| 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 fatherās parish school of St James, Paddington, she moved to Bovey… |
| 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 1795ā96 and… |
| Antes, John (Johann) |
b Frederick, nr Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA March 1739/40, d Bristol, England 1811. Son of German Moravian emigrants who settled in America where he grew up and showed early musical promise. He was… |
| Darwall, John |
b Haughton, nr Stafford, Staffs 1731, d Walsall, Staffs 1789. Born into a clerical family; entered Manchester Grammar Sch as a boarder at 16 and Brasenose Coll Oxford at 20; BA 1756, later BD.… |
| Teschner, Melchior |
b Fraustadt, Silesia (now Wschowa, SW Poland) 1584, d Oberprietschen, Posen (now Przyczyna GoĀÆ rna, PoznaĀ“n, W Poland) 1635. After studying theology, philosophy and music at Frankfurt-an-der-Oder,… |
| Gabriel, Charles Hutchinson |
b Wilton, Iowa, USA 1856, d Los Angeles, California 1932. He spent his first 17 years working on the family farm, but also writing verse and teaching himself to play the newly-acquired small reed… |
| Towner, Daniel Brink |
b Rome, Pennsylvania, USA 1850, d Longwood, Missouri, USA 1919. His father Prof J G Towner provided his early musical education. He became music director at Methodist Episcopal churches in New York,… |
| Clements, Keith Winston |
b Szechwan (Sichuan), W China 1943. King Edward VII Sch Lytham, Lancs, Kingās Coll Cambridge (MA 1969), and Regents Park Coll Oxford; ordained to the Baptist ministry 1967. He served first in… |
| Hutcheson, Charles |
b Glasgow 1792, d Glasgow 1860. A merchant and amateur musician, he belonged to St Georgeās Tron Church, in the heart of the city where he remained for all his life. In 1832 he published Christian… |
| Harvill, Jamie |
b USA. His first ever song was āAlbatrossā; 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… |
| Misselbrook, Peter Mark |
b Epping, Essex 1951. Wellingborough Grammar Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford 1970ā73 (MA Physics and Philosophy); Trinity Coll Bristol 1974ā77 (London BD) and a member of Pendennis Evangelical Ch,… |
| The Psalter Hymnal, 1987 |
A collection from the Christian Reformed Ch in N America, edited by a group of 12 chaired by Emily R Brink, āincluding the psalms, Bible songs, hymns, ecumenical creeds, doctrinal standards and… |
| Franck, Johann |
b Guben, Brandenburg 1618, d Guben 1677. After his lawyer father died, the infant Johann was cared for and adopted by a relative. His schooling was partly in Guben, followed by study at the Univ of… |
| Collection of Hymns of the United Brethren, 1825 |
A North American publication represented now only by part of one hymn. It was published in the same year as the short text by Montgomery to which the American words have often been added without… |
| Rhodes, Benjamin |
b Mexborough, S Yorks 1743, d Margate, Kent 1815. Educated partly by his schoolteacher father, he was moved by George Whitefieldās preaching when only 11. By 1766 he had become a Methodist lay… |
| Woollett, Barbara |
b Merryoake, Southampton 1937. She left school at 16 to work in a chemistās shop, 1953ā60, and married David W (engineer) in 1960; they have 3 children and now several grandchildren. Her first… |
| 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… |
| Oakeley, Herbert Stanley |
b Ealing, W London (Middx) 1830, d Eastbourne, Sussex 1903. His musical gifts were evident from the age of 4 and he began to compose at 9. From Rugby Sch and Christ Church Oxford (BA, MA); he went on… |
| Reid, William Watkins Jnr |
b New York City, USA 1923; d 2007. Oberlin Coll and Yale Divinity Sch. From 1943 to 1945 he worked with the Medical Corps in the US Army and spent 8 months as a prisoner of war. Ordained to the… |
| CrĆ¼ger, Johann |
b Gross-Briesen (Breesen), nr Guben, Brandenburg, Prussia (Germany) 1598, d Berlin 1662. Schools in Guben, Sorau and Breslau; then the Jesuit Coll, Olmutz; the Poetsā Sch, Regensburg. After travels… |
| Gaither, Gloria (Sickal) |
b Battle Creek, Michigan, USA 1942; graduated from Anderson Coll in French, English and Sociology. She met Bill (see next entry) while teaching in high school, and their joint songwriting virtually… |
| Frey, Marvin V |
b Sherwood, Oregon, USA 1918, d N Tarrytown, New York, USA 1992. He was an ordained American evangelist and songwriter who wrote over 2000 āsongs of faithā. One short but notable and Scriptural… |
| Geistliche Lieder (1535) |
GEISTLICHE LIEDER (1535). One of many hymn-collections compiled by Martin Luther (qv), and the 2nd of two published by Joseph Klug of Wittenberg, the 1st (with a similar name) being that of 1529.… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Booth, Josiah |
b Coventry, Warwicks 1852, d Hornsey, N London (Middx) 1929. Having trained in music he became organist of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Banbury, Oxon. After further study at the RAM he was… |
| Walter, William Henry |
b Newark, New Jersey, USA 1825, d New York, 1893. As a boy he played the organ at both the Presbyterian and the Grace Episcopal (Anglican) churches in Newark; and became organist for a time at both.… |
| Chetham's A Book of Psalmody (1718) |
A composer as well as a compiler, John Chetham or Cheetham (b ?Newton, Ches, or Yorks 1665, d ?Skipton, N Yorks 1746) attended Duckingfield Sch; at some point he was ordained, serving at Skipton as… |
| 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 āinherited a love of… |
| Flook, Harold |
b Willesden, NW London 1909, d S Cornwall 2001. Brought up at Willesden Green Baptist Ch, he attended University College Sch in Hampstead from 1920, and the Univ of London (BSc Chemistry). After… |
