| Keith and Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townend |
See separate entries for Keith and Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townend for details |
| 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… |
| Day, Victor Edward |
b Ipswich, Suffolk 1943. Northgate Grammar Sch Ipswich and Ipswich Sch of Art. FPC3; then followed his main career as financial adviser, CIS Ltd. He is a member of Mt Zion (Grace) Baptist Ch, Ipswich.… |
| Steve Cook, Vikki Cook & Bob Kauflin |
Steve, Vikki and Bob are published by Praise! online at number 1282
See individual entries for Steve, Vikki and Bob for more details. |
| 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… |
| Sutton, Wes |
After working for some years with Youth for Christ, in 1989 he became Senior Pastor of the Vineyard Ch in Loughton, Essex (founded 1985). A musician who has toured with Graham Kendrick, his work… |
| Strutt, Richard |
b Terling, nr Chelmsford, Essex 1848, d Bath 1927. Winchester Coll; Magdalen Coll Oxford (MA 1876). Worked for an American bank in London, then at the Stock Exchange. Choirmaster and Churchwarden at… |
| Helen Lemmel, George Romanacce, Nic Trout, Kevin Winebarger and Nathan Stiff |
Helen wrote the words for 'O soul, are you weary and troubled'.
Additional words and a chorus have been added by George Romanacce, Nic Trout, Kevin Winebarger and Nathan Stiff.
This has been… |
| Ada Habershon and Matt Merker |
Ada wrote the original words for 'He will hold me fast'.
Matt wrote the music and the chorus.
for more details about Ada and Matt, please access their personal entry pages. |
| Purday, Charles Henry |
b Folkestone, Kent 1799, d Notting Hill, London 1885. Born into a musical family he became a musician, publisher and lecturer in music. From the 1840s he was Precentor (Conductor of the Psalmody) at… |
| Salisbury Book of Hours, 1514 |
Aka the Sarum Book of āHoursā, the Daily Offices prescribed for its monastic house, which Richard Pynson printed in London; one copy survives, at Clare Coll Cambridge. This was one of a series of… |
| Weissel, Georg |
b Domnau, Prussia 1590, d Kƶnigsberg 1635. The son of the burgomaster of Domnau, he graduated from the Univ of Kƶnigsberg in 1611, and briefly at more than one other university before becoming… |
| Scholefield, Clement Cotterill |
b (St Clementās Ch) Edgbaston, nr Birmingham (Warwicks) 1839, d Godalming, Surrey 1904. The youngest son of a Birmingham MP, he attended Pocklington Grammar Sch and St Johnās Coll Cambridge; BA,… |
| Schutter, Ignace De |
(also SUTTER, as in Praise!), b 1911, d 1988. A Belgian professional church musician and leading organist who also taught church music, Gregorian chant, Hymnology and Folksong studies at the… |
| Shaw, Geoffrey Turton |
b Clapham, Surrey/SW London 1879, d Westminster, London 1943. A younger brother of Martin S (see below), he attended St Paulās Cathedral Sch; Gonville and Caius Coll Cambridge. From 1902 to 1910 he… |
| Smith, Henry Percy |
b Malta 1825, d Bournemouth, Hants 1898. Balliol Coll Oxford (BA, MA); ordained (CofE) in 1849, he was curate at Eversley, Hants, and York Town, nr Camberley, Surrey, for several years. He became… |
| Smith, Oswald Jeffray (Jeffrey) |
b Odessa. Ontario, Canada 1889, d Toronto, Canada, 1986. He founded and (for over 30 years pastored) The Peopleās Church in Toronto, moving from senior pastor to missionary pastor and visiting every… |
| 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 Childrenāsā Home for destitute… |
| Wade, John Francis |
b ?England 1710 or 1711, d Douai, France 1786. An English Roman Catholic Latin teacher and music copyist, whose family or friends may have joined the small community of RCs who settled for security in… |
| 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… |
| King, Cora |
Ms Cora King was born in Calcutta in India in 1954.
She came to know God personally at age 14 through a school Christian meeting. She has been captivated and kept by His Word ever since through… |
| Wilson, David Gordon |
b Greenwich, SE London 1940. Colfeās Grammar Sch, Lewisham; Manchester Univ (BSc Botany); Clare Coll and Ridley Hall Cambridge (MA Theol). Ordained (CofE) 1965, serving curacies in London, then… |
| 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,… |
| Sweney, John Robson |
SWENEY, John Robson, b West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA 1837, d Chester, PA 1899. By the age of 22 he was teaching music in Dover, Delaware. After serving as a Delaware regimental band conductor in the… |
| 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… |
| Campbell, Thomas |
b Sheffield, Yorks 1825, d 1876. For a composer of one highly popular hymn tune, some 90 years after the words to which it is sung, surprisingly little is known of his life. The Bouquet of 23 original… |
| Alexander, James Waddell |
b Hopewell, Virginia, USA 1804, d Sweetsprings, Va 1849. Princeton Theol Seminary (=Coll of New Jersey, 1820). A man from a Scottish family whose career alternated between pastoral and academic posts,… |
| Fedak, Alfred V |
b Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA 1953. Degrees from Hope College and Montclair State Univ. Worked as organist and choir director in Michigan and New Jersey (Pompton Reformed) churches; currently (1999)… |
| 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… |
| Ley, Henry George |
b Chagford, Devon 1887, d Feniton, nr Ottery St Mary, Devon 1962. St Georgeās Sch Windsor (chorister at St Georgeās Chapel), Uppingham Sch (music Scholar), and RCM. Organist at St Maryās Farnham… |
