| 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… |
| Sullivan, Arthur Seymour |
b Lambeth, Surrey (S London) 1842, d Westminster, London 1900. First learning music from his father who was a sergeant-bandmaster at Sandhurst, he showed early promise on the piano and with wind… |
| Flook, Harold |
b Willesden, NW London 1909, d S Cornwall 2001. Brought up at Willesden Green Baptist Ch, he attended University College Sch in Hampstead from 1920, and the Univ of London (BSc Chemistry). After… |
| Deck, James George |
b Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1802, d Motueka, Tasman Bay, S Island, New Zealand 1884. He belonged to the Christian (Plymouth) Brethren but joined the Indian service as an army officer; he may have… |
| Cameron, William |
b Lochaber, nr Ballater, Aberdeenshire 1751, d Kirknewton, nr Livingston, W Lothian (Midlothian) 1811. A farmer’s son from the parish of Glenmuick, he graduated from Marischal Coll in the Univ of… |
| Hassler, Hans Johann Leo |
b Nüremburg, Germany 1564, d Frankfurtam- Main, Germany 1612. Taught music by his father Isaak (c1530–91), in 1584 he became one of the first German musicians to travel to Italy, arriving in Venice… |
| 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… |
| Jones, William |
b Lowick, Northants 1726, d Nayland, Suffolk 1800. Charterhouse School (1740–45) and Univ Coll, Oxford, where he studied music privately and was attracted by the writings of John Hutchinson… |
| Monk, Edwin George |
b Frome, Somerset 1819, d Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire 1900. Organist at Midsomer Norton and Frome; then precentor and master of music at St Columba’s Coll Rathfarnham (Stackallan) nr Dublin (1844)… |
| Buck, Percy Carter |
b West Ham, Essex 1871, d Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey 1947. Merchant Taylors’ Sch, GSM, RCM (under CHH Parry), and Organist at Worcester Coll Oxford (1891–94); BA, MA, MusD in 1897. He was… |
| Pestel(l), Thomas |
b ?Leicester 1584/5, d Leicester 1667 (1659?). Queen’s Coll Cambridge; he was then ordained and became Rector of Packington, nr Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics, until handing over to his son, with whom… |
| 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… |
| Macfarren, George Alexander |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1813, d St John’s Wood, London (Middx) 1887. He studied music under his father, the theatrical manager and dance instructor George McF senr, then with Charles Lucas and… |
| Cox, Frances Elizabeth |
b Oxford 1812, d Iffley, nr Oxford 1897. She seems to have spent her life in or around Oxford, but in view of her literary achievements it is tantalising to know so little of her education and… |
| 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… |
| Shaw, Martin Edward Fallas |
b Kennington, Surrey/SW London 1875, d Southwold, Suffolk 1958. Elder brother of G T Shaw qv. He studied at RCM and directed music in theatres (where he belonged to a Bohemian Chelsea set of artists,… |
| Marshall, Wayne |
b Oldham, Lancs 1961. Chetham’s Sch, Manchester; organ scholar at Manchester Cathedral before studying organ and piano at RCM, graduating in 1983 with several prizes for both instruments, and the… |
| Synesius of Cyrene |
b Cyrene, N Africa c365–375, d c414 (given in Praise! as c430). Brought up in a wealthy family as a pagan gentleman, he studied at Alexandria under the neo-Platonist Hypatia, before travelling to… |
| Bonar, Catherine J |
Short Name: Mrs. Catherine J. Bonar
Full Name: Bonar, Catherine J. Mrs., 1821-1884
Birth Year: 1821
Death Year: 1884
Bonar, Jane Catharine, née Lundie, daughter of the Rev. Robert Lundie, some… |
| Earwaker, John Clifford |
b S London 1936. Keble Coll Oxford (1956– 59, BA in Theology, MA) and Lincoln Theol Coll; ordained (CofE) 1961. After a curacy at Eccleshall, Staffs, he was briefly the Succentor at St Mary’s… |
| Haighton, Michael |
b Nantwich, Ches 1952. Boarding sch until his 17th year, followed by Danebank Further Education Coll in Crewe and then ministerial training at Cliff Coll. Michael is a Free Church minister who has… |
| 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… |
| Shrubsole, William |
b Canterbury, Kent 1759, d London 1806. A chorister at Canterbury Cathedral 1775–82, he then became organist of Bangor Cathedral but was dismissed a year later because of his Free Church… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Richards, Noel |
b 1955. Brought up in Llantrisant nr Cardiff, where he attended the Pentecostal church. He became a believer as a child, making a re-commitment at the age of 15. At that time, around 1971, the new… |
| Rhodes, Benjamin |
b Mexborough, S Yorks 1743, d Margate, Kent 1815. Educated partly by his schoolteacher father, he was moved by George Whitefield’s preaching when only 11. By 1766 he had become a Methodist lay… |
| Booth, Gordon Thomas |
b Teddington, Middlesex 1922. d New Fairholme, Oswestry 15th July, 2013. Converted 1935 through Upper Tooting Crusaders, he trained for the Congregational ministry at New Coll, London. Â After serving… |
| 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… |
| Hatch, Edwin |
b Derby 1835, d Headington, Oxford 1889. King Edward’s Sch, Birmingham and Pembroke Coll Oxford (BA 1857). Before going to Oxford, in 1853, he left nonconformity to join the CofE, and afterwards, in… |
