| Hensley, Lewis |
b Bloomsbury, Middx (C London) 1824, d Great Ryburgh, nr Fakenham, Norfolk 1905. Trinity Coll Cambridge (Prizeman, BA, MA); Fellow and Asst Tutor at the College, ordained in 1851. After a curacy at… |
| Barthélémon, François Hippolyte |
b Bordeaux, France 1741, d Southwark, S London (Surrey) 1808. Eldest of the 16 children born to a French government official (and wig-maker) and an Irish lady, and a talented violinist from his youth,… |
| Lockhart, Charles |
b London 1745, d Lambeth, S London (Surrey) 1815. Blind from infancy, in 1772 he became organist of the Lock Hospital Chapel near Hyde Park Corner (aka Carlisle Chapel; see also T Haweis, author, and… |
| Phillips, Ann |
b Ramsgate, Kent 1930. Clarendon House Grammar Sch for Girls, Ramsgate, and St Hilda’s Coll Oxford. She worked in publishing and became chief sub-editor for Cambridge Univ Press until her… |
| Jolly, Hilary Jean |
b Watford, Herts 1945. Watford Girls’ Grammar Sch and Ecole d’Etudes Bilingues du Lycée Français de Londres. Following a ‘Damascus Rd’ conversion to Christ, she became a member of St Andrew… |
| Howells, Herbert Norman |
b Lydney, Glos 1892, d Putney, London 1983. Lydney Grammar Sch and Gloucester Cathedral Sch; articled to the Gloucester organist Sir Herbert Brewer 1905–11, he won an RCM scholarship in 1912 (the… |
| Tuttiett, Lawrence |
b Colyton, nr Seaton, S Devon 1825, d St Andrews, Fifeshire 1897. Christ’s Hospital (public sch), W Sussex, and King’s Coll London; declining to follow his father by training for the medical… |
| Voss, Hazel |
b (H Butler) at Lyndhurst, Hants 1951. Brockenhurst Grammar Sch and Weymouth Teacher Training Coll, Dorset; qualified as a teacher 1972. She taught reception and infant classes, then private all-age… |
| Runyan, William Marion |
b Marion, New York state, USA 1870, d Pittsburg, Kansas, USA 1957. Keen on music from his early years in a Methodist manse, he played the church organ from the age of 12. He was ordained to the… |
| Preston, David George |
b London 1939. d 2020. Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School, Kennington, London; Keble College Oxford (MA Mod Langs.) He worked as a French Teacher, including 11 years at Ahmadu Bello Univ, Nigeria,… |
| 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,… |
| Brent Smith, Alexander |
b Brookthorpe, nr Gloucester 1889, d Gloucester 1950. An articled asst to Sir Ivor Atkins at Worcester Cathedral for 2 years, followed by an appointment as Director of Music at Lancing College from… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Paris, Twila |
b ?USA 1958; a singer from early years, encouraged by her pastor-father she recorded a song album at the age of 4. When aged 7, her family moved to Springdale, Arkansas; she found the move difficult… |
| Stainer, John |
b Southwark, Surrey (London) 1840, d Verona, Italy 1901. His musical education began at home, as his father taught him on a small chamber-organ; losing the sight of his left eye when he was 5, he was… |
| Drese, Adam |
b Thuringia, Germany 1620, d Arnstadt, Germany 1701. He played the viol, and by 1648 he had become a court musician to Duke Wilhelm IV of Weimar, who sent him to study at Warsaw before making him his… |
| Head, Elizabeth (Bessie) Ann Porter |
b Norfolk 1850, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1936. Also known by her maiden name as Bessie Porter, her various forms of Christian service included the YMCA, as secretary of the Swansea branch. From 1897 to… |
| Dougall, Neil |
b Greenock, Renfrewshire 1776, d Greenock 1862. Left fatherless at 4 years old, he left school at 15 to go to sea. As a junior apprentice sailor on the government privateer ‘Britannia’ he was… |
| 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… |
| Bilbrough, Dave |
b London 1955. He grew up in Romford, Essex, where he still lives. At the age of 14 he accepted an invitation to attend church. He valued the questions posed by some of Paul Simon’s songs, and even… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Allen, Hugh Percy |
b Reading 1869, d Oxford 1946. Organist of St Saviour’s Reading at the age of 11, and at 18 asst organist at Chichester Cathedral and asst music master at Wellington Coll. Studied at Oxford,… |
| Warren, Norman Leonard |
b Sydenham, S London 1934. Dulwich College, Corpus Christi Coll (Music and Mod Langs), and Ridley Hall, Cambridge; MA. Ordained (CofE) 1960; after a curacy at Bedworth, Warwicks, he served as… |
| 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… |
| Purcell, Henry |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1659, d Westminster 1695. One of a musical family active through 4 generations; the most notable being Henry who at the age of 6 joined the choir of the Chapel Royal… |
| 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… |
| Hughes, John (Dolgellau) |
b Rhosllannerchrugog nr Wrexham, Wales 1896, d Cardiff 1968. Elder brother of Arwel H (1909–88); after leaving his local school he studied music privately while working in the coal mines of Hafod,… |
| Westbrook, Francis Brotherton |
b Thornton Heath, Surrey 1903, d Harpenden, Herts 1975. Whitgift (now Trinity) Middle Sch, Croydon; Didsbury Theol Coll Manchester; ordained 1930 (Wesleyan Methodist). Distinguished pianist; BA… |
