| McGranahan, James |
b nr Adamsville, Penns, USA 1840, d Kinsman, Ohio, USA 1907. Within a limited formal education his musical skills (including a fine tenor voice) soon became apparent. He studied briefly at Wm… |
| Savage, Beverley (Bev) |
b Woodlands (between Cadnam and Lyndhurst), New Forest, Hants 1940. Woodford Sch, Essex; S Wales Bible Coll. After 10 years in heavy engineering on the railways, became pastor of an FIEC church in NW… |
| 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… |
| Garrett, Leslie (Les) Norman |
b Mamatmata, New Zealand 1943 or 1944. Trained at the Word of Faith Bible Sch before pastoring the Christian family Centre at Maddington, W Australia. He became known for his strong advocacy of the AV… |
| Maule, Graham Alexander |
b Glasgow 1958, d 2019. An architectural student in Glasgow who turned to full-time youth work, first at parish level and then with the Iona Community. There he teamed up with John Bell, qv for notes… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Cook, Siân |
Siân Rebecca Cook was born in Pontypool in 1978. She attended Caerleon Comprehensive School. Siân attained a BA Honours in English Literature at York University, followed by a PGCE in English at… |
| 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… |
| Doane, George Washington |
b Trenton, New Jersey, USA 1799, d Burlington, NJ 1859. Union Coll, Schenectady, New York State, where he read Law. After enrolling as one of the General Theological Seminary’s first students, he… |
| Summers, Joseph |
b Frome (or Charlton nr Yeovil?), Som 1843, d Australia 1916. While a choirboy at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, one of his responsibilities was to make copies of the anthems and other service music—a… |
| Nystrom, Martin (Marty) J |
b Seattle, Washington, USA 1956. Raised in the Methodist tradition, he graduated in Music Education from the Oral Roberts Univ. After being responsible for the music ministry of ‘Christ for the… |
| 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… |
| King, Cora |
Ms Cora King was born in Calcutta in India in 1954.
She came to know God personally at age 14 through a school Christian meeting. She has been captivated and kept by His Word ever since through… |
| 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… |
| Williams, Thomas John |
b Ynysmeudwy, Pontardawe (Neath, Swansea Valley), Glam 1869, d Llanelli, Carmarthenshire 1944. An insurance agent by profession, he studied music under David Evans of Cardiff, and was organist at… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Mote, Edward |
b Upper Thames St, City of London 1797, d Horsham, Sussex 1874. He worked in London as a cabinet-maker. Christian faith apparently had no part in his early years, but on hearing the preaching of John… |
| Farrant, Richard |
b c1525–1530, d Windsor or Greenwich 1580. A Gentleman of the Chapel Royal who became Master of the Choristers and one of the organists of St George’s Chapel Windsor from 1564 to 1569. He thus… |
| 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’… |
| 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… |
| Barham-Gould, Arthur Cyril |
b 1891, d Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1953. The hyphenated surname came later; hence some listings still under ‘Gould’. He prepared for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge; and was ordained in 1927 to… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Dawney, Michael William |
b Romford, Essex 1942. Studied at the Univs of Durham, Oxford (Lincoln Coll), Leeds (Inst of Dialect and Folk Life Studies) and Bournemouth, and London International Film Sch: BA, M Litt, M Phil, A… |
| 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… |
| Diephouse, David J |
b 1947. He currently teaches history at Calvin Coll, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, including art, culture and liturgy but specialising in 19th and 20th c Europe. He has made a special study of the rise… |
| Earnshaw, Robert Henry |
b Todmorden, Yorks 1856, d Dumfries, D and Galloway, Scotland 1929. After study in London and gaining a doctorate, he spent most of his life in Lancs where he was organist successively of 3 churches;… |
| Hull, Eleanor Henrietta |
b Cheetham, nr Manchester 1860, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1935. Alexandra Coll, and the Royal Coll of Science, both in Dublin. Her interest in the Celtic tradition led her to become the first London… |
