| 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… |
| Greenwell, Dorothy ('Dora') |
b Greenwell Ford, Lanchester, nr Consett, Co Durham 1821, d Clifton, Bristol 1882. Sometimes thought to have been a Quaker because of her later sympathies, she came from a strongly clerical Anglican… |
| Baker, Geoff |
A songwriter whose work (including words, tunes and arrangements) began to appear, in the Spring Harvest books and elsewhere, in the 1990s. Living in Leicester, he works with Cross Rhythms, founded in… |
| Malan, Henri Abraham César |
b Geneva, Switzerland 1787, d 1864. He was converted in 1817, studied theology in his home city and was ordained in the Swiss Reformed Ch. But the current ecclesiastical regime in Geneva forbade the… |
| Payne, Ernest Alexander |
b Hackney, NE London 1902, d Camden, N London 1980. King’s Coll, London; Regents Park Coll, London; Mansfield Coll Oxford. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, he served at Bugbrooke Baptist Ch nr… |
| 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… |
| Wallace, John Aikman |
b Edinburgh 1802, d Trinity, nr Brechin, Midlothian (Angus) 1870. An ordained minister in the Ch of Scotland, serving at Hawick (Border), who left at the Disruption of 1843 for the Free Church along… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Runyan, William Marion |
b Marion, New York state, USA 1870, d Pittsburg, Kansas, USA 1957. Keen on music from his early years in a Methodist manse, he played the church organ from the age of 12. He was ordained to the… |
| Synesius of Cyrene |
b Cyrene, N Africa c365–375, d c414 (given in Praise! as c430). Brought up in a wealthy family as a pagan gentleman, he studied at Alexandria under the neo-Platonist Hypatia, before travelling to… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Colquhoun, Frances Sara (Fuller-Maitland) |
b Shinfield Park, nr Reading, Berks 1809, d Edinburgh 1877. She wrote at least 3 hymns before the age of 18, including her adaptation of the hymn by H K White (qv) with which she became associated.… |
| 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 1795–96 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.… |
| 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… |
| Protheroe, Daniel |
b Cwmgiedd, nr Ystradgynlais, Powys (Brecon) 1866, d Chicago, USA 1934. As a youthful singer he won awards at the Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil Eisteddfodau (1880, 1881); at sixteen he conducted the… |
| Harvill, Jamie |
b USA. His first ever song was ‘Albatross’; a writer of verse since childhood, he is currently a worship leader on the staff of the World Outreach Ch in Murfreesboro, nr Nashville, Tennessee, and… |
| 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… |
| 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, children’s stories, and over 150 hymns. A member of the Society of… |
| 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… |
| Denny, Edward |
b Dublin (not Tralee), Ireland 1796, d Brompton, W London 1889. A member of the Christian (Plymouth) Brethren, he lived at Tralee Castle. While reputedly a shy man, he was known as a considerate… |
| Misselbrook, Peter Mark |
b Epping, Essex 1951. Wellingborough Grammar Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford 1970–73 (MA Physics and Philosophy); Trinity Coll Bristol 1974–77 (London BD) and a member of Pendennis Evangelical Ch,… |
| Duckworth, Francis |
b Rimington, nr Clitheroe, Lancs 1862, d Colne, Lancs 1941. He grew up next door to the Wesleyan Chapel, the musical and social centre of the village where (in the absence of an organ) 4 of the… |
| Ellis, Patricia Margaret |
Margaret was born in Wimborne, Dorset in 1956. She attended the Royal College of Music and Goldsmith’s College, University of London gaining a GRCM, ARCM(piano), and a PGCE.
Now… |
| Boberg, Carl Gustaf |
(not in Praise! index), b Monsteras, SE Sweden 1859 (or 1856), d Kasimar, Sweden 1940 He grew up in his coastal birthplace, became a sailor, and was converted at 19. He attended the Bible school at… |
| Milgrove, Benjamin |
b Bath, Som 1731, d Bath 1810. A seller of toys and fancy goods at Bond St, Bath; his profession was given as a ‘toyman’. By the mid-18th c he was also Precentor and Organist at Bath, at the… |
| Oakeley, Frederick |
b Shrewsbury, Shrops 1802, d Islington, Middx (N London) 1880. After a private education he studied at Christ Ch Oxford (BA 1824); ordained in 1826; Fellow and Chaplain of Balliol 1827. At Oxford he… |
| Helen Lemmel, George Romanacce, Nic Trout, Kevin Winebarger and Nathan Stiff |
Helen wrote the words for 'O soul, are you weary and troubled'.
Additional words and a chorus have been added by George Romanacce, Nic Trout, Kevin Winebarger and Nathan Stiff.
This has been… |
