| Duffield, George (junr) |
b Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA 1818, d Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA 1888. Born into a Presbyterian family, he graduated from Yale Univ and Union Theological Seminary prior to ordination in 1840. His… |
| Ackley, Bentley DeForest |
b Spring Hill, Pa, USA 1872, d Winona Lake, Indiana, USA 1958. As a boy he learned at least 5 different instruments including brass, woodwind and keyboard, taking a part in his father’s 14- piece… |
| Athanasius |
b Alexandria, Egypt c296, d Alexandria c373. After education probably in the city’s catechetical sch, he became sec to the bishop, attending him at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and succeeding him 3… |
| 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… |
| Croft, William |
b Nether Eatington (Ettington), Warwicks 1678, d Bath, Somerset 1727. Chapel Royal chorister under John Blow; probably organist at St Anne’s Soho from 1700, then again at the Chapel Royal, at first… |
| Wakely, Jenny |
Jenny was born in 1944 in Bexleyheath, Kent and died in 2014.
She attended Prendergast Grammar School in Catford before gaining a BSc and PhD from the University of London.
She worked in medical… |
| Benton, John Edward |
b Isleworth, Middlesex 1949. Southall Grammar Sch and Univ of Sussex (PhD). A journalist and minister of the gospel in the Grace Baptist tradition, he produced with Bill Bygroves in 1979 a collection,… |
| Taylor, Geoff |
Mr Geoff Taylor was born in Newcastle on Tyne on 20th April 1955. He attended Heaton Grammar School, Doncaster College of Education and the University or York gaining a Certificate of Education and an… |
| Coates, Eric |
b Hucknall, Notts 1886, d Chichester, Sussex 1957. RAM from 1906; a viola player (and violinist) who became one of the finest composers of songs, light orchestral and film music of the mid-20th c, and… |
| 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… |
| Rinkart, Martin |
b Eilenburg on the Mulde, Saxony 1586, d Eilenburg 1649. The Latin School at Eilenburg; chorister at St Thomas’ Sch, Leipzig. Univ of Leipzig 1602, where music teaching helped to pay his bills; MA… |
| Union Tune Book (1842) |
Originally co-edited by Thomas Clark (1775–1859), this was ‘a selection of tunes and chants, suitable for use in congregations and Sunday Schools’, published in 1837 in London by The Sunday… |
| Bowater, Chris |
b Birmingham 1947. Waverley Grammar Sch, Birmingham and RCM, London (BMus 1968, GRSM, LRAM, ARCM, DipEd, PGCE 1969). He became a Christian through ‘Youth for Christ’ in Birmingham, 1955, and… |
| Spafford, Horatio Gates |
b North Troy, NY, USA 1828, d Jerusalem 1888. After growing up in New York he moved to Chicago where he established a successful law practice. He belonged to the Presbyterian Ch, supported the early… |
| Iona Community |
The present community, based on the Inner Hebridean island where Columba (qv) landed in 563 and which has had a mixed history ever since, was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, a Ch of Scotland… |
| Theodulph of Orleans |
b ?Spain c750, Angers, NW France 821. As a relatively young man he was abbot of a monastery in Florence. Favoured by Charlemagne (‘Charles the Great’), he was brought to France to be Abbot of… |
| Hewitt, Eliza Edmunds |
b Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1851, d Philadelphia 1920. Raised in a family where the Bible was read daily and gospel songs were sung and learnt, she attended the Girls’ Normal Sch in… |
| Brooks, Gerard |
b Abingdon, Oxon 1956. John Mason High Sch; Lincoln Coll Oxford (MA, Music); Strasbourg Conservatoire (organ studies); and Homerton Coll Cambridge (PGCE). A travelling scholarship furthered his… |
| Reed, Edith Margaret Gellibrand |
b Islington, Middx (N London) 1885, d Barnet, Herts 1933. St Leonard’s Sch; and GSM. Her life’s work lay in music for and with children, aiming to see and hear songs and hymns through a child’s… |
| Edwards, Brian Herbert |
(not in Praise! index), b Barnstaple, N Devon 1941. Borden Grammar Sch, Sittingbourne, Kent and London Bible Coll (BD 1963). Beginning his ministry in 1963 as asst at Lansdowne Evangelical Ch, SE… |
| Evans, David J |
b Dartford, Kent 1957; except for two years in Maryland, USA, he lived most of his early life in Winchester. He graduated in Social Science (BSc) from the Univ of Southampton, a city where he… |
| Grigg, Jacob |
b Launceston, Cornwall, 1769, d ?? A fellow-student with John Rippon (qv) at the Bristol Baptist College, he emigrated to N America via a pioneer missionary effort in Sierra Leone in 1795–96 and… |
| Pollock, Thomas Benson |
b Strathallan, Isle of Man 1836, d Bordesley, Warwicks 1896. Trinity Coll Dublin, first studying medicine but switching to theology; BA 1859. Ordained in 1861, he served as a curate in Leek, Staffs,… |
| Evans, Jonathan |
b Coventry, Warwicks (W Midlands) 1748/9, d Foleshill, nr Coventry (W Midlands) 1809. His first job was in a ribbon factory; cf the entries for both Gadsby and Tersteegen. At the age of about 30 he… |
| Richards, John ('Isalaw') |
b Bangor, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire) 1843, d Bangor 1901. Son of a sea captain, he was educated mainly in Birmingham and made music his career. As well as several hymn tunes, he composed anthems, part… |
| Redhead, Richard |
b Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex 1820, d Hellingly, Hailsham, Sussex 1901. At 9 years old he became a boy chorister at Magdalen Coll Oxford; while still only 19 he was invited by Frederick Oakeley (qv)… |
| 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.… |
| 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… |
| Oakeley, Herbert Stanley |
b Ealing, W London (Middx) 1830, d Eastbourne, Sussex 1903. His musical gifts were evident from the age of 4 and he began to compose at 9. From Rugby Sch and Christ Church Oxford (BA, MA); he went on… |
| Gauntlett, Henry John |
b Wellington, Shropshire 1805, d Kensington, W London (Middx) 1876. Organist at the age of 9 at Olney, Bucks, where his father was vicar, a distant successor to John Newton qv. He was choirmaster… |
