| Ebeling, Johann Georg |
b Lüneburg, nr Hamburg, N Germany 1637, d Stettin (Szczecin), S Poland 1676. St Johannis’ Gymnasium, Lüneburg; Univ of Helmstedt (Theology). In 1662 he succeeded J Crüger (qv) as Cantor at St… |
| Boberg, Carl Gustaf |
(not in Praise! index), b Monsteras, SE Sweden 1859 (or 1856), d Kasimar, Sweden 1940 He grew up in his coastal birthplace, became a sailor, and was converted at 19. He attended the Bible school at… |
| Farrant, Richard |
b c1525–1530, d Windsor or Greenwich 1580. A Gentleman of the Chapel Royal who became Master of the Choristers and one of the organists of St George’s Chapel Windsor from 1564 to 1569. He thus… |
| Kethe, William |
b ?Scotland c1530, d Dorset 1594. His early years are obscure; he is known to have been active in 1559, and exiled in Frankfurt (1555) and Geneva (1557) during Queen Mary’s reign. He may have worked… |
| Miller, Edward |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1735, d Doncaster, Yorks 1807. Having begun to follow his father in the stone-paving trade, he left home abruptly to study music, playing the flute in Handel’s London orchestra at… |
| Walker, Mary Jane (Deck) |
b Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1816, d Cheltenham, Glos 1878. She grew up in Bury St Edmunds, and has been known mainly for the men in her life, as the younger sister (by some 14 years) of fellow-hymn… |
| White, David Ashley |
b San Antonio, Texas, USA 1944. Del Mar Coll, Corpus Christi, Texas; Univ of Houston, TX, and the Univ of Texas at Austin, TX. He was composer-in-residence at the 1984 Green Lake Festival of Music in… |
| 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… |
| Knecht, Justin Heinrich |
b Biberach an der Riss, nr Würtemburg, Germany 1752, d Biberach 1817. At first self-taught, he later studied music under Krämer and from 1768 to 1771 at the Lutheran Coll at Esslingen am Nechar… |
| Landis, Keith |
b 1922. Ordained in the Episcopal Church in N America, he served for some years from 1959 as rector of Anglican parishes in S California; St Bartholomew’s Pico Rivera, St Luke’s Fontana, and… |
| Harris, Colin |
B East Acton, West London, 1937. 1956-1996 actuary in Government Actuary’s Department. Subsequently pastor of Rudgwick Chapel, West Sussex for 3.5 years. Was a director of Frontiers UK from 1997… |
| Trautwein, Dieter |
b Holzhausen, bei Biedenkopf, Central Germany 1928. d. 2002. Ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran ch, for some years following the 2nd world war he was a director of its youth work. He pioneered… |
| Brown, Arthur Henry |
b Brentwood, Essex 1830, d Brentwood 1926. Starting to play the organ from the age of 10, he was organist of Brentwood Parish Ch from 1842 (aged 12) to 1853, then moving to Romford for 5 years before… |
| Monk, William Henry |
b Hanover Square, London, 1823, d Stoke Newington, London 1889. Organist at St Peter’s Eaton Sq (1841), St Paul’s Portman Sq (1845) and other London churches. From 1847 he was at King’s Coll… |
| Knight, Mollie |
b 1917, d 1993. She was a Primary School Teacher and poet, a member with husband Trevor of Purley Baptist Ch, Surrey. She contributed paraphrases to The Book of Praises (1986), and Psalms for Today… |
| Chandler, John |
b Witley, nr Godalming, Surrey 1806, d Putney, Surrey (SW London) 1876. Corpus Christi Coll Oxford (BA 1827, then a Fellow). Ordained (CofE) 1831, to be curate of Witley before succeeding his father,… |
| Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland |
b Westminster, London 1845, d E Cowes, Isle of Wight 1914. Eton Coll; St Andrews; and Trinity Coll Cambridge. He was Marquis of Lorne and sat as MP for Argyllshire 1868–78; in 1871 he married… |
| Harwood, Basil |
b Woodhouse, West Down, Olveston, Glos 1859, d Kensington, W London 1949. Charterhouse Sch, Trinity Coll Oxford (BMus 1880, MA Classics and Mod Hist 1881, DMus 1896); also studied at the Leipzig… |
| Berry, Gillian Patricia |
b Guildford, Surrey 1957. St John Bosco Sch, Chertsey, and Guildford Tech Coll; Univ Coll of N Wales, Bangor (BMus 1979, studying under Wm Matthias) and Keele Univ (Graduate Diploma in Counselling,… |
| Smith, Isaac |
b c1734, d Walworth, SE London (Surrey), 1805. Possibly a clerk to the Alie Street Meeting House in Goodman’s Fields, E London, where he was reputedly the first dissenting Precentor to receive a… |
| Rolinson, Christopher Philip |
b Walsall, Staffs (now W Midlands) 1958. Queen Mary Grammar Sch, Walsall, where he began serious composing in 1974; Univ of Birmingham (BMus 1979, Cert Ed). He worked with British Youth for Christ,… |
| Hupton, Job |
b Staffordshire 1762, d Claxton, nr Norwich, Norfolk 1849. As a youth with only basic education he worked at the local blacksmith’s forge and was converted through the ministry of John Bradford, one… |
| Savage, Beverley (Bev) |
b Woodlands (between Cadnam and Lyndhurst), New Forest, Hants 1940. Woodford Sch, Essex; S Wales Bible Coll. After 10 years in heavy engineering on the railways, became pastor of an FIEC church in NW… |
| Keswick Hymn Book |
The 1936/8 devotional and missionary hymnal designed for use at the annual summer Keswick Convention, and sometimes adopted for (eg) midweek use by churches sympathetic to its evangelical ethos. It… |
| 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… |
| Barton, Bernard |
b Middlesex 1784, d Woodbridge, Suffolk 1849. (His birthplace has sometimes been given as Carlisle, but that seems to be a mistake.) In any event the family, members of the Society of Friends, moved… |
| Burns, Edward (Eddie) Joseph |
b Nelson, Lancs 1938. Baines’ Grammar Sch, Poulton-le-Fylde nr Blackpool, Lancs; Liverpool Univ (BSc Chemistry, 1958), St Catherine’s Soc Oxford (BA Theology, MA), and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford… |
| 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… |
| Vulpius (Fuchs), Melchior |
b Wasungen, nr Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany c1560–70, d Weimar, Germany 1615. He attended the Latin School in his home town, later Latinising his family surname; then studied music at Speyer and… |
| Crawford, Emily May |
(née Grimes), b Lambeth, Surrey (S London) 1864, d Folkestone, Kent 1927. From 1893 until her marriage in 1904 she was a missionary in Pondoland with the S Africa General Mission. She was a writer in… |
