| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 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… |
| Walker, Mary Jane (Deck) |
b Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1816, d Cheltenham, Glos 1878. She grew up in Bury St Edmunds, and has been known mainly for the men in her life, as the younger sister (by some 14 years) of fellow-hymn… |
| Bower, John Dykes |
b Gloucester 1905, d Farnborough, Kent 1981. A great-grandson of J B Dykes (qv); Cheltenham Coll and Corpus Christi Coll Cambridge (Organ Scholar, 1922; Fellow 1933–37); he held a number of posts as… |
| Landis, Keith |
b 1922. Ordained in the Episcopal Church in N America, he served for some years from 1959 as rector of Anglican parishes in S California; St Bartholomew’s Pico Rivera, St Luke’s Fontana, and… |
| Ellmore, Jackie |
b Cheltenham, Gloucs 1957. Edgehill Coll, Bideford, Devon; then moved to London to study piano performing at the RCM (ARCM, Teachers; PGCE and Dip in Music Education, Trinity). She taught class music… |
| Winslow, John Copley (Jack) |
b Hanworth, Middx 1882, d Godalming, Surrey 1974. Eton Coll; Balliol Coll Oxford (BA/MA, classics). He trained at Wells Theol Coll, and after ordination (in 1906, CofE) and a curacy at Wimbledon, he… |
| 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… |
| Magdalen Chapel Hymns (c1760) |
In about 1760, Thos Call compiled or issued The Tunes & Hymns as they are used at the Magdalen Chapel, Properly set for Organ, Harpsichord and Guitar (!); the chapel belonged to the Magdalen Hospital… |
| Hughes, Arwel |
b Rhosllanerchrugog nr Wrexham, Denbighs (Clwyd), Wales 1909, d Cardiff 1988. Ruabon Grammar Sch nr Wrexham, N Wales, and RCM, London; after a period as organist at St Philip and St James Ch Oxford he… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Holmes, Henry James Ernest |
b Burnley, Lancashire 1852, d Burnley 1938. Clitheroe Grammar Sch; trained for the legal profession; solicitor at High Court of Chancery from 1875, and practised in Burnley for over 60 years. Began to… |
| Allchin, William Thomas Howell |
b Oxford 1843, d Oxford 1883. Oxford BMus 1969; Organist of St John’s Coll Oxford 1875–83, and Conductor of the Oxford Choral Soc; Prof of Music and RAM examiner 1881. He composed a cantata and… |
| Swift, James Frederick |
b Manchester 1847, d Liscard, nr Wallasey, Merseyside (Ches) 1931. Living in Liverpool for over 40 years from boyhood onwards, he was organist in at least 3 of the city’s churches, starting at… |
| Stanton, Walter Kendall |
b Dauntsey, nr Chippenham, Wilts 1891, d Sedgehill, Shaftesbury, Dorset 1978. Salisbury Choristers’ Sch, Lancing Coll, and Merton Coll Oxford (organ scholar, 1909–13); MA, MusB 1915, MusD 1935. He… |
| Miller, Emily F Huntingdon |
b Brooklyn, Connecticut, USA 1833, d Northfield, Minnesota, USA 1913. Originally a Methodist, she attended Oberlin Coll Ohio, marrying Prof John E Miller in 1860. She co-edited a children’s magazine… |
| Tuttle, Carl |
b USA 1953. He became a Christian as a teenager c1967; in 1976 he began to meet for informal worship with friends, a fellowship which later became the Vineyard Church at Anaheim under the oversight of… |
| 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.… |
| Vincent, Charles John |
b Houghton-le-Spring, Co Durham 1852, d Monte Carlo 1934. Son of the organist-composer of the same name. A Durham Cathedral chorister, at 16 he became organist at Monkwearmouth Parish Church. He… |
| Monk, Edwin George |
b Frome, Somerset 1819, d Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire 1900. Organist at Midsomer Norton and Frome; then precentor and master of music at St Columba’s Coll Rathfarnham (Stackallan) nr Dublin (1844)… |
| 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… |
| Revell, Alison |
(née Huntley, aka Alison Huntley Revell); named in error as the author-composer of no.695, a popular song from 1978 which several books have included since the 1980s. It was printed as ‘Anon’ in… |
| Reed, Edith Margaret Gellibrand |
b Islington, Middx (N London) 1885, d Barnet, Herts 1933. St Leonard’s Sch; and GSM. Her life’s work lay in music for and with children, aiming to see and hear songs and hymns through a child’s… |
| Monk, William Henry |
b Hanover Square, London, 1823, d Stoke Newington, London 1889. Organist at St Peter’s Eaton Sq (1841), St Paul’s Portman Sq (1845) and other London churches. From 1847 he was at King’s Coll… |
| Wainwright, John |
b Stockport, Gtr Manchester (Ches) 1723, d Stockport 1768. A joiner’s son who moved into Manchester aged 23. He was a ‘singing man’ at the city’s Collegiate Church (see notes to 352 in EP1)… |
| Otte, Helen |
b ?USA 1931. An American writer who has revised older Psalm versions and made new paraphrases; 14 of these and 2 hymns, all from the 1980s, feature in the Psalter Hymnal of the Christian Reformed… |
| Zundel, John |
b Hochdorf, Germany 1815, d Cannstadt, Germany 1882. Studied violin and organ in Germany; in 1840 became organist of St Anne’s Lutheran Church at St Petersburg, Russia, where he was also bandmaster… |
