oxford (BA, BD); ordained (Congregational Ch) 1943. He served churches in… |
| Bilbrough, Dave |
b London 1955. He grew up in Romford, Essex, where he still lives. At the age of 14 he accepted an invitation to attend church. He valued the questions posed by some of Paul Simonās songs, and even… |
| Bode, John Ernest |
BODE, John Ernest, b St Pancras, Middx (C London) 1816, d Castle Camps (nr Haverhill), Cambs 1874. Eton Coll, Charterhouse Sch, and Christ Ch Oxford (BA, MA). Ordained (CofE) in 1841, he was Rector of… |
| 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 fatherās hero J S Bach. Like many later composers,… |
| Bourgeois Louis |
(with many varied spellings), b Paris c1500ā15, d ?Paris c1559ā61. Went with Calvin to Geneva in 1541 as Cantor of two churches, where the first clear reference to him appears in the City Council… |
| Noel, Caroline Maria |
b Teston nr Maidstone, Kent 1817, d Hyde Park, St Marylebone, Middx (London) 1877. She began her hymn-writing at the age of 17, producing a dozen or so texts before she was 20. Then for 20 more years… |
| Alexander, James Waddell |
b Hopewell, Virginia, USA 1804, d Sweetsprings, Va 1849. Princeton Theol Seminary (=Coll of New Jersey, 1820). A man from a Scottish family whose career alternated between pastoral and academic posts,… |
| Doane, George Washington |
b Trenton, New Jersey, USA 1799, d Burlington, NJ 1859. Union Coll, Schenectady, New York State, where he read Law. After enrolling as one of the General Theological Seminaryās first students, he… |
| Fudge, Roland |
b Bristol 1947. Bristol Univ (BMus with Theology, 1968); RAM 1968ā71 (ARCM). He began composing at 15; from 1970 to 1975 he played in the Sartori String Quartet based in London, Sussex Univ, then… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Stanford, Charles Villiers |
b Dublin 1852, d St Marylebone, C London 1924. Son of a Dublin lawyer who provided a private education and let him study music on condition that he first graduated. Queenās Coll, Cambridge… |
| Herrington, C Paul |
b Bradford, W Yorks 1948. Schools in Bradford and Isle of Wight; RAM 1965 (piano, organ and violin; LRAM, ALCM); Bretton Hall Coll of Education(Cert Ed). He was a secondary schoolteacher in Doncaster,… |
| Jones, William |
b Lowick, Northants 1726, d Nayland, Suffolk 1800. Charterhouse School (1740ā45) and Univ Coll, Oxford, where he studied music privately and was attracted by the writings of John Hutchinson… |
| Bonner, Carey |
(writing under the name of Edwyn Vincent), b Southwark, S London (Surrey) 1859, d Muswell Hill, Hornsey, N London (Middx) 1938. Plaistow Sch, London; he then trained for the Baptist ministry at Rawdon… |
| Herklots, Rosamond Eleanor |
b Masuri, N India 1905, d Greenwich, SE London 1987. Born into a gifted clerical and missionary family, she attended Leeds Girlsā High Sch and the Univ of Leeds (BA, French). After teacher training… |
| Greenwell, Dorothy ('Dora') |
b Greenwell Ford, Lanchester, nr Consett, Co Durham 1821, d Clifton, Bristol 1882. Sometimes thought to have been a Quaker because of her later sympathies, she came from a strongly clerical Anglican… |
| Marriott, John |
b Cottesbach, nr Lutterworth, Leicestershire 1780, d St Giles in the Fields, London 1825. Rugby Sch and Christ Church Coll Oxford; BA 1802, a 1st class degree in the first ever public exam for such… |
| Bliss, Philip P(aul) |
b Clearfield Co, Pa, USA 1838, d nr Ashtabula, Ohio, USA 1876. Originally named āPhilippā, he later dropped the final āpā and used it as a second initial. He was born in a log house and worked… |
