| Fink, Gottfried Wilhelm |
FINK, Gottfried Wilhelm, b Thuringia (?nr Eisenach), Germany 1783, d Halle, Germany 1846. Coming from a family of organ-builders, he studied music at Naumburg, and theology at Leipzig where he later… |
| Rees, William |
b Llansannan nr Denbigh (Clwyd) 1802, d 1883. He briefly attended the local school while also working on the family farm, largely teaching himself as he grew up from the Welsh literature available to… |
| Calkin, John Baptiste |
b London 1827, d Hornsey, N London 1905. One of a large musical family, he first learned the organ from his father James (1786–1862). He succeeded E G Monk (qv) as organist at St Columba Coll, a… |
| Jenner, Henry Lascelles |
b Chislehurst, Kent 1820, d Preston-next-Wingham, Eastry, nr Sandwich, Kent 1898. Harrow Sch and Trinity Coll Cambridge LLB 1841. Ordained in 1843, he was a curate at Chevening, Kent; St Columb and St… |
| Young, John Freeman |
b Pittston, Maine, USA 1820, d New York 1885. Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, Connecticut. He then joined the Protestant Episcopal (Anglican) Church, training at the Virginia Theological Seminary at… |
| Lockhart, Charles |
b London 1745, d Lambeth, S London (Surrey) 1815. Blind from infancy, in 1772 he became organist of the Lock Hospital Chapel near Hyde Park Corner (aka Carlisle Chapel; see also T Haweis, author, and… |
| Thwaites, Honor Mary (Scott Good) |
b Young, NSW, Australia 1914, d 1993. Geelong CofE Grammar Sch and the Univ of Melbourne. Coming to England in the 1930s, she worked in London with a group from the Society of Friends, assisting… |
| Knight, Mollie |
b 1917, d 1993. She was a Primary School Teacher and poet, a member with husband Trevor of Purley Baptist Ch, Surrey. She contributed paraphrases to The Book of Praises (1986), and Psalms for Today… |
| Alexander, James Waddell |
b Hopewell, Virginia, USA 1804, d Sweetsprings, Va 1849. Princeton Theol Seminary (=Coll of New Jersey, 1820). A man from a Scottish family whose career alternated between pastoral and academic posts,… |
| White, David Ashley |
b San Antonio, Texas, USA 1944. Del Mar Coll, Corpus Christi, Texas; Univ of Houston, TX, and the Univ of Texas at Austin, TX. He was composer-in-residence at the 1984 Green Lake Festival of Music in… |
| Plessis, Malcolm du |
b Durban, S Africa 1956, to an English-speaking mother and an Afrikaans-speaking father. Members of the du Plessis family were prominent in the early 20th-c years of Pentecostalism in the USA, but in… |
| Pulkingham, Betty Jane |
(neé Carr), b Burlington, N Carolina, USA 1928. Univ of N Carolina Women’s Coll (graduated BS in music) and the Eastman Sch of Music; she then taught music theory at the Univ of Texas. With husband… |
| Whitfield, Frederick |
b Threapwood, Shrops (or Ches?) 1829, d Lower Norwood, nr Croydon, Surrey 1904. Trinity Coll Dublin (BA 1859). Following ordination and a curacy at Otley, W Yorks, he served as Vicar of Kirby and… |
| Peacock, David Christopher |
b Bradford, Yorks 1949. Birmingham Univ (BMus and Cert Ed) Member of Jubilate Hymns from 1970s, and of the music group for Hymns for Today’s Church, 1982); JH Secretary from 1992. Composer,… |
| Croly, George |
b Dublin 1780, d Holborn, C London 1860. Trinity Coll Dublin (MA, LL.D); he was ordained and served in Ireland until 1810 when he moved to London to concentrate on literary work, and where he edited… |
| Getty, Kristyn |
Keith and Kristyn Getty are Irish singer/songwriters and recording artists. They are among the preeminent modern hymn composers of this generation. Keith wrote ‘In Christ alone’ with Stuart… |
| 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… |
| Thomas, John |
b Blaenannerch, Cardigans, S Wales 1839, d Llanwrtyd Wells, Breconshire 1921. Known by both his birthplace and his later home of Llanwrtyd. Apprenticed to a shop in Newcastle Emlyn, but returned to… |
| Head, Elizabeth (Bessie) Ann Porter |
b Norfolk 1850, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1936. Also known by her maiden name as Bessie Porter, her various forms of Christian service included the YMCA, as secretary of the Swansea branch. From 1897 to… |
| Hughes, John (Dolgellau) |
b Rhosllannerchrugog nr Wrexham, Wales 1896, d Cardiff 1968. Elder brother of Arwel H (1909–88); after leaving his local school he studied music privately while working in the coal mines of Hafod,… |
| Steffe, William |
mid-19th c. The name traditionally given as that of the author commissioned by a Charlestown ‘fire company’ c1852 to write a shanty; Steffe was organist and choirmaster for the annual camp… |
| Iliff, David |
b 1939. Formerly Director of Music at Emmanuel Church Northwood, N London; then from 1985 for more than 20 years at The British School of Brussels, Belgium, for English-speakers from more than 70… |
| Filitz, Friedrich |
b Arnstadt, Thuringia, central Germany 1804, d Munich (or Bonn?), Germany 1876. After achieving a doctorate in philosophy he lived in Berlin from 1843 to 1847, when he moved to Munich where he… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Hayes, Pamela |
b London 1933, d Roehampton, SW London 2001. Joining the RC Community of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, then at Woldingham, nr Caterham, Surrey, in 1954, she became a fully professed member (RSCJ) in… |
| Shephard, Richard |
b 1949. A boy chorister at Gloucester Cathedral who then studied at Corpus Christi Coll Cambridge. He held various teaching posts in Salisbury while also singing in the cathedral choir there. He was… |
| Hadden, David John |
b Newcastle upon Tyne 1952. Bedlington Grammar Sch, Northumberland, and W Midlands Coll of Education, Walsall (now part of Birmingham Univ). He taught in middle schools in the NE until 1980, when he… |
| Swinstead, Eric Herbert |
(‘Hubert’ in CH 2004), b Hackney, Middx (NE London) 1882, d Essex 1950. He lived at Chingford, Essex, and belonged to the former Brethren Assembly meeting at King’s Head Hall; a youth worker who… |
| Parry, Joseph |
b Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales 1841, d Penarth, Glamorgan 1903. After basic schooling he worked at the coalmining furnaces at the age of 10; when his musical but very poor family emigrated in 1854… |
