| Croft, William |
b Nether Eatington (Ettington), Warwicks 1678, d Bath, Somerset 1727. Chapel Royal chorister under John Blow; probably organist at St Anneâs Soho from 1700, then again at the Chapel Royal, at first… |
| Troeger, Thomas H |
b Suffern, New York. Graduate of Yale Univ; Colgate Rochester Divinity Sch where he also taught before becoming Peck Prof of Preaching and Communication, the Iliff Sch of Theology, Denver, Colorado.… |
| 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,… |
| Layfield, Stephen (Steve) |
b Leeds, W Yorks 1960. The Yorkshire Martyrs Sch, Bradford and Keele Univ (BA, Maths and Physics). He has taught science since the mid-1980s, mostly in schools in and around W Yorks. Up to 2000 he… |
| 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… |
| Hassler, Hans Johann Leo |
b NĂźremburg, Germany 1564, d Frankfurtam- Main, Germany 1612. Taught music by his father Isaak (c1530â91), in 1584 he became one of the first German musicians to travel to Italy, arriving in Venice… |
| Woodbury, Isaac Baker |
b Beverley, Massachusetts, USA 1819, d Columbia, S Carolina, USA 1858. Growing up to learn the blacksmithâs trade, his growing love of music led him to study at Boston, Mass, where he also became… |
| Neander, Joachim |
b Bremen, N Germany 1650, d Bremen 1680. His pastor-grandfather adapted the family name âNeumannâ to its Gk form. He attended the Paedagogium and Academic Gymnasium, Bremen; after his dissolute… |
| Lloyd, John Ambrose |
b Mold, Flintshire 1815, d Liverpool 1874. Moved to Liverpool when 15, and the next year composed his first hymn tune there. A commercial traveller (representative) who had music lessons but was… |
| Sibelius, Jean (Johan Christian Julius) |
b Hämeenlinna (in Swedish, Tavastehus), a small town 100km N of Helsinki, Finland 1865, d JaË rvenpää, SW Finland 1957. Attracted to the piano at the age of 5, encouraged by his uncle the… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Crothers, John |
b Belfast, N Ireland 1948. Belfast Royal Academy; Queenâs Univ Belfast; Univ of Ulster, Coleraine. MA, Dip Ed, DASE, CELTA, Cert L Fr (Paris IV, Sorbonne). Church organist since early 1970s. Teaches… |
| Ninnis, Peter James |
b Croydon, Surrey 1948. He was raised in âa chapel-going but not overtly Christianâ family. Trinity Sch of John Whitgift, Croydon; followed by training for the horticultural industry (Advanced Nat… |
| 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… |
| Brownlie, John |
(formerly Brownlee), b Glasgow 1857 (1859, Julian), d Crieff, Perthshire 1925. Univ of Glasgow and the Free Church College. Licensed to preach in 1884, he served the Free Ch of Scotland congregation… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Pott, Francis |
b Southwark (Surrey/S London) 1832, d Speldhurst nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1909. His first home was near the site of Shakespeareâs Globe Theatre and of his fatherâs vinegar factory. Brasenose Coll… |
| Crossman, Samuel |
b Bradfield Monarchorum, Suffolk c1624, d Bristol, 1683/4. After study at Pembroke Coll Cambridge (BD) he became vicar of All Saintsâ Sudbury, Suffolk, which was in effect a Congregational or… |
| 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… |
| Owen, William (Prysgol) |
b Bangor, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire) 1813, d Caernarvon 1893. Following his father into work at the stone quarries at the age of 10, he soon began to study music, and the quarry cliffs would echo to… |
| Cameron, William |
b Lochaber, nr Ballater, Aberdeenshire 1751, d Kirknewton, nr Livingston, W Lothian (Midlothian) 1811. A farmerâs son from the parish of Glenmuick, he graduated from Marischal Coll in the Univ of… |
| 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… |
| Shirley, William Walter |
b Staunton Har(r)old, nr Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics 1725, d Dublin 1786. Born into the aristocratic nobility, he became âthe Hon and Revâ Walter Shirley on his ordination in 1749 in the (Anglican)… |
| Barnes, Gerald Linton |
b Hampstead, N London, 1935. A church organist, who was briefly at Tetherdown Congregational Ch (now URC), Muswell Hill, 1955â56. FRCO, GRSM, ARCM (London); now living in Finchley, N London. He… |
| 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 fatherâs hero J S Bach. Like many later composers,… |
| Dix, William Chatterton |
b Bristol 1837, d Cheddar, Axbridge, Som 1898. He was named after the young poetic genius Thos Chatterton, whose tragically brief life had been chronicled by WCDâs father; Wm J Dix was a high church… |
| James, Frederic(k) |
b Masborough, Rotherham, Yorks 1858, d Bradford, Yorks 1922. Son of Wesleyan Methodists, he began to deputise for his father on the organ from the age of 11. He also played the violin and double-bass.… |
