| Paget, Catesby |
b ?England 1868, d 1930. Coming from a family including both ecclesiastical and military traditions featured in Burke’s Peerage, this one of several historic Catesby’s belonged to those then known… |
| Crawford, Emily May |
(née Grimes), b Lambeth, Surrey (S London) 1864, d Folkestone, Kent 1927. From 1893 until her marriage in 1904 she was a missionary in Pondoland with the S Africa General Mission. She was a writer in… |
| 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.… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Edwards, Thomas David |
b Pittson, Penns, USA 1875, d Portmadoc, Caernarvonshire 1930. He was born of Welsh parents from Rhymney nr Merthyr Tydfil in Gwent, who had emigrated to N America, but health problems hindered his… |
| Allen, Oswald |
b Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland (Cumbria) 1816, d K Lonsdale 1878. Educated at home in Kirkby Lonsdale and suffering from a spinal disorder from boyhood onwards, he followed his father into the banking… |
| 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… |
| Armes, Philip |
b Norwich, Norfolk 1836, d Durham 1908. A Norwich Cathedral choirboy under Zechariah Buck, he went from there to Rochester Cathedral (1848–50) to study under J L Hopkins. He became organist in… |
| Collignon, Charles |
b 1725, d Cambridge 1785. A physician of French ancestry; Trinity Coll Cambridge, MB 1749, MD 1754. As well as his general medical work he became Prof of Anatomy there in 1753, being described as ‘a… |
| Converse, Charles Crozat |
b Warren, Mass, USA 1832, d Highwood, NJ 1918. Educated at Elmira Academy, he co-edited Sunday School songbooks under the name ‘Karl Reden’, in association with William Bradbury and Ira Sankey.… |
| Coombe, James Anthony (Tony) |
b Brixton, S London 1931. d October 2018. He read Maths at Emmanuel Coll Cambridge (BA/MA) and studied Theology at Tyndale Hall, Bristol (London BD 1960). Ordained (CofE) 1960; after curacies at… |
| Walch, James |
b Egerton, nr Bolton, Gtr Manchester (Lancs) 1837, d ?Llandudno, Conwy (Caernarvonshire) or acc to Routley, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (Lancs), 1901. After studying music with his father and under H… |
| Rees, John Thomas |
b Cwmgiedd. nr Ystradgynlais, Powys (Brecon) 1857, d Bow Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) 1949. He changed his middle name from ‘Morgan’, hoping thus to avoid confusion with a… |
| Howard, Brian Stanley |
b Hendon, Middx 1930. A contributor, by request or otherwise, of 3 tunes to the 1964 Hymns of Faith, all of them printed as alternatives to tunes which are well established but (in 2 cases) widely… |
| Hadden, David John |
b Newcastle upon Tyne 1952. Bedlington Grammar Sch, Northumberland, and W Midlands Coll of Education, Walsall (now part of Birmingham Univ). He taught in middle schools in the NE until 1980, when he… |
| Kauflin, Bob |
Bob is published by Praise! online at numbers 1184 and 1187. He composed number 1282 with Steve Cook and Vikki Cook, number 1134 with Tim Chester and number 1254 with Doug Plank.
He has written… |
| Wilkes, John Bernard |
(b. 1785, d. 1869) was organist at Monkland where A&M’s first editor H W Baker was vicar, in 1861, as acknowledged in the Preface. The Historical Companion to Hymns A&M (1962) says, ‘He was… |
| Whiting, William |
b Kensington, Middx (W London) 1825, d Winchester, Hants 1878. After schooling in Clapham, S London, he trained as a teacher at King Alfred’s Coll, Winchester, 1841–42. He remained at Winchester… |
| Hughes, John (Glandwr) |
b Penbryn nr Cardigan, S Wales 1872, d Swansea, S Wales 1914. John’s parents moved to Swansea when he was 2; when his father died 8 years later he left school, and to support the family began work… |
| Woollett, Barbara |
b Merryoake, Southampton 1937. She left school at 16 to work in a chemist’s shop, 1953–60, and married David W (engineer) in 1960; they have 3 children and now several grandchildren. Her first… |
| Hill, Clement |
A 20th-c composer in the Free Church tradition, one of whose tunes is found in Baptist, Pentecostal and Salvationist books. The 1986 New Redemption Hymnal, however, ascribes this to F C Maker, qv.… |
| Chambers, Brent |
b Napier, New Zealand 1948. Educated at Colonso High Sch, Napier; converted at 18, and studied at the Bible College of New Zealand. He has been an author/composer of Scripture songs from the 1970s,… |
| Witvoet, Bert |
(not in Praise! index), b 1934. Coming from a Dutch family background, he is a Reformed (Calvinist) author living in St Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada. Four of his Psalm versions and one hymn (Text… |
| 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… |
| Wakely, Jenny |
Jenny was born in 1944 in Bexleyheath, Kent and died in 2014.
She attended Prendergast Grammar School in Catford before gaining a BSc and PhD from the University of London.
She worked in medical… |
| Newell, William Reed |
b Savannah, Ohio, USA 1868, d DeLand, Florida, USA 1956. Wooster (Univ) Coll; Princeton Theological Seminary; Oberlin Theol Seminary. He served several pastorates before being appointed asst… |
| 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… |
| Founds, Rick |
A guitarist and worship leader since his teens, he began a full-time ministry in 1990 and has written over 500 ‘praise songs’ in various styles. In 1992 he recorded ‘Carry me away’; today… |
