| Taylor, Cyril Vincent |
b Wigan, Lancs 1907, d Petersfield, Hampshire 1991. Magdalen College Sch (boy chorister); Christ Church Coll Oxford (MA); Westcott House Oxford; ordained (CofE) 1931. Curate at Hinckley and Kingswood,… |
| Hughes, Arwel |
b Rhosllanerchrugog nr Wrexham, Denbighs (Clwyd), Wales 1909, d Cardiff 1988. Ruabon Grammar Sch nr Wrexham, N Wales, and RCM, London; after a period as organist at St Philip and St James Ch Oxford he… |
| Goss, John |
b Fareham, Hampshire 1800, d Brixton, S London 1880. Went to live with a London uncle in 1811, becoming a chorister at the Chapel Royal. Organist at Stockwell Chapel, St Luke’s Chelsea, then St… |
| Palmer, Florence Mary Spencer (Peggy) |
b Thornbury, Glos 1900, d Bristol 1987. She attended the Tobias Mathay Piano Sch, London, studying under Vivian Langrish (piano), B J Dale and Sir Ivor Atkins (composition); LRAM. Following other… |
| 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… |
| Lloyd, John Ambrose |
b Mold, Flintshire 1815, d Liverpool 1874. Moved to Liverpool when 15, and the next year composed his first hymn tune there. A commercial traveller (representative) who had music lessons but was… |
| Grigg (aka Crigg), Joseph |
The J Grigg who ‘d.1768’ 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… |
| Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings |
b Bournemouth 1848, d Rustington, Sussex 1918. He began to compose at the age of 8; Twyford Sch nr Winchester (where he met S S Wesley); Eton Coll (where he met Sir Geo Elvey), during which time he… |
| 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… |
| Miles, Gary Lewis |
b Enid, Oklahoma, USA 1947, d USA ?1990s. Univ of Houston, Texas (BA Mus 1970) and in the UK the GSM (post-grad diploma in singing). A member of the Community of Celebration formerly led by Graham and… |
| 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… |
| Smart, George Thomas |
b Soho, London (Middx) 1776, d Bloomsbury, C London (Middx) 1867. Chorister at the Chapel Royal; then at 15 he was appointed organist at St James’s Chapel, Hampstead Rd, London. He played the violin… |
| Porteous, Christopher Selwyn |
b London 1935. Dulwich Coll. Articled clerk in local govt with Malling (Kent) Rural District Council 1954-60; he qualified as a Solicitor in 1960, first with London County Council (till 1962), then… |
| Schicht, Johann Gottfried |
b Reichenau (now Bogatynia), nr Zittau, Saxony (Poland) 1753, d Leipzig, Germany 1823. Brought up by an uncle, he was taught to play the keyboard by Johann Trier, studying the organ and piano but… |
| Clements, Keith Winston |
b Szechwan (Sichuan), W China 1943. King Edward VII Sch Lytham, Lancs, King’s Coll Cambridge (MA 1969), and Regents Park Coll Oxford; ordained to the Baptist ministry 1967. He served first in… |
| Mayor, Roger |
b Cheshire 1951. He studied at Wrekin Coll; Stony Brook Sch New York; Goldsmiths’ Coll and Trent Park (London Univ); and Capernwray Bible Coll in Lancs. An associate of Jubilate Hymns whose tunes… |
| Waring, Anna Laetitia |
b Plas-y-Velin, Neath, Glam (Neath) 1823, d Clifton, Bristol 1910. After an upbringing within the Society of Friends, and for a while attending Bethany Baptist Ch in Cardiff, she joined the CofE at… |
| Walter, William Henry |
b Newark, New Jersey, USA 1825, d New York, 1893. As a boy he played the organ at both the Presbyterian and the Grace Episcopal (Anglican) churches in Newark; and became organist for a time at both.… |
| Hankey, Arabella Catherine (Katherine?) |
b Clapham, Surrey (S London) 1834, d Westminster 1911. Born into an evangelical Anglican banking family active in The Lord’s Day Observance Society and part of what was dubbed ‘the Clapham Sect’… |
| 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… |
| Schutter, Ignace De |
(also SUTTER, as in Praise!), b 1911, d 1988. A Belgian professional church musician and leading organist who also taught church music, Gregorian chant, Hymnology and Folksong studies at the… |
| Roberts, Caradog |
b Rhosllanerchrugog nr Wrexham, Denbighshire, N Wales 1878, d Wrexham 1935. Student-teacher at the elementary school, then an apprentice carpenter, but left to study piano and organ; taught by the… |
| Getty, Keith |
Keith and Kristyn Getty are Irish singer/songwriters and recording artists. They are among the preeminent modern hymn composers of this generation. Keith wrote ‘In Christ alone’ with Stuart… |
| Borthwick, Jane Laurie |
b Edinburgh, Scotland 1813, d Edinburgh 1897. A member of the Free Ch of Scotland and known for her unassuming gentleness, she was encouraged by her father (James, an insurance office manager) to… |
| Lacey Carolyn |
b 1973 in South London. She attended a local comprehensive school and Sixth Form college before moving to study Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol. After graduating in 1995, she… |
| Tuttle, Carl |
b USA 1953. He became a Christian as a teenager c1967; in 1976 he began to meet for informal worship with friends, a fellowship which later became the Vineyard Church at Anaheim under the oversight of… |
| Webb, George James |
b Berwick St John, Wilts (nr Shaftesbury) 1803, d Orange, New Jersey, USA 1887. A farmer’s son intended for the ministry who instead chose music for his profession. Studied at Salisbury Cathedral,… |
| Ninnis, Peter James |
b Croydon, Surrey 1948. He was raised in ‘a chapel-going but not overtly Christian’ family. Trinity Sch of John Whitgift, Croydon; followed by training for the horticultural industry (Advanced Nat… |
| 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… |
| Summers, Joseph |
b Frome (or Charlton nr Yeovil?), Som 1843, d Australia 1916. While a choirboy at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, one of his responsibilities was to make copies of the anthems and other service music—a… |
