| Drese, Adam |
b Thuringia, Germany 1620, d Arnstadt, Germany 1701. He played the viol, and by 1648 he had become a court musician to Duke Wilhelm IV of Weimar, who sent him to study at Warsaw before making him his… |
| Logan, John |
(not in Praise! Index), 1748–88. A Ch of Scotland minister, lecturer in history and philosophy, who (like Wm Cameron, qv) was a member of the General Assembly’s editorial committee for the… |
| Revell, Alison |
(née Huntley, aka Alison Huntley Revell); named in error as the author-composer of no.695, a popular song from 1978 which several books have included since the 1980s. It was printed as ‘Anon’ in… |
| Holmes, Henry James Ernest |
b Burnley, Lancashire 1852, d Burnley 1938. Clitheroe Grammar Sch; trained for the legal profession; solicitor at High Court of Chancery from 1875, and practised in Burnley for over 60 years. Began to… |
| Sibomana, Emanuel T |
b Burundi c1910–15, d 1975. He probably grew up in central Burundi, and lived near Musema where there was a Baptist mission. In the 1930s he became a Christian, and was ordained as a Baptist pastor… |
| King, Robert |
b c1660–1675, d c1725. A recorder player, harpsichordist and composer who worked in London at the King’s Playhouse and St Martin’s in the Fields, he served under 5 monarchs as Court Musician… |
| Westra, Dewey |
b 1899, d 1979. As a schoolteacher in Detroit, USA, of Dutch Reformed ancestry, he keenly felt the loss of the Dutch Psalter (with its Genevan tunes) and supplied several metrical Scripture versions… |
| Lee, James Vernon |
b Hove, Sussex 1892, d Southampton, Hants 1959. Committed to the work of the Boys’ Brigade, he was an officer of its Brighton Battalion from 1910, became its adjutant in 1914, but then joined the… |
| 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… |
| James, Frederic(k) |
b Masborough, Rotherham, Yorks 1858, d Bradford, Yorks 1922. Son of Wesleyan Methodists, he began to deputise for his father on the organ from the age of 11. He also played the violin and double-bass.… |
| Hall, William John |
[not in Praise! index] b London 1793, d Tottenham N London 1861. A CofE incumbent and author now known mainly for jointly editing the 1836 collection popularly known as The Mitre Hymn Book, and for… |
| Bottome, Francis (Frank) |
b Belper, Derby 1823, d Gunnislake, Cornwall, nr Tavistock, Devon 1894. As a young man he sailed to America, remaining there for many years and being ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Ch. In 1872 he… |
| 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… |
| Edwards, Paul Christison |
b Turvey, Bedfordshire 1955. St Paul’s Cathedral Choir Sch, Bedford Modern Sch; ARCO 1980, LRSM 1991, LTCL 1992. He is Organist and choirmaster at All Saints’ Kempston; a teacher, editor, examiner… |
| Booth, Josiah |
b Coventry, Warwicks 1852, d Hornsey, N London (Middx) 1929. Having trained in music he became organist of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Banbury, Oxon. After further study at the RAM he was… |
| Douglas, Charles Winfred |
(not in Composers’ index in Praise!), b Oswego, New York, USA 1867, d Santa Rosa, Cal. 1944. Syracuse Univ; studied in Europe, then church organist in New York prior to ordination in 1893. Ill… |
| Gilbert, Walter (William) Bond |
b Exeter, Devon 1829, d Headington, Oxon 1910. He studied music against the wishes of his family and, encouraged by his vicar, was allowed to practise on the church organ at St Thomas’s Exeter. From… |
| Harvill, Jamie |
b USA. His first ever song was ‘Albatross’; a writer of verse since childhood, he is currently a worship leader on the staff of the World Outreach Ch in Murfreesboro, nr Nashville, Tennessee, and… |
| Chaplin, Sam |
Sam is a choir leader, workshop leader, singer, trumpeter and jazz musician, and directs a choir for people affected by homelessness – the Choir With No Name. James runs song-writing workshops in… |
| Scott-Gatty, Alfred Scott |
b Ecclesfield, nr Sheffield, S Yorks 1847, d St Marylebone, C London 1918. Born into a clerical family as A S Gatty, he coupled his mother’s maiden name (not his wife’s) with his own. His great… |
| Southgate, Thomas Bishop |
b Hornsey, N London (Middx), 1814, d Highgate or Hampstead, N London (Middx) 1868. A chorister at the Chapel Royal, he went on to study the organ under S S Wesley and became organist at Leyton… |
| Ley, Henry George |
b Chagford, Devon 1887, d Feniton, nr Ottery St Mary, Devon 1962. St George’s Sch Windsor (chorister at St George’s Chapel), Uppingham Sch (music Scholar), and RCM. Organist at St Mary’s Farnham… |
| Kempis, Thomas à (Hemerken) |
b Kempen, nr Cologne, c1379, d 1425. Educated at Deventer, Netherlands, at a (public) school of the recently founded Brethren of the Common Life, he entered the community house of the Augustinian… |
| Bridges, Matthew |
b Maldon, Essex 1800, d Sidmouth, Devon 1894. Brought up in the CofE, brother of the evangelical pastor/expositor (and friend of the Moule family) Charles B, he was influenced by the Oxford movement… |
| Malan, Henri Abraham César |
b Geneva, Switzerland 1787, d 1864. He was converted in 1817, studied theology in his home city and was ordained in the Swiss Reformed Ch. But the current ecclesiastical regime in Geneva forbade the… |
| 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… |
| Thomas, David Vaughan |
b Ystalyfera, Powys 1873, d S Africa 1934. He studied music under Dr Joseph Parry after moving to Pontardulais, and then at Llandovery Coll and Exeter Coll Oxford (BA, MA, MusD). He was a… |
| Oakley, Paul |
A songwriter and guitarist whose words and music have appeared in Spring Harvest and similar ‘renewal’ collections from the 1980s onwards. He has a leading role in music and singing at the Church… |
| 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… |
| Thompson, Colin Peter |
b Exeter, Devon 1945. Oxford Univ, MA, PhD. Ordained in the URC, 1971; formerly Chaplain to the Univ of Sussex; currently (2011) Lecturer in Spanish at Oxford. His first published hymn was Christian… |
