| Haighton, Michael |
b Nantwich, Ches 1952. Boarding sch until his 17th year, followed by Danebank Further Education Coll in Crewe and then ministerial training at Cliff Coll. Michael is a Free Church minister who has… |
| Smith, Henry |
b USA, 1952. A songwriter in the renewal movement; the namesake of, but not connected with, others including Henry P Smith, 1825-98. Many recordings have been made of his best-known song, featured… |
| Ackley, Bentley DeForest |
b Spring Hill, Pa, USA 1872, d Winona Lake, Indiana, USA 1958. As a boy he learned at least 5 different instruments including brass, woodwind and keyboard, taking a part in his fatherās 14- piece… |
| Bancroft, Charitie Lees |
(aka DE CHENEZ), b Merrion, Co Dublin 1841, d Oakland, California, USA 1923. A clergymanās daughter, nĆ©e Smith, she grew up in her fatherās rectory at Drumragh in Co Tyrone. While in her 20s and… |
| 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 childrenās magazine… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Rowlands, William Penfro |
b Maenclochog, Dyfed (Pembrokeshire), S Wales, 1860 d Swansea, Glamorganshire 1937. Trained as a teacher; conductor of Morriston United Choral Society, one of the best in S Wales. Precentor of… |
| Richards, Noel |
b 1955. Brought up in Llantrisant nr Cardiff, where he attended the Pentecostal church. He became a believer as a child, making a re-commitment at the age of 15. At that time, around 1971, the new… |
| Runyan, William Marion |
b Marion, New York state, USA 1870, d Pittsburg, Kansas, USA 1957. Keen on music from his early years in a Methodist manse, he played the church organ from the age of 12. He was ordained to the… |
| Dougall, Neil |
b Greenock, Renfrewshire 1776, d Greenock 1862. Left fatherless at 4 years old, he left school at 15 to go to sea. As a junior apprentice sailor on the government privateer āBritanniaā he was… |
| Lam, Pandina |
A member of the wider music team for Praise! who worked with Linda Mawson on the contemporary tunes. Pandina lives at Redbridge in the London Borough of Ilford on the edge of Essex, and provided… |
| Macdonald, Mary (MacDougall) |
b Ardtun, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire 1789, d Ardtun 1872. Her whole life was spent on the Scottish W coast island of Mull. As a crofterās wife who saw troubles enough over the years, she would… |
| Finlay, Kenneth George |
b St Marylebone (Middx), London 1882, d Glasgow 1974. Robert Gordonās Coll, Aberdeen; Merchiston Castle Sch, Edinburgh. Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, worked in shipbuilding… |
| Protheroe, Daniel |
b Cwmgiedd, nr Ystradgynlais, Powys (Brecon) 1866, d Chicago, USA 1934. As a youthful singer he won awards at the Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil Eisteddfodau (1880, 1881); at sixteen he conducted the… |
| Smith, Alfred Barnerd (Barney) |
b Wortendyke, NJ, USA 1916. A boy prodigy on the violin, he appeared as a guest soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra, and studied at the Juilliard Sch of Music, the Moody Bible Institute and… |
| Gay, Robert |
b USA. He has been in full-time ministry since c1985. The pastor of High Praise Worship Center, Panama City, Florida, USA, who also has a travelling and teaching ministry āwith an emphasis on… |
| Union Tune Book (1842) |
Originally co-edited by Thomas Clark (1775ā1859), this was āa selection of tunes and chants, suitable for use in congregations and Sunday Schoolsā, published in 1837 in London by The Sunday… |
| Naylor, Edward Woodall |
b Scarborough, Yorks 1867, d Cambridge 1934. The son of a musical family, he learned first from his father and was a chorister at York Minster; organ scholar at Emmanuel Coll Cambridge (BA 1887, MusB… |
| Smart, Henry Thomas |
b St Marylebone, Middx (London) 1813, d Hampstead, Middx 1879. Highgate Sch; gave up training as a solicitor for a largely self-taught musical career notwithstanding his musical relatives (see… |
| Pantry, John |
b Harrow, Middx 1946. After school he trained in recording engineering studios in C London for two and a half years, while developing his own singing and songwriting gifts. So he has been a performer… |
| Webbe, Samuel W |
the elder (snr), b ?London 1740, d London 1816. He had little formal education; apprenticed to a cabinet maker at 11, he left that trade after his 7-year duty, to study languages and become a ms… |
| WĆ¼rtemburg Gesangbuch (1784) |
A volume (with a much longer full name) of 55 texts and an appendix with 14 tunes, now in the Berlin State Library. The book was used in the private chapel of the Duke of WĆ¼rtemburg; its most notable… |
| 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… |
| Este's Psalter (1592) |
More fully, The Whole Booke of Psalmes with their wonted tunes as they are sung in churches, composed in to foure parts...compiled by sundry authors; an Anglo-Genevan collection published by Thomas… |
| Ellor, James |
b Droylsden, Lancs (Gtr Manchester) 1819, d Newburgh, New York, USA 1899. A self-taught musician who worked in a Droylsden hat factory and at the age of 18 was leading the local Wesleyan chapel choir.… |
| 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 musicāa… |
| Sheldon, Robin Treeby |
b Cheltenham, Glos 1932. Teacher of music at Lancing Coll, Sussex; he was appointed Musical Editor of the 1965 Anglican Hymn Book which contains 7 of his tunes and several arrangements. Later he… |
| 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… |
| Davies, Henry Walford |
b Oswestry, Shropshire 1869, d Wrington, Somerset 1941. Chorister at St Georgeās Chapel Windsor, where he was later organist; scholar of RCM; organist in London notably at the Temple Church,… |
