| Atkinson, Frederick Cook |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1841, d E Dereham, Norfolk 1896. He studied under Zechariah Buck at Norwich Cathedral, where he was a chorister and became asst organist and BMus (Cambridge), 1867. He taught music… |
| Weisse |
(aka WEISS, WISS or other spellings), Michael, b Neisse, Silesia c1480, d Landskron (Landstrewn), Bohemia 1534. He was ordained and for some years was a monk at Breslau. He found the writings of… |
| Gabriel, Charles Hutchinson |
b Wilton, Iowa, USA 1856, d Los Angeles, California 1932. He spent his first 17 years working on the family farm, but also writing verse and teaching himself to play the newly-acquired small reed… |
| Pierpoint, Folliott Sandford |
b Spa Villa, Bath (Som) 1835; d Newport, Monmouthshire 1917. Bath Grammar Sch and Queen’s Coll Cambridge (BA in classics 1857, MA). For a short time he was Classics master at Somersetshire Coll, and… |
| Lahee, Henry |
b Chelsea, W London (Middx) 1826, d Croydon, Surrey 1912. Studied music under Sterndale Bennett, John Goss and Cipriani Potter; after organ posts with 3 W London and city churches he settled at Holy… |
| Scholefield, Clement Cotterill |
b (St Clement’s Ch) Edgbaston, nr Birmingham (Warwicks) 1839, d Godalming, Surrey 1904. The youngest son of a Birmingham MP, he attended Pocklington Grammar Sch and St John’s Coll Cambridge; BA,… |
| 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… |
| Owens-Collins, Jamie |
b Castro Valley, California, USA 1955, daughter of the songwriting couple Jimmy and Carol Owens. Surrounded by music from the early days, by her mid-teens she was well known in the USA as a solo… |
| Lowry, Robert |
b Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1826, d Plainfield, New Jersey, USA 1899. After study at Bucknell Univ, he was ordained as a Baptist and served pastorates in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Draper, William Henry |
b Kenilworth, Warwicks 1855; d Clifton, Bristol 1933. Cheltenham Coll and Keble Coll Oxford; ordained (CofE) 1880. Curate and later vicar in Shrewsbury, also serving the parishes of Alfreton, Derbys,… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Hayward, Christopher |
b Canterbury, Kent 1968. The Judd Sch, Tonbridge; Corpus Christi Coll Cambridge (Music and Theology, BA/MA); and Trinity Coll London (LTCL, specialising in oboe). From 1990–97 he was Director of… |
| Hayne, Leighton George |
b Exeter, Devon 1836, d Bradfield, Essex 1883. Eton College and Queen’s Coll Oxford where he became precentor (1860–66) and in 1863 was Coryphaeus (chorus conductor) to the Univ and its public… |
| 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;… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Thompson, Stephen (Steve) |
A professional band director and music producer who has combined with some well-known rock musicians, and since the early 1980s with Graham Kendrick. He has worked in over 60 countries including… |
| Mawby, Colin |
Colin Mawby was born in 1936 and educated at Westminster Cathedral Choir School and the Royal College of Music. He was Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral 1961 - 1977 and Choral Director at… |
| Praetorius, Michael |
Praetorius - Lat form of Schulz/Schultze, b Kreuzburg-ander-Werra, Thuringia, Germany 1571, d Wolfenbuttel, Brunswick, Germany 1621. He attended the Latin Sch of Zerbst, Anhalt; then studied… |
| Crüger, Johann |
b Gross-Briesen (Breesen), nr Guben, Brandenburg, Prussia (Germany) 1598, d Berlin 1662. Schools in Guben, Sorau and Breslau; then the Jesuit Coll, Olmutz; the Poets’ Sch, Regensburg. After travels… |
| Sparrow-Simpson, William John |
(aka Simpson, W J S), b London 1859, d Ilford, Essex 1952. St Paul’s Sch; Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA, 1st in theology, MA). He was ordained in 1882 and served in 3 central London parishes (Albany… |
| Hall, Archibald Darroch (Archie) |
b Glasgow 1927, d 2017. Educated in Glasgow to Scottish ‘Highers’; he was a member of the open Christian Brethren who until retirement was a manager in the Dept of Health and Social Security. He… |
| Prichard, Rowland Hugh |
b Graienyn (or Craienyn) nr Bala, Merionethshire, N Wales 1811, d Holywell, Flintshire, N Wales 1887. (His name is often given as ‘Pritchard’ but the shorter spelling now seems better… |
| Everest, Charles William (?Henry) |
b East Windsor, Connecticut, USA 1814, d Waterbury, Conn 1877. Trinity Coll, Hartford, Conn (MA). He published Visions of Death, and Other Poems, which included the hymn-text for which he is best… |
| Cousins, Marion |
Born at Felixstowe, Suffolk, into a musical family, she grew up in the Salvation Army, playing the piano from an early age and with formal lessons from 7 onwards. From the mid-1970s she has played the… |
| Lane, Andrew |
b 1959, Cambridge) is a professional writer who works in broadcasting. He leads the worship in an FIEC church. Apart from his main work, he has published Just for Me, a collection of new worship… |
| The Christmas Box, 1825 |
(not in Praise! index). The first complete book published by the Religious Tract Society, decades before the Victorian (and post-Victorian) flood of carol-books, was this seasonal assortment including… |
