| Doane, William Howard |
b Preston, Connecticut, USA 1832, d S Orange, New Jersey 1915. Educated at the Woodstock Academy, conducting the school choir at 14. He came to faith in Christ at the Baptist Ch, Norwich, Conn; in… |
| 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… |
| Cousins, Marion |
Born at Felixstowe, Suffolk, into a musical family, she grew up in the Salvation Army, playing the piano from an early age and with formal lessons from 7 onwards. From the mid-1970s she has played the… |
| Grant, Robert |
b Bengal, India 1779, d Dalpoorie, W India 1838. Coming to England in 1790, after further schooling he entered Magdalene Coll Cambridge (classics), where together with his brother Charles (later… |
| Earwaker, John Clifford |
b S London 1936. Keble Coll Oxford (1956– 59, BA in Theology, MA) and Lincoln Theol Coll; ordained (CofE) 1961. After a curacy at Eccleshall, Staffs, he was briefly the Succentor at St Mary’s… |
| 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… |
| Steffe, William |
mid-19th c. The name traditionally given as that of the author commissioned by a Charlestown ‘fire company’ c1852 to write a shanty; Steffe was organist and choirmaster for the annual camp… |
| Brooks, Reginald Thomas ('Peter') |
b Wandsworth, S London, 1918, d Harrow, Middx 1985. Clapham Central Sch, the London Sch of Economics, and Mansfield Coll and St Catherine’s Soc (now College), Oxford; BA, MA. Ordained to the… |
| Thrupp, Joseph Francis |
b Mayfair C London 1827, d Surbiton, Surrey 1867. Winchester Coll and Trinity Coll Cambridge; ordained 1852, and soon afterwards appointed as Vicar of Barrington, nr Great Shelford, Cambs, where he… |
| Procter, Adelaide Ann |
b Bedford Sq, Bloomsbury, central London 1825, d St Marylebone, London 1864. She grew up in a literary household and circle of friends; her first poems were published (under the name ‘Mary… |
| Dale, Benjamin James |
b Highbury, Middlesex (N London) 1885, d Kensington, W London 1943. Composed an overture Horatius, publicly performed in London, when only 14. He studied at the RAM from 1902 to 1905, where he wrote a… |
| Stewart, Alexander |
b Glasgow 1843, d Prestwick, nr Kilmarnock (S Ayrshire) 1923. Research into the life of this evangelical Scottish Victorian author, known almost entirely for one distinctive hymn, have so far yielded… |
| Thwaites, Honor Mary (Scott Good) |
b Young, NSW, Australia 1914, d 1993. Geelong CofE Grammar Sch and the Univ of Melbourne. Coming to England in the 1930s, she worked in London with a group from the Society of Friends, assisting… |
| Sadler, Gary |
b USA. A songwriter in the renewal movement who has also composed for woodwind instruments. His best known song, written with Jamie Harvill qv, ‘opened the doors’ to a wider musical career;… |
| Swinstead, Eric Herbert |
(‘Hubert’ in CH 2004), b Hackney, Middx (NE London) 1882, d Essex 1950. He lived at Chingford, Essex, and belonged to the former Brethren Assembly meeting at King’s Head Hall; a youth worker who… |
| Cox, Frances Elizabeth |
b Oxford 1812, d Iffley, nr Oxford 1897. She seems to have spent her life in or around Oxford, but in view of her literary achievements it is tantalising to know so little of her education and… |
| Parry, Joseph |
b Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales 1841, d Penarth, Glamorgan 1903. After basic schooling he worked at the coalmining furnaces at the age of 10; when his musical but very poor family emigrated in 1854… |
| Logan, John |
(not in Praise! Index), 1748–88. A Ch of Scotland minister, lecturer in history and philosophy, who (like Wm Cameron, qv) was a member of the General Assembly’s editorial committee for the… |
| 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… |
| Moore's (The) Psalm-Singer's Pocket Companion |
c1756. A Scottish collection, the title of which continues, ‘...containing great variety of the best English Psalm-tunes, suited to the different metres in the Scotch version of the Psalms of David,… |
| Horatius Bonar, Matt Merker and Bob Kauflin |
Horatius Bonar wrote the original words to 'All praise to him who built the hills.'
Matt and Bob have written the music and additional words to the song, 'All praise to him, the God of light'
which… |
| Featherston(e), William Ralph (or Rolf) |
b Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1846, d Montreal 1873. He grew up as a Wesleyan Methodist in Montreal. His family’s church later became St James’s Methodist Ch, then St James’s United Ch; WRF lived… |
| Hayes, Pamela |
b London 1933, d Roehampton, SW London 2001. Joining the RC Community of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, then at Woldingham, nr Caterham, Surrey, in 1954, she became a fully professed member (RSCJ) in… |
| Fawcett, John (C) |
b Wennington, nr Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancs 1789, d Bolton, Lancs 1867. A shoemaker by trade, he was musically self-taught and eventually able to leave his business to become a psalmodist and professional… |
| Morison, John |
b Cairnie, nr Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1750, d Canisbay, nr John O’Groats, Caithness (Highland) 1798. King’s Coll, Univ of Aberdeen (MA 1771). After teaching in a number of Caithness schools he… |
| Iverson, Daniel |
b Brunswick, Georgia, USA 1890, d Asheville, N Carolina, USA 1977. Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), the Univ of Georgia, Columbia Theol Seminary and the Univ of S Carolina. He served as a Presbyterian… |
| 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… |
| Peacock, David Christopher |
b Bradford, Yorks 1949. Birmingham Univ (BMus and Cert Ed) Member of Jubilate Hymns from 1970s, and of the music group for Hymns for Today’s Church, 1982); JH Secretary from 1992. Composer,… |
| Budry, Edmond Louis |
b Vevey, Switzerland 1854; d Vevey 1932. Educated at Lausanne, he became a licentiate in theology and philosophy in the Swiss Evangelical Free Ch (Église Évangélique libre du Canton de Vaud), a… |
| Gordon, Andrew |
b St Andrews, Fife, Scotland 1969. Auchmuty High Sch, Glenrothes, Fife; Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama 1987– 91; GSM 1991–92. B Ed (Music), RSAMD, LGSM (Jazz and Studio Music). He has… |
