| Brown, Dougie |
b Edinburgh, Scotland 1955. A keyboard player, he has worked in the civil service and been Managing Director of a piano-tuning and retail business and an IT consultancy; currently he lives on a farm… |
| Smyttan, George Hunt |
b ?Bombay (Mumbai), India c1822, d Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1870. Corpus Christi Coll Cambridge (BA 1845); ordained in 1848. He was briefly curate of Ellington nr Alnwick, Northumberland; then… |
| Gellert, Christian FĆ¼rchtegott |
b Hainichen, Saxony 1715, d Leipzig 1769. Raised in a rural Lutheran parsonage, he studied theology at Meissen and (from 1734) at Leipzig, and after graduation assisted his father in pastoral work.… |
| Greiter, MatthƤus |
(both names variously spelt), b Aichach, nr Augsburg c1494, d Strasbourg 1550. A monk and singer at Strasbourg Minster until becoming a Protestant, (Lutheran) in 1524. The organist at St Thomasā Ch,… |
| Crowter, Stephen James |
b Hastings, E Sussex 1968. BSc in Chemistry and Business Studies; he currently runs his own business in Coventry, āSurecar Consultantsā, sourcing cars to order. His first hymns were written in the… |
| Daniels, John |
b Cowplain, nr Portsmouth, Hants 1951. After schooling at Churcherās Coll, Petersfield, he worked for 2 engineering companies (ONC, Business Studies) until moving into full time Christian music in… |
| Ellis, Patricia Margaret |
Margaret was born in Wimborne, Dorset in 1956. She attended the Royal College of Music and Goldsmithās College, University of London gaining a Ā GRCM, ARCM(piano), and a Ā PGCE.
Now… |
| 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… |
| Getty, Keith |
Keith and Kristyn Getty are Irish singer/songwriters and recording artists. They are among the preeminent modern hymn composers of this generation. Keith wrote āIn Christ aloneā with Stuart… |
| Harris, William Henry |
b Lambeth, S London (Surrey) 1883, d Petersfield, Hants 1973. A chorister at St Davidās, S Wales, where he was educated; then at RCM studying organ and composition. 9 years as asst organist at… |
| Getty, Kristyn |
Keith and Kristyn Getty are Irish singer/songwriters and recording artists. They are among the preeminent modern hymn composers of this generation. Keith wrote āIn Christ aloneā with Stuart… |
| Weisse's GesangbĆ¼chlein (1531) |
Michael Weisse (see Authorsā index) edited the first German hymn-book of the Bohemian Brethren, Ein Neu Gesenbuchlein. This contained 155 hymns including a dozen translated from Bohemian sources and… |
| 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… |
| Grant, Robert |
b Bengal, India 1779, d Dalpoorie, W India 1838. Coming to England in 1790, after further schooling he entered Magdalene Coll Cambridge (classics), where together with his brother Charles (later… |
| 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… |
| MacGregor, Malcolm |
Birmingham Coll of Art and Design, where he was converted 1971. After working as an Art teacher in special hospitals for handicapped and mentally ill patients in Devon and C Durham, from 1977 to 1993… |
| Light, Alfred Weldon |
b Hants 1873, d Longford, nr Colnbrook, Bucks 1954. Apprenticed to a Basingstoke saddler at 13; in 1888 his work took him to Whitechapel, E London, and in 1895 to Falmouth. In 1898 he was invited by… |
| Scottish Psalter (1615) |
The CL Psalms of David, published by Andro (or Andrew) Hart in Edinburgh (d 1621). This was the most successful and celebrated book from a collector of continental volumes (imprisoned for ātumultā… |
| Macmillan, Alan |
b Nyack, New York State USA 1947. Learned violin from the age of 9; Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan; Boston Univ (BM, 1st prize for composition, later MM); Harvard (PhD). Spent two years in special… |
| Roberts, John ('Henllan') |
b Henllan, nr Newcastle Emlyn, S Wales 1807, d 1876. His early talent in music, partly self-taught was encouraged and taken further by Thomas Daniel. He edited Caniadau y Cessegr (Cysegr) in 1839, a… |
| Macwilliam, Margaret |
An early 20th-c composer; her only known tune in print was published in the University Carol Book: A Collection of Carols from Many Lands, for All Seasons, edited by Erik Routley in 1961. At that time… |
| Davies, Evan Thomas |
b Dowlais, Glamorgan 1878, d Aberdare, Glamorgan 1969. Described by Canon Alan Luff as one of the most important names among Welsh composers of this period (Welsh Hymns and their Tunes, 1990). In the… |
| 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 āa… |
| Naylor, Kenneth Nicholson |
b Sunderland, Co Durham 1931, d Cambridge 1991. Kingswood Sch, Bath, and Magdalene Coll Cambridge (graduating in music). He taught at The Leys Sch, Cambridge (1953ā80), and Christās Hospital… |
| 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… |
| Boyd's Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793) |
A Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes...by the late Henry Boyd, published, clearly posthumously, in Glasgow. This Scottish book has given the world, or preserved for it, one great tune. The only… |
| 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… |
| Evans, T Hopkin |
b Resolven, nr Neath (Glam) 1879, d 1940. Studied under Prof David Evans (1874ā1948 qv) before being appointed organist at London Rd Presbyterian Ch, Neath. He excelled at conducting large choirs,… |
| 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 1990ā97 he was Director of… |
| White, Peter Gilbert |
b Plymouth, Devon 1937. Plymouth Coll; Royal Academy of Music; RSCM; and St Johnās Coll Cambridge (MA, MusB, FRCO (CHM), LCTL, ARAM, ARSCM. Member of the CofE; formerly Master of the Music,… |
