| 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… |
| Bridge, Basil Ernest |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1927. City of Norwich School and Cheshunt Coll, Cambridge (BA/MA). In 1951 he was ordained to the pastorate at Knowle (Warwicks), then Abbot’s Rd Congregational (now URC)… |
| Drese, Adam |
b Thuringia, Germany 1620, d Arnstadt, Germany 1701. He played the viol, and by 1648 he had become a court musician to Duke Wilhelm IV of Weimar, who sent him to study at Warsaw before making him his… |
| David Lyon |
David is a songwriter, musician and producer from the West Coast of Scotland. He has released six solo albums and played on many other projects over three decades.
Having eventually overcome a… |
| Garrett, Leslie (Les) Norman |
b Mamatmata, New Zealand 1943 or 1944. Trained at the Word of Faith Bible Sch before pastoring the Christian family Centre at Maddington, W Australia. He became known for his strong advocacy of the AV… |
| Tang, Agnes |
b Malaysia 1945. She lived for some years in New Cross, SE London; worked in the Law Courts as a court reporter, and as a speech-to-text reporter for deaf people. She has studied at RSCM and is a… |
| Guillebaud, Rosemary |
b 1915, d Cambridge 2002. Born into a missionary family, she first went to live in Africa at the age of 10, when her skill in translation first became apparent. She read Modern Langs at Cambridge Univ… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Ewing, Alexander |
b Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1830, d Taunton, Som 1895. Marischal Coll, Aberdeen, where he began a legal training which he never completed. He travelled to Heidelberg to study music, became… |
| 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… |
| Croly, George |
b Dublin 1780, d Holborn, C London 1860. Trinity Coll Dublin (MA, LL.D); he was ordained and served in Ireland until 1810 when he moved to London to concentrate on literary work, and where he edited… |
| Foundling Hospital Collection |
London, 1796 and 1801. Originally Psalms, Hymns and Anthems of the Foundling Hospital, followed by other edns. Musically this London orphanage, famous for its organists and its singing children,… |
| Lockhart, Charles |
b London 1745, d Lambeth, S London (Surrey) 1815. Blind from infancy, in 1772 he became organist of the Lock Hospital Chapel near Hyde Park Corner (aka Carlisle Chapel; see also T Haweis, author, and… |
| James, Frederic(k) |
b Masborough, Rotherham, Yorks 1858, d Bradford, Yorks 1922. Son of Wesleyan Methodists, he began to deputise for his father on the organ from the age of 11. He also played the violin and double-bass.… |
| Thomas, John |
b Blaenannerch, Cardigans, S Wales 1839, d Llanwrtyd Wells, Breconshire 1921. Known by both his birthplace and his later home of Llanwrtyd. Apprenticed to a shop in Newcastle Emlyn, but returned to… |
| Jackson, Francis Alan |
b Malton, N Yorks 1917. York Minster Choir Sch and chorister 1929–33; Univ of Durham (studying under Sir Edward Bairstow, who proved a formative and lasting influence). After serving as Organist of… |
| 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.… |
| 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… |
| Littledale, Richard Frederick |
b Dublin 1833, d Bloomsbury, C London 1890. Bective House Seminary and Trinity Coll, Dublin (BA 1855, LL.D 1862); Oxford DCL, 1862. Ordained in 1856, he served contrasting curacies at Thorpe Hamlet nr… |
| 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… |
| Jenkins, David |
b Trecastle (Trecastell), nr Llandovery, Powys (Brecons), Wales 1848, d Aberystwyth, Cardigans, Wales 1915. Losing his father when he was very young, he had some basic education before he became… |
| Cunningham, Thomas Lister (Tom) |
b Edinburgh 1946. Edinburgh Univ (BSc, Maths). About 20 of his songs are published, in the UK and USA; two tunes and one arrangement feature in Carols for Today, 1986; one tune in The Carol Book (RSCM… |
| Price, Thomas (Tom) |
b Rhymney, Monmouthshire, S Wales 1857, d Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, S Wales 1925. From the age of 10 he worked in the S Wales coal-mines but gradually taught himself music, partly by joining local… |
| Dawney, Michael William |
b Romford, Essex 1942. Studied at the Univs of Durham, Oxford (Lincoln Coll), Leeds (Inst of Dialect and Folk Life Studies) and Bournemouth, and London International Film Sch: BA, M Litt, M Phil, A… |
| Bancroft, Henry Hugh |
b Cleethorpes, Lincs 1904, d Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1988. After studying at Grimsby (FRCO 1925) he emigrated to Canada in 1929 as Organist and Choirmaster of St Matthew’s Anglican Ch in Winnipeg;… |
| Polman, Bert |
b Rozenburg, The Netherlands 1945. After his first 2 years spent in Indonesia, he returned to Holland and in 1955 emigrated with his family to Canada. He studied at Dordt Coll, Sioux Center, Iowa (BA… |
| Kitson, Charles Herbert |
b Leyburn, N Yorks 1874, d Kensington, W London 1944. Ripon Sch, Yorks, and Selwyn Coll Cambridge (organ scholar, divinity prize, MA). He studied music further at Oxford, and not pursuing his original… |
| Marshall, Jane |
b Dallas, Texas, USA 1924. Southern Methodist Univ (BMus, MMus); she later joined the School of Music faculty there, 1968–75. From then until 1986 she taught at the Perkins School of Theology, where… |
| Allen, Hugh Percy |
b Reading 1869, d Oxford 1946. Organist of St Saviour’s Reading at the age of 11, and at 18 asst organist at Chichester Cathedral and asst music master at Wellington Coll. Studied at Oxford,… |
