| Milgrove, Benjamin |
b Bath, Som 1731, d Bath 1810. A seller of toys and fancy goods at Bond St, Bath; his profession was given as a ‘toyman’. By the mid-18th c he was also Precentor and Organist at Bath, at the… |
| Norwood, John Thomas |
b Old Hill, Staffs 1934, d Halesowen, W Midlands 2005. Windsor High Sch, Halesowen; Martineau Teacher Training Coll Birmingham (DipTMH); Birmingham Poly (Diploma in Management). He worked as the… |
| Bourgeois Louis |
(with many varied spellings), b Paris c1500–15, d ?Paris c1559–61. Went with Calvin to Geneva in 1541 as Cantor of two churches, where the first clear reference to him appears in the City Council… |
| Price, Thomas (Tom) |
b Rhymney, Monmouthshire, S Wales 1857, d Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, S Wales 1925. From the age of 10 he worked in the S Wales coal-mines but gradually taught himself music, partly by joining local… |
| Kocher, Conrad |
b Ditzingen, nr Stuttgart, Germany 1786, d Stuttgart 1872. He left home at 17 to work at St Petersburg as a tutor. While there he heard the works of Haydn and Mozart and resolved on a musical career.… |
| Tans'ur (Tanzer), William |
b Dunchurch, nr Rugby, Warwicks c1700, d St Neots, Hunts 1783. The son of a village labourer, he travelled widely (for his day) from Surrey to Lincolnshire to play the organ and teach Psalmody, until… |
| Tallis, Thomas |
Tallis variously spelt, b 15—, d Greenwich, SE London (Kent) 1585. No records of his childhood survive, and he is first heard of c1530–31 as organist of a small Priory at Dover, which was… |
| Daniels, John |
b Cowplain, nr Portsmouth, Hants 1951. After schooling at Churcher’s Coll, Petersfield, he worked for 2 engineering companies (ONC, Business Studies) until moving into full time Christian music in… |
| Niles, Daniel Thambyrajah |
b Telipallai, Sri Lanka 1908, d Vellore, S India 1970. Univ of Ceylon (law); ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1932. He became a Local Minister and Circuit Superintendent, Chairman of N Ceylon… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| Winslow, John Copley (Jack) |
b Hanworth, Middx 1882, d Godalming, Surrey 1974. Eton Coll; Balliol Coll Oxford (BA/MA, classics). He trained at Wells Theol Coll, and after ordination (in 1906, CofE) and a curacy at Wimbledon, he… |
| Kitson, Charles Herbert |
b Leyburn, N Yorks 1874, d Kensington, W London 1944. Ripon Sch, Yorks, and Selwyn Coll Cambridge (organ scholar, divinity prize, MA). He studied music further at Oxford, and not pursuing his original… |
| Prudentius, Marcus Aurelius Clemens |
b Caesarauguta, N Spain 348, d c413. Trained as a lawyer, he practised as a judge and made his main career in civil administration, culminating in being made chief of the emperor Honorius’ imperial… |
| 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… |
| Reid, William Watkins Jnr |
b New York City, USA 1923; d 2007. Oberlin Coll and Yale Divinity Sch. From 1943 to 1945 he worked with the Medical Corps in the US Army and spent 8 months as a prisoner of war. Ordained to the… |
| Fawcett, John (C) |
b Wennington, nr Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancs 1789, d Bolton, Lancs 1867. A shoemaker by trade, he was musically self-taught and eventually able to leave his business to become a psalmodist and professional… |
| Jones, Robert (Bobi) Maynard |
b Cardiff, S Wales 1929. Cathays High Sch, where he learned Welsh and soon became fluent in its written and spoken forms, and the Univ of Wales; he also studied at the Univ of Ireland and Laval Univ,… |
| 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… |
| Francis, Samuel Trevor |
b Cheshunt, Herts 1834, d Worthing, Sussex 1925. Moving in his early years to Hull, S Yorks, he received basic education from his aunt and grandmother. He was a choirboy at the parish church and in… |
| Holland, Henry Scott |
b Underdown, Ledbury, Herefords 1847, d Oxford 1918. Eton Coll; Balliol Coll Oxford (BA, MA); subsequently Senr Student and Tutor of Christ Ch, 1870–84. Ordained (CofE) 1872; Select Preacher to… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Miller, Edward |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1735, d Doncaster, Yorks 1807. Having begun to follow his father in the stone-paving trade, he left home abruptly to study music, playing the flute in Handel’s London orchestra 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Mohr, Joseph Franz |
b Salzburg, Austria 1792, d Wagrein, Austria 1848. Brought up by foster parents including an RC priest, he sang as a choirboy in Salzburg Cathedral. He went on to be ordained (RC) in 1815 and… |
| 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… |
