| Green, Keith |
b Brooklyn, New York 1953; d 1982. Born into a showbusiness family, he began on the ukulele at 3, piano at 6, and wrote his first songs at 11. Rejecting the Jewish faith of his parents and the… |
| Orr, James Edwin |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1912, d Asheville, N Carolina, USA 1987. When just turned 21, he sailed from his native Ireland to begin what became a lifetimeâs global evangelistic and teaching ministry. An… |
| Rees, William |
b Llansannan nr Denbigh (Clwyd) 1802, d 1883. He briefly attended the local school while also working on the family farm, largely teaching himself as he grew up from the Welsh literature available to… |
| Jolly, Hilary Jean |
b Watford, Herts 1945. Watford Girlsâ Grammar Sch and Ecole dâEtudes Bilingues du LycĂ©e Français de Londres. Following a âDamascus Rdâ conversion to Christ, she became a member of St Andrew… |
| Gardiner, William |
b Leicester 1769 [sic], d Leicester 1853. From his youth he entered and continued the family business as a stocking manufacturer (cf Wm Matthews, and authors Gadsby and H K White), and was also an… |
| Weber, Carl (Karl) Maria Friedrich Ernst von |
b Eutin, nr LĂŒbeck, N Germany 1786, d London 1826. Taught first by his erratic but gifted father, from 1798 he became a Salzburg Cathedral chorister and pupil of Michael Haydn. But after a series of… |
| 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… |
| Leeson, Jane Elizabeth (Eliza) |
b London 1809, d Leamington, Warwicks 1881 (Julian New Suppt gave 1807â1882). She lived in London and is known for writing several books of hymns, mainly for children. At some point she left the… |
| Wallace, John Aikman |
b Edinburgh 1802, d Trinity, nr Brechin, Midlothian (Angus) 1870. An ordained minister in the Ch of Scotland, serving at Hawick (Border), who left at the Disruption of 1843 for the Free Church along… |
| 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.… |
| The Christmas Box, 1825 |
(not in Praise! index). The first complete book published by the Religious Tract Society, decades before the Victorian (and post-Victorian) flood of carol-books, was this seasonal assortment including… |
| Redman, Matt |
b Watford, Herts 1974. Brought up from the age of 2 to attend St Andrewâs Church (CofE), Chorleywood, Herts, he learned there to value varied styles of Christian music. His Christian faith became… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Scriven, Joseph Medlicott |
b Seapatrick, Co Down, Ireland 1819, d Bewdley, Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada 1886. Trinity Coll Dublin, 1835; a member of the Christian (Plymouth) Brethren, he cut short his studies to enlist in the… |
| Clayton, Norman John |
b Brooklyn, NY, USA 1903, d 1992. A Baptist who learned the organ (from the age of a 12, a pump-organ) and played in churches for over 50 years. His first church was S Brooklyn Gospel Ch where he also… |
| Dawn, Maggi Eleanor |
b 1959. Her most popular single work featured in MP, Spring Harvest collections and other books of the 1980s-90s. Backed by music from husband Andy Cross she has recorded âSomething in the… |
| Cushing, William Orcutt |
b Hingham Center, Mass, USA 1823, d Lisbon, New York, 1902 or 1903. Ordained as a minister of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, he served several New York pastorates (listed by Gordon Taylor… |
| Johnson, Mark and Helen |
When Mark and Helen were married in 1988, they both had a keen interest in music. Helen had completed a degree course in English at Leicester University, followed by a PGCE at Froebel College,… |
| Colquhoun, Frances Sara (Fuller-Maitland) |
b Shinfield Park, nr Reading, Berks 1809, d Edinburgh 1877. She wrote at least 3 hymns before the age of 18, including her adaptation of the hymn by H K White (qv) with which she became associated.… |
| Rothe, Johann Andreas |
b Lissa, Silesia 1688, d Thommendorf, nr Bunzlau 1758. Univ of Leipzig (Theology); licensed as a Lutheran preacher in Görlitz. His first work after graduation was as a private tutor at Leube, but on… |
| Brady, Nicholas |
b Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland, 1659; d Richmond, Surrey 1726. Westminster School, Christ Ch Coll Oxford and Trinity Coll, Dublin (DD). After ordination, he was an incumbent in Co Cork and Prebendary of… |
| Macfarren, George Alexander |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1813, d St Johnâs Wood, London (Middx) 1887. He studied music under his father, the theatrical manager and dance instructor George McF senr, then with Charles Lucas and… |
| Ruddle, Valerie Anne |
b Gt Maplestead nr Halstead, Essex 1932. Royal Academy of Music and GRSM; music teacher in secondary schools (mainly before marriage) in Scunthorpe, Stourbridge and the Caribbean, and for the past 25… |
| Praetorius, Michael |
Praetorius - Lat form of Schulz/Schultze, b Kreuzburg-ander-Werra, Thuringia, Germany 1571, d Wolfenbuttel, Brunswick, Germany 1621. He attended the Latin Sch of Zerbst, Anhalt; then studied… |
| Sibelius, Jean (Johan Christian Julius) |
b HĂ€meenlinna (in Swedish, Tavastehus), a small town 100km N of Helsinki, Finland 1865, d JaË rvenpÀÀ, SW Finland 1957. Attracted to the piano at the age of 5, encouraged by his uncle the… |
| Ockenden, Lawrence Gordon |
A piano pupil at the age of 9, and choirboy at Hatch End, Middx; Merchant Taylorsâ School (learning the organ from age 13) 1958â64, then RAM until 1967 (LRAM, ARCO, GRSM). Teacher training at… |
| Martin, George Clement |
b Lambourn, nr Newbury, Berks 1844, d London 1916. On hearing Herbert S Oakeley (qv) play the music of Bach in his parish church at Lambourn, Martin resolved to become a musician. Not having played a… |
| Gurney, John Hampden |
GURNEY, John Hampden, b Serjeantsâ Inn, off Fleet St, London 1802, d St Marylebone, Middlesex (London) 1862. Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA 1824); abandoned law studies in order to be ordained (CofE)… |
| 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… |
