| 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… |
| 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… |
| Grigg (aka Crigg), Joseph |
The J Grigg who ād.1768ā as given in Praise! was probably Joseph Grigg, b ?1720 or 1728 [Julian favoured an earlier date], d Walthamstow, Essex 1768; but see also J Grigg in Composer index. Born… |
| Weisse |
(aka WEISS, WISS or other spellings), Michael, b Neisse, Silesia c1480, d Landskron (Landstrewn), Bohemia 1534. He was ordained and for some years was a monk at Breslau. He found the writings of… |
| Bernard of Cluny |
(aka B of Morlaix, Morlass, Morval or Murles), b Morlaix, Brittany, France, early 12th c (c1140), d Cluny, Burgundy, France. Born probably of English parents, he became a monk in the community of… |
| 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… |
| Sears, Edmund Hamilton |
b Sandisfield, Mass, USA 1810, d Weston, Mass 1876. Union Coll Schenectady, NY and Harvard Univ Divinity Sch. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister but (not uniquely in that persuasion) claimed to… |
| Carey, Henry [Savile] |
b ?Rothwell, Yorks ?1687 (m1708), d Clerkenwell St James, London (Middx) 1743. A schoolteacher and singer, he was reputedly the son of the Marquis of Halifax (see Grove; though this has also been… |
| 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… |
| Allen, James |
(not in Praise! index), b Gayle, nr Hawes, N Yorks 1734, d Gayle 1804. He was preparing for ordination in the CofE but became for a time a follower of Benjamin Ingham, the Wesleysā former colleague… |
| Hussey, Jennie (Jenny) Evelyn |
b Henniker, NH, USA 1874, d Concord, NH 1958. Began writing verse as a child of about 8, and continued as an adult to write poems, childrenās stories, and over 150 hymns. A member of the Society of… |
| 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… |
| Scheffler's Heilige Seelenlust (1657) |
Johann (or Johannes) Scheffler was b 1624 at Breslau in Silesia (Wroclau, Poland), raised in a noble but persecuted Lutheran family and was educated there and at the Univ of Strassbourg where he… |
| 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… |
| Macfarren, George Alexander |
b Westminster, London (Middx) 1813, d St Johnās Wood, London (Middx) 1887. He studied music under his father, the theatrical manager and dance instructor George McF senr, then with Charles Lucas 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 Thomasā Sch, Leipzig. Univ of Leipzig 1602, where music teaching helped to pay his bills; MA… |
| Webbe, Samuel W |
the elder (snr), b ?London 1740, d London 1816. He had little formal education; apprenticed to a cabinet maker at 11, he left that trade after his 7-year duty, to study languages and become a ms… |
| Gilbert, Walter (William) Bond |
b Exeter, Devon 1829, d Headington, Oxon 1910. He studied music against the wishes of his family and, encouraged by his vicar, was allowed to practise on the church organ at St Thomasās Exeter. From… |
| Columba |
(Col[u]mcille, āthe holy doveā), b Gartan, Co Donegal, Ireland 521, d Iona, Scotland 597. Born into a noble and powerful Irish family of the clan of Ui Neill, he was trained in monasteries in… |
| Moody, David (Dave) |
b Charlotte, N Carolina, USA 1948. One of 3 brothers from a famous evangelical and musical family, who performed on their parentsā TV show in the early 1970s. Later their āAmericana Musicā… |
| Thomas, David John (Afan) |
b Llan Baglan, nr Cwmavon, W Glamorgan 1881, d S Wales 1928. He learned to play the violin from the age of 6, and the piano soon afterwards, under the home tuition of his grandfather David Nicholas.… |
| Simpson, Robert |
b Glasgow 1790, d Greenock, Inverclyde (Renfrewshire) 1832. Brought up to the weaverās trade, his musical ability led to his becoming Precentor leading the Psalm-singing at the Albion St… |
| Crowter, Stephen James |
b Hastings, E Sussex 1968. BSc in Chemistry and Business Studies; he currently runs his own business in Coventry, āSurecar Consultantsā, sourcing cars to order. His first hymns were written in the… |
| 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 1795ā96 and… |
| Mason, Timothy Battle |
b Medfield, Massachusetts, USA 1801, d Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 1861. A younger brother of Lowell Mason (qv) who taught him music. He became organist of Fourth Street Ch, Boston, Mass, until 1833 when… |
| Brethorst, Leona von |
BRETHORST, Leona von, b Smoky Mountains, E Tennessee, USA 1923. One of 11 children raised in poverty, on Sundays in summertime she walked 3 miles to the nearest Full Gospel Ch, the journey being… |
| Rhodes, Benjamin |
b Mexborough, S Yorks 1743, d Margate, Kent 1815. Educated partly by his schoolteacher father, he was moved by George Whitefieldās preaching when only 11. By 1766 he had become a Methodist lay… |
| Tredinnick, Noƫl Harwood |
b Camberwell, London 1949. St Olaveās Grammar Sch (boy chorister at Southwark Cathedral), GSM (GGSM 1970), London Univ Inst of Education (PGCE 1971). Music Director, Langley Park Sch 1971ā75;… |
| Chetham's A Book of Psalmody (1718) |
A composer as well as a compiler, John Chetham or Cheetham (b ?Newton, Ches, or Yorks 1665, d ?Skipton, N Yorks 1746) attended Duckingfield Sch; at some point he was ordained, serving at Skipton as… |
