| Ockenden, Lawrence Gordon |
A piano pupil at the age of 9, and choirboy at Hatch End, Middx; Merchant Taylors’ School (learning the organ from age 13) 1958–64, then RAM until 1967 (LRAM, ARCO, GRSM). Teacher training at… |
| Hutcheson, Charles |
b Glasgow 1792, d Glasgow 1860. A merchant and amateur musician, he belonged to St George’s Tron Church, in the heart of the city where he remained for all his life. In 1832 he published Christian… |
| 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… |
| Paris, Twila |
b ?USA 1958; a singer from early years, encouraged by her pastor-father she recorded a song album at the age of 4. When aged 7, her family moved to Springdale, Arkansas; she found the move difficult… |
| Dougall, Neil |
b Greenock, Renfrewshire 1776, d Greenock 1862. Left fatherless at 4 years old, he left school at 15 to go to sea. As a junior apprentice sailor on the government privateer ‘Britannia’ he was… |
| Mote, Edward |
b Upper Thames St, City of London 1797, d Horsham, Sussex 1874. He worked in London as a cabinet-maker. Christian faith apparently had no part in his early years, but on hearing the preaching of John… |
| 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… |
| Bancroft, Charitie Lees |
(aka DE CHENEZ), b Merrion, Co Dublin 1841, d Oakland, California, USA 1923. A clergyman’s daughter, née Smith, she grew up in her father’s rectory at Drumragh in Co Tyrone. While in her 20s and… |
| Brent Smith, Alexander |
b Brookthorpe, nr Gloucester 1889, d Gloucester 1950. An articled asst to Sir Ivor Atkins at Worcester Cathedral for 2 years, followed by an appointment as Director of Music at Lancing College from… |
| John of Damascus |
b Damascus (Syria) c675, d c749. Taught by the elder Cosmas, a captive Sicilian monk; John’s father adopted another Cosmas (‘the melodist’, also a hymnwriter), who with John enrolled at the… |
| 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,… |
| Rothe, Johann Andreas |
b Lissa, Silesia 1688, d Thommendorf, nr Bunzlau 1758. Univ of Leipzig (Theology); licensed as a Lutheran preacher in Görlitz. His first work after graduation was as a private tutor at Leube, but on… |
| 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… |
| Roberts, John Henry |
b ?Mynydd Llandegai, Pen-rallt, Y Gefnan, Caernarvons 1848, d Liverpool 1924. As a boy he worked in Penrhyn slate quarry, Bethesda, and was organist at 14 in a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. A quarry… |
| Hensley, Lewis |
b Bloomsbury, Middx (C London) 1824, d Great Ryburgh, nr Fakenham, Norfolk 1905. Trinity Coll Cambridge (Prizeman, BA, MA); Fellow and Asst Tutor at the College, ordained in 1851. After a curacy at… |
| Bakewell, John |
b Brailsford, nr Derby 1721, d Lewisham, Kent (SE London) 1819. He was converted at the age of 18 through reading the classic Human Nature in its Fourfold State (1720, 1729) by the Scots Calvinist… |
| 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… |
| 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 Wesleys’ former colleague… |
| Francis, Benjamin |
b nr Pen-y-Gelli, nr Newcastle Emlyn, Dyfed (Carmarthens) 1734, d Horsley, nr Stroud, Glos 1799. He grew up in Swansea and was baptized there at the age of 15. At 19 he began to preach and went on to… |
| Edwards, Howard M III (Rusty) |
b Dixon, Illinois, USA 1955. Interlochen Arts Academy and Univ of Nebraska. Teacher at St Boniface, Elgin, Nebraska. Luther Northwestern Seminary (MDiv); Graduate Theological Foundation, Notre Dame,… |
| Columba |
(Col[u]mcille, ‘the holy dove’), 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… |
| Elvey, George Job |
b Canterbury, Kent 1816; d Windlesham, Surrey 1893. Raised as a Presbyterian, he became a Canterbury Cathedral choirboy and from there went in 1831 with his brother Stephen to New College Oxford (BMus… |
| Doerksen, Brian |
b British Columbia, Canada 1965. Mennonite Educational Inst, Abbotsford, BC; graduated 1983. Born of Ukrainian parents who belonged to the Mennonite Ch at Abbotsford, Brian ‘inherited a love of… |
| Naylor, Edward Woodall |
b Scarborough, Yorks 1867, d Cambridge 1934. The son of a musical family, he learned first from his father and was a chorister at York Minster; organ scholar at Emmanuel Coll Cambridge (BA 1887, MusB… |
| 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… |
| Byrne, Mary Elizabeth |
(Maire ni Bhroin), b Dublin 1880, d Dublin 1931. The Dominican Convent Sch, Eccles St, Dublin, and the Univ of Ireland (MA, 1st cl); she worked as an examiner and researcher in Irish for the Board of… |
| Garrard, Stuart |
(stage name, ‘Stu G’), b in the Dales, 1963. After Westbourne High School he spent some 7 years with Eastern Electricity, while also playing guitar and singing in bands for local churches and… |
| MacGregor, Malcolm |
Birmingham Coll of Art and Design, where he was converted 1971. After working as an Art teacher in special hospitals for handicapped and mentally ill patients in Devon and C Durham, from 1977 to 1993… |
| Parker, Handel |
b Oxenhope, nr Haworth, W Yorks 1854, d Shipley, Yorks 1928. Born into an extensive musical family, of parents who named their children after composers including Haydn and Jubal. He played the flute… |
| Converse, Charles Crozat |
b Warren, Mass, USA 1832, d Highwood, NJ 1918. Educated at Elmira Academy, he co-edited Sunday School songbooks under the name ‘Karl Reden’, in association with William Bradbury and Ira Sankey.… |
