| Ahle, Johann Rudolph |
b Mülhausen, Thuringia (W Germany, now Mulhouse in E France) 1625, d Mülhausen 1673. Colleges (Gymnasia) of Mülhausen and Göttingen, and from 1645 the Univ of Erfurt. In 1646 he was appointed… |
| Oakeley, Frederick |
b Shrewsbury, Shrops 1802, d Islington, Middx (N London) 1880. After a private education he studied at Christ Ch Oxford (BA 1824); ordained in 1826; Fellow and Chaplain of Balliol 1827. At Oxford he… |
| Bridges, Matthew |
b Maldon, Essex 1800, d Sidmouth, Devon 1894. Brought up in the CofE, brother of the evangelical pastor/expositor (and friend of the Moule family) Charles B, he was influenced by the Oxford movement… |
| 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… |
| MacGregor, Duncan |
b Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire 1854, d Inverallochy, Aberdeenshire 1923. The parish sch, Dunrichen, Forfarshire, and the Univ of Aberdeen. He served as a missionary at Drumoak and Kincardine before… |
| Nyberg, Anders |
b Sweden 1955 (not in Praise! index). A Swedish choral conductor, arranger and publisher whose name is not included in Praise!, though he is credited with collecting and translating stz 1 of 891. He… |
| Barnard, John |
b Harrow, Middx (NW London), 1948. John Lyon (secondary) Sch, Harrow, and Selwyn Coll Cambridge; he returned to the John Lyon Sch as a teacher of German, then Deputy Head, from 1974 to 2002. A… |
| Sayer, Paul |
b Twickenham, Middx 1934. d 2012. He was an associate of the Chartered Inst of Bankers and worked in banking until retirement. A former Elder of Hook Evangelical Ch (FIEC) in Surbiton, he subsequently… |
| Young, John Freeman |
b Pittston, Maine, USA 1820, d New York 1885. Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, Connecticut. He then joined the Protestant Episcopal (Anglican) Church, training at the Virginia Theological Seminary at… |
| Plessis, Malcolm du |
b Durban, S Africa 1956, to an English-speaking mother and an Afrikaans-speaking father. Members of the du Plessis family were prominent in the early 20th-c years of Pentecostalism in the USA, but in… |
| Mawson, Linda |
Linda was born in Woking, Surrey 1947. She studied at the Royal College of Music and gained a BMus, GRSM, ARCM (Piano) Having worked in Music Education as both Piano Teacher and Secondary Music… |
| Lew, Timothy T'ing Fang |
b Wenchau, Chekiang, China 1891, d Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 1947. Educated in China and at the Univs of Columbia and Yale, USA, and at New York’s Union Theological Seminary. He lectured in N… |
| 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… |
| Waring, Anna Laetitia |
b Plas-y-Velin, Neath, Glam (Neath) 1823, d Clifton, Bristol 1910. After an upbringing within the Society of Friends, and for a while attending Bethany Baptist Ch in Cardiff, she joined the CofE at… |
| Peterson, Mark |
Mark Peterson was born in Sydney, Australia.
He has been the Music Minister at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, Australia, from 2005.
Mark has published the following;
Highest Place (1998) –… |
| Byrom, John |
b Kersall (Kersal), nr Manchester, Feb 1691/92, d Manchester 1763. Merchant Taylor’s Sch, N London, and Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA/MA), of which he became a Fellow in 1714. In 1719 he studied… |
| Prout, Ebenezer |
b Oundle, Northants 1835, d Dalston, NE London 1909. Born in a Congregational Manse but not encouraged to pursue music seriously; after some school-teaching he took the London Univ BA in 1854). He had… |
| Scott-Gatty, Alfred Scott |
b Ecclesfield, nr Sheffield, S Yorks 1847, d St Marylebone, C London 1918. Born into a clerical family as A S Gatty, he coupled his mother’s maiden name (not his wife’s) with his own. His great… |
| Watson, Philip Begbie |
b Cardiff, S Wales 1936. Univ of Wales, Cardiff (BA, ARCM Diploma). For many years he taught music in a variety of secondary schools, including the post of Director of Music Studies at Queen’s… |
| Hayes, Pamela |
b London 1933, d Roehampton, SW London 2001. Joining the RC Community of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, then at Woldingham, nr Caterham, Surrey, in 1954, she became a fully professed member (RSCJ) in… |
| Steggall, Charles |
b London 1826, d Lambeth, London 1905. RAM 1847–51, organist at Christ Ch, Maida Hill. DMus (Camb) 1851; the RAM’s first (and chief) Prof of organ, a post he held for 50 years. As co-founder of… |
| Norton, Christopher |
b New Zealand 1953. Beginning to compose music from the age of 14, at 16 he had his first orchestral work performed and broadcast. After graduating in music from the Univ of Otago, Dunedin (1974), he… |
| 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… |
| Clifford, Alan Charles |
b Aldershot, Hants 1941. Fernhill County Secondary Sch, Farnborough. He served an Engineering apprenticeship in aircraft manufacturing before studying philosophy and theology at Univ Coll of N Wales,… |
| Hankey, Arabella Catherine (Katherine?) |
b Clapham, Surrey (S London) 1834, d Westminster 1911. Born into an evangelical Anglican banking family active in The Lord’s Day Observance Society and part of what was dubbed ‘the Clapham Sect’… |
| Matson, William Tidd |
b W Hackney, London 1833, d Portsea, Hants 1899. Named after his godfather, the leading QC Wm Tidd, he was educated privately under the Rev J M Gould, then at St John’s Coll Cambridge and the… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Bakewell, John |
b Brailsford, nr Derby 1721, d Lewisham, Kent (SE London) 1819. He was converted at the age of 18 through reading the classic Human Nature in its Fourfold State (1720, 1729) by the Scots Calvinist… |
| Tchaikovsky (Chayovski etc), Peter Ilich (Pyotr Ilyich) |
b Kamsko-Votinsk, Vyatka, Russia 1840, d St Petersburg, Russia 1893. Showing an early sensitivity to words, and close to his mother as a boy, he could read French and German as well as his native… |
