| Hayne, Leighton George |
b Exeter, Devon 1836, d Bradfield, Essex 1883. Eton College and Queenâs Coll Oxford where he became precentor (1860â66) and in 1863 was Coryphaeus (chorus conductor) to the Univ and its public… |
| Klusmeier, Ronald |
b Canada 1946. A composer/musician with 16 tunes, one arrangement and a Psalm text included in Voices United, the 1996 Hymn and Worship Book of the United Ch of Canada. The tunes were composed between… |
| Fedak, Alfred V |
b Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA 1953. Degrees from Hope College and Montclair State Univ. Worked as organist and choir director in Michigan and New Jersey (Pompton Reformed) churches; currently (1999)… |
| Edwards, Paul Christison |
b Turvey, Bedfordshire 1955. St Paulâs Cathedral Choir Sch, Bedford Modern Sch; ARCO 1980, LRSM 1991, LTCL 1992. He is Organist and choirmaster at All Saintsâ Kempston; a teacher, editor, examiner… |
| Pierpoint, Folliott Sandford |
b Spa Villa, Bath (Som) 1835; d Newport, Monmouthshire 1917. Bath Grammar Sch and Queenâs Coll Cambridge (BA in classics 1857, MA). For a short time he was Classics master at Somersetshire Coll, and… |
| Hine, Stuart Wesley Keene (or Keane) |
b London 1899, d Somerset 1989. Educated at the Coopersâ Company School at Bow, E London. After a brief wartime spell in the army he was ordained to the Methodist ministry, and with his wife served… |
| 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… |
| Thrupp, Joseph Francis |
b Mayfair C London 1827, d Surbiton, Surrey 1867. Winchester Coll and Trinity Coll Cambridge; ordained 1852, and soon afterwards appointed as Vicar of Barrington, nr Great Shelford, Cambs, where he… |
| Matthews, Timothy Richard |
b Colmworth Rectory, Beds 1826, d Tetney, Louth, Lincs 1910. Bedford Grammar Sch and Gonville and Caius Coll Cambridge; studied music under the composer G J Elvey qv, ordained in the CofE. He was a… |
| 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 Queenâs… |
| Jenner, Alison |
Mrs Alison Jenner was born in Chelmsford in 1948. She attended Buttsbury County Primary School in Billericay and two small private schools in Essex and Hampshire.
Alison gained an N.N.E.B. in… |
| Piae Cantiones (1582) |
PIAE CANTIONES (1582). More fully, Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scholasticae... (etc). âA very rare and precious bookâ (Routley), âfull of exquisite 16th-c tunesâ (Dearmer), which came… |
| Iverson, Daniel |
b Brunswick, Georgia, USA 1890, d Asheville, N Carolina, USA 1977. Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), the Univ of Georgia, Columbia Theol Seminary and the Univ of S Carolina. He served as a Presbyterian… |
| Knapp, William |
b Wareham, Dorset 1698 or 1689; d Poole, Dorset 1768. Possibly organist of a church in his home town; but a devastating fire in 1762 destroyed all the parish records. He worked as a glove-maker, and… |
| Prout, Ebenezer |
b Oundle, Northants 1835, d Dalston, NE London 1909. Born in a Congregational Manse but not encouraged to pursue music seriously; after some school-teaching he took the London Univ BA in 1854). He had… |
| Wilson, David Gordon |
b Greenwich, SE London 1940. Colfeâs Grammar Sch, Lewisham; Manchester Univ (BSc Botany); Clare Coll and Ridley Hall Cambridge (MA Theol). Ordained (CofE) 1965, serving curacies in London, then… |
| 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… |
| Rees, Bryn Austin |
b Chelsea, W London 1911, d Epping, Essex 1983. His family moved to the manse at Neath, S Wales, in 1912, so he attended Neath Grammar Sch; then trained for the Congregational ministry at Hackney and… |
| Harwood, Basil |
b Woodhouse, West Down, Olveston, Glos 1859, d Kensington, W London 1949. Charterhouse Sch, Trinity Coll Oxford (BMus 1880, MA Classics and Mod Hist 1881, DMus 1896); also studied at the Leipzig… |
| Tans'ur (Tanzer), William |
b Dunchurch, nr Rugby, Warwicks c1700, d St Neots, Hunts 1783. The son of a village labourer, he travelled widely (for his day) from Surrey to Lincolnshire to play the organ and teach Psalmody, until… |
| 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… |
| Pulkingham, Betty Jane |
(neĂ© Carr), b Burlington, N Carolina, USA 1928. Univ of N Carolina Womenâs Coll (graduated BS in music) and the Eastman Sch of Music; she then taught music theory at the Univ of Texas. With husband… |
| Horner, Egbert Forster |
b Greenwich, SE London (Kent) 1864, d Paddington, W London 1928. A pupil of the organist, composer and author Sir J Frederick Bridge, he was organist at St Alphegeâs Southwark (1884â 86), St… |
| Thiman, Eric Harding |
originally Thimann, b Ashford, Kent 1900, d Camden, London 1975. Partly self-taught but with early lessons in piano, organ and violin, he attended Caterham Sch and GSM; FRCO 1921, DMus (London 1927,… |
| Bernard of Cluny |
(aka B of Morlaix, Morlass, Morval or Murles), b Morlaix, Brittany, France, early 12th c (c1140), d Cluny, Burgundy, France. Born probably of English parents, he became a monk in the community of… |
| Finlay, Kenneth George |
b St Marylebone (Middx), London 1882, d Glasgow 1974. Robert Gordonâs Coll, Aberdeen; Merchiston Castle Sch, Edinburgh. Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, worked in shipbuilding… |
| Pollock, Thomas Benson |
b Strathallan, Isle of Man 1836, d Bordesley, Warwicks 1896. Trinity Coll Dublin, first studying medicine but switching to theology; BA 1859. Ordained in 1861, he served as a curate in Leek, Staffs,… |
| Stocker, John |
(not in Praise! index). A resident for at least some time of Honiton, Devon, he contributed 9 hymn texts to the Gospel Magazine in 1776â77. In 1861 he was identified by the hymnologist Daniel… |
| Baker, Henry |
b Nuneham Courtenay, nr Abingdon, Oxon 1835, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1910. Winchester Coll and Exeter Coll Oxford, where he was already composing music; worked as a civil engineer and was employed for… |
| Gurney, John Hampden |
GURNEY, John Hampden, b Serjeantsâ Inn, off Fleet St, London 1802, d St Marylebone, Middlesex (London) 1862. Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA 1824); abandoned law studies in order to be ordained (CofE)… |
