| 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… |
| Towner, Daniel Brink |
b Rome, Pennsylvania, USA 1850, d Longwood, Missouri, USA 1919. His father Prof J G Towner provided his early musical education. He became music director at Methodist Episcopal churches in New York,… |
| Wilson, David Gordon |
b Greenwich, SE London 1940. Colfe’s Grammar Sch, Lewisham; Manchester Univ (BSc Botany); Clare Coll and Ridley Hall Cambridge (MA Theol). Ordained (CofE) 1965, serving curacies in London, then… |
| Diephouse, David J |
b 1947. He currently teaches history at Calvin Coll, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, including art, culture and liturgy but specialising in 19th and 20th c Europe. He has made a special study of the rise… |
| Misselbrook, Peter Mark |
b Epping, Essex 1951. Wellingborough Grammar Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford 1970–73 (MA Physics and Philosophy); Trinity Coll Bristol 1974–77 (London BD) and a member of Pendennis Evangelical Ch,… |
| Teschner, Melchior |
b Fraustadt, Silesia (now Wschowa, SW Poland) 1584, d Oberprietschen, Posen (now Przyczyna Go¯ rna, Pozna´n, W Poland) 1635. After studying theology, philosophy and music at Frankfurt-an-der-Oder,… |
| 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… |
| Griffiths, Thomas Vernon |
b West Kirby, Cheshire 1894, d Christchurch, NZ, 1985 [sic]. Norwich Grammar Sch, Pembroke Coll Cambridge (MA, MusB), where he was organist and choirmaster 1919–22. After teaching music at two… |
| Hoyle, Richard Birch |
b Cloughfold, Lancs 1875, d Wimbledon, Surrey 1939. Born into a Methodist family, he became a Baptist, training at Regents Park Coll, London. He served in the ministry from 1900 to 1926, concluding at… |
| Davies, Alan H |
20th-c composer of 3 unnamed tunes for canticles in Psalm Praise (1973); the opening item to a metrical Venite), another to a Te Deum version, and the one featured here, originally set to a newer… |
| 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… |
| Stephenson, T B |
Possibly to be identified with Dr TBS, who in London from 1898 ran what would later be termed a young offenders institution, and then a branch of the National Children’s’ Home for destitute… |
| Edwards, William |
b Pembrokeshire, SW Wales 1848, d 1929. Pontypool Baptist Coll, Wales; Regents Pk Baptist Coll. He became a tutor at the Baptist Coll in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, and later returned to Pontypool… |
| Bortnianski (Bortnyansky), Dmitri Stepanovich (Dmitro Stepanovych) |
b Gloukoff (Hlukiv), Ukraine 1751, d St Petersburg, Russia 1825. A boy with a fine voice, probably first attending Hlukiv Choir Sch, whom Catherine the Great arranged to be trained by Galuppi at St… |
| Gay, Annabeth McClelland |
b Ottawa, Illinois, USA 1925. Born as Annabeth McClelland, daughter of a pastor, she trained at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, specialising in organ, before marrying William Gay, a Congregational… |
| 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… |
| Orchard, Stephen Charles |
b Derby 1942. Trinity Coll Cambridge (MA, PhD). Ordained in 1968 as a Congregational (later, URC) minister, he pastored churches at Abercarn (Caerphilly, nr Cwmbran), Sutton (Surrey, cf notes for Fred… |
| Baker, Frederick George |
b Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1840 (not Newport, ’39), d Shanklin, IoW 1919. A cathedral choirboy at Winchester, he then ran a small watchmaking and jewellery business on the island (cf J Antes). He was… |
| Peace, Albert Lister |
b Huddersfield, Yorks 1844, d Blundellsands, Liverpool 1912. A self-taught musician who at the age of 9 was organist of Holmfirth Parish Ch a few miles S of Huddersfield. His playing was praised by S… |
| Mackrell, Paul |
b Totton, nr Southampton, Hants 1951. Totton Grammar Sch and Liverpool Univ. He works as a civil servant in the Dept for Work and Pensions (social security); and as a p/t church minister, at Hampstead… |
| Wilkinson, Kate (Katie) Barclay |
b Timperley, nr Altrincham, Ches (Gtr Manchester) 1859, d Kensington, Middx (W London) 1928. She lived and worked in W London, belonged to the CofE, and among her parish church’s activities she led… |
| Gurney, John Hampden |
GURNEY, John Hampden, b Serjeants’ 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)… |
| Allchin, William Thomas Howell |
b Oxford 1843, d Oxford 1883. Oxford BMus 1969; Organist of St John’s Coll Oxford 1875–83, and Conductor of the Oxford Choral Soc; Prof of Music and RAM examiner 1881. He composed a cantata and… |
| Ellmore, Jackie |
b Cheltenham, Gloucs 1957. Edgehill Coll, Bideford, Devon; then moved to London to study piano performing at the RCM (ARCM, Teachers; PGCE and Dip in Music Education, Trinity). She taught class music… |
| Crowter, Stephen James |
b Hastings, E Sussex 1968. BSc in Chemistry and Business Studies; he currently runs his own business in Coventry, ‘Surecar Consultants’, sourcing cars to order. His first hymns were written in the… |
| Brethorst, Leona von |
BRETHORST, Leona von, b Smoky Mountains, E Tennessee, USA 1923. One of 11 children raised in poverty, on Sundays in summertime she walked 3 miles to the nearest Full Gospel Ch, the journey being… |
| Jeboult, Harold Arthur |
b Taunton, Som 1871, d Taunton 1925. Born into a musical family with a long Taunton pedigree, he qualified as FRCO, ARCM, and LMus. From 1888 to 1897 he was organist of Holy Trinity Ch Taunton,… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Kethe, William |
b ?Scotland c1530, d Dorset 1594. His early years are obscure; he is known to have been active in 1559, and exiled in Frankfurt (1555) and Geneva (1557) during Queen Mary’s reign. He may have worked… |
