| Habershon, Ada |
Ada Habershon was born on January 8, 1861, at St. Marylebone, London, England.
She was the youngest daughter of Doctor Samuel Osborne Habershon and Grace Habershon. She was brought up in a Christian… |
| 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… |
| Pott, Francis |
b Southwark (Surrey/S London) 1832, d Speldhurst nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1909. His first home was near the site of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and of his father’s vinegar factory. Brasenose Coll… |
| Cutts, Peter Warwick |
b Birmingham 1937. King Edward’s Sch, Birmingham; Clare Coll Cambridge; and Mansfield Coll Oxford. He was Tutor and Music Director at Bretton Hall Coll of Education nr Wakefield, Yorks, and shared… |
| Cox, Ben |
Benjamin Norman Cox was born in Tunbridge Wells in 1947. He attended St Marks's C.E. School in Tunbridge Wells and the Judd School, Tonbridge.
Ben worked for the Civil Service for five years before… |
| Campbell, Jane Montgomery |
b Paddington, Middx (C London) 1817, d Bovey Tracey, Devon 1878. After her early years in London, where she taught singing in her father’s parish school of St James, Paddington, she moved to Bovey… |
| Schütz, Johann Jakob |
b Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1640, d Frankfurt 1690. He studied at Tübingen to become a licentiate in civil and canon law, but returned to spend most of the rest of his life as a lawyer at Frankfurt.… |
| Fortunatus, Venantius Honorious Clementianus |
b Treviso district, Venetia, N Italy c535, d Poitiers, France c600–610. Educated at Ravenna, N Italy, where he trained in oratory and poetry In his travels he would sometimes pay for his keep with a… |
| Sayers, James (Jim) David |
b Epsom, Surrey 1966. Ashcombe Sch Dorking, Univ Coll of Wales, Aberystwyth (LL.B) and Edinburgh Theological Seminary (DipTh, M.Th). After two and a half years as assistant to Brian Edwards at Hook… |
| Hughes, John (Pontypridd) |
b Dowlais, Glam 1873, d Llantwit Fadre, Pontypridd, Glam 1932. Alan Luff writes that he was ‘like so many musicians, a product of the South Wales coal fields, with their harsh conditions alleviated… |
| 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… |
| Schlegel, Catharina Amalia Dorothea von |
b Germany 1697, d 17—?. Much about her life is unknown; she lived at Cöthen and appears to have been a significant spiritual leader in days of revival, But while one tradition (as in Julian) says… |
| Rees, John Thomas |
b Cwmgiedd. nr Ystradgynlais, Powys (Brecon) 1857, d Bow Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) 1949. He changed his middle name from ‘Morgan’, hoping thus to avoid confusion with a… |
| Nageli, Johann (or Hans) Georg |
b Wetzikon, nr Zürich, Switzerland 1773, d Wetzikon 1836. Taught first by his minister father, from 1790 he studied further in Zürich, notably the music of J S Bach. He founded a music shop and… |
| Watson, Philip Begbie |
b Cardiff, S Wales 1936. Univ of Wales, Cardiff (BA, ARCM Diploma). For many years he taught music in a variety of secondary schools, including the post of Director of Music Studies at Queen’s… |
| Ahle, Johann Rudolph |
b Mülhausen, Thuringia (W Germany, now Mulhouse in E France) 1625, d Mülhausen 1673. Colleges (Gymnasia) of Mülhausen and Göttingen, and from 1645 the Univ of Erfurt. In 1646 he was appointed… |
| Gladstone, William Henry |
b Hawarden, Flintshire 1840, d Westminster, London 1891. Eton Coll and Christ Ch Oxford; the eldest son of Prime Minister Wm E Gladstone, who followed his father into the House of Commons as MP for 20… |
| Sammis, John Henry |
b Brooklyn, New York, USA 1846, d Los Angeles, Calif 1919. He moved from New York to Logansport, Indiana, when he was 23, to work in a business which he later relinquished to serve with the YMCA.… |
| Burt, Phil |
b England 1957 A co-editor of Junior Praise 1 and 2 (1986, 1992, combined edn 1997); after a career in banking and further work on audio and video recordings for a Christian charity, he spent 2 years… |
| Shirley, William Walter |
b Staunton Har(r)old, nr Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics 1725, d Dublin 1786. Born into the aristocratic nobility, he became ‘the Hon and Rev’ Walter Shirley on his ordination in 1749 in the (Anglican)… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Clarke, Jeremiah |
b c1674 (some give earlier dates), d St Paul’s, London 1707. See also the entry (above) for Jer Clark. Chorister at the Chapel Royal, organist at Winchester College, then from 1695 at St Paul’s… |
| Moody, David (Dave) |
b Charlotte, N Carolina, USA 1948. One of 3 brothers from a famous evangelical and musical family, who performed on their parents’ TV show in the early 1970s. Later their ‘Americana Music’… |
| MacGregor, Duncan |
b Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire 1854, d Inverallochy, Aberdeenshire 1923. The parish sch, Dunrichen, Forfarshire, and the Univ of Aberdeen. He served as a missionary at Drumoak and Kincardine before… |
| Knapp, William |
b Wareham, Dorset 1698 or 1689; d Poole, Dorset 1768. Possibly organist of a church in his home town; but a devastating fire in 1762 destroyed all the parish records. He worked as a glove-maker, and… |
| Hine, Stuart Wesley Keene (or Keane) |
b London 1899, d Somerset 1989. Educated at the Coopers’ Company School at Bow, E London. After a brief wartime spell in the army he was ordained to the Methodist ministry, and with his wife served… |
| Leeson, Jane Elizabeth (Eliza) |
b London 1809, d Leamington, Warwicks 1881 (Julian New Suppt gave 1807–1882). She lived in London and is known for writing several books of hymns, mainly for children. At some point she left the… |
| Mason, Timothy Battle |
b Medfield, Massachusetts, USA 1801, d Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 1861. A younger brother of Lowell Mason (qv) who taught him music. He became organist of Fourth Street Ch, Boston, Mass, until 1833 when… |
| Brown, Dougie |
b Edinburgh, Scotland 1955. A keyboard player, he has worked in the civil service and been Managing Director of a piano-tuning and retail business and an IT consultancy; currently he lives on a farm… |
