| Fullerton, William Young |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1857, d Bedford Park, Middx 1932. Raised in a northern Irish Presbyterian home, he spent most of his adult life as a Baptist in England. At the age of 17 his desire to speak for… |
| Dykes, John Bacchus |
b Kingston-upon-Hull 1823, d Ticehurst, Sussex 1876. Son of a musical banker, he learned violin and piano but loved the organ best. An organist at 10 at St John’s Hull where his grandfather… |
| Harris, Thoro |
b Washington DC, USA 1873 or 1874, d Eureka Springs, Arkansas 1955. Following college studies in Battle Creek, Michigan, he became a prolific writer and publisher of gospel songs. The first of his… |
| Light, Alfred Weldon |
b Hants 1873, d Longford, nr Colnbrook, Bucks 1954. Apprenticed to a Basingstoke saddler at 13; in 1888 his work took him to Whitechapel, E London, and in 1895 to Falmouth. In 1898 he was invited by… |
| 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… |
| Landis, Keith |
b 1922. Ordained in the Episcopal Church in N America, he served for some years from 1959 as rector of Anglican parishes in S California; St Bartholomew’s Pico Rivera, St Luke’s Fontana, and… |
| Milman, Henry Hart |
b St James’s, Middx (London), 1791, d Sunninghill nr Ascot, Berks 1868. Dr Burney’s Academy at Greenwich; Eton Coll; Brasenose Coll Oxford, later a Fellow. While a student his many honours… |
| Walter, William Henry |
b Newark, New Jersey, USA 1825, d New York, 1893. As a boy he played the organ at both the Presbyterian and the Grace Episcopal (Anglican) churches in Newark; and became organist for a time at both.… |
| Jones, William |
b Lowick, Northants 1726, d Nayland, Suffolk 1800. Charterhouse School (1740–45) and Univ Coll, Oxford, where he studied music privately and was attracted by the writings of John Hutchinson… |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jacob Ludwig Felix |
b Hamburg, Germany 1809, d Leipzig 1847, Grandson of a philosopher (Moses M) and son of a banker who converted from Judaism to Lutheran Christianity (hence the compound surname), befriended by Goethe.… |
| Thring, Godfrey |
b Alford, Som 1823, d Shamley Green, nr Godalming, Surrey 1903. Shrewsbury Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford. Ordained (CofE) 1846. After curacies at Stratfield-Turgis and Stratfield Saye (both nr Basingstoke,… |
| Purday, Charles Henry |
b Folkestone, Kent 1799, d Notting Hill, London 1885. Born into a musical family he became a musician, publisher and lecturer in music. From the 1840s he was Precentor (Conductor of the Psalmody) at… |
| Spitta, Carl Johann Phillip |
b Hanover, Germany 1801, d Burgdorf, Germany 1859. The son of a French father and a Christian Jewish mother, he was a writer of verse from the age of 8 and apprenticed at first to a watchmaker, he… |
| Fellingham, David (Dave) |
b Horsham, Sussex 1945. His Salvationist family settled in Tongham near Aldershot, where he responded to the gospel as a child, finding that faith and music mixed easily. He attended George Abbot Sch… |
| Borthwick, Jane Laurie |
b Edinburgh, Scotland 1813, d Edinburgh 1897. A member of the Free Ch of Scotland and known for her unassuming gentleness, she was encouraged by her father (James, an insurance office manager) to… |
| Habershon, Ada |
Ada Habershon was born on January 8, 1861, at St. Marylebone, London, England.
She was the youngest daughter of Doctor Samuel Osborne Habershon and Grace Habershon. She was brought up in a Christian… |
| Maker, Frederick Charles |
b Clifton, Bristol 1844, d Bristol (1 Jan) 1927. A choirboy at Bristol Cathedral, he went on to play the organ at several Free Churches in the city including Methodist and Congregational chapels, most… |
| Pritchard, Thomas Cuthbertson Leithead |
b Gorbals, Glasgow 1885, d Glasgow 1960. Glasgow Univ (MA) and Trinity Coll Dublin (graduated in music, ARCM); he also studied at York Minster. He became Organist and Choirmaster of the United Free Ch… |
| Longstaff, William Dunn |
b Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (Co Durham) 1822, d Sunderland 1894. A businessman and ship-owner, he was a former member of the CofE who helped to establish the Bethesda Free Chapel founded in Sunderland… |
| Massie, Richard |
b Chester, Ches 1800, d Pulford Hall, Coddington, nr Chester 1887. The son of a clerical family, he inherited two large ancestral estates and spent most of his time in (and on) his garden and with his… |
| Dennison, Dorothy |
(Mrs G Golden); b 1900, d ? She is probably to be identified with the author of several books for teenage girls in the 1930s and 40s, parallel to Montague Goodman’s series for boys. These were… |
| Chisholm, Thomas Obadiah |
b Franklin, rural Kentucky, USA 1866; d Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA 1960. Raised on a small farm and educated in a small country school, at 16 he became a rural schoolteacher and at 21 the editor of… |
| Garrett, Dale |
b New Zealand 1939. As a girl she encountered Christian teaching which challenged her way of life, but as a teenager she showed some early rebellion which was later replaced by growing commitment. A… |
| Columba |
(Col[u]mcille, ‘the holy dove’), b Gartan, Co Donegal, Ireland 521, d Iona, Scotland 597. Born into a noble and powerful Irish family of the clan of Ui Neill, he was trained in monasteries in… |
| Jarman, Thomas |
b Clipston, Northants (nr Market Harborough), 1776, d Clipston 1861. Following his father into the tailoring trade, he still made time for much music, largely self-taught by the Tonic Sol-Fa method.… |
| 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… |
| Sullivan, Arthur Seymour |
b Lambeth, Surrey (S London) 1842, d Westminster, London 1900. First learning music from his father who was a sergeant-bandmaster at Sandhurst, he showed early promise on the piano and with wind… |
| Iona Community |
The present community, based on the Inner Hebridean island where Columba (qv) landed in 563 and which has had a mixed history ever since, was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, a Ch of Scotland… |
| Simpkin, Richard Benjamin |
b Bloxwich, Staffs 1969. Eton College (music scholar); Gonville and Caius Coll Cambridge (organ scholar, BA/MA). His musical life began in the choir of Lichfield Cathedral, where as a violinist he… |
| Ackley, Bentley DeForest |
b Spring Hill, Pa, USA 1872, d Winona Lake, Indiana, USA 1958. As a boy he learned at least 5 different instruments including brass, woodwind and keyboard, taking a part in his father’s 14- piece… |
