| Lahee, Henry |
b Chelsea, W London (Middx) 1826, d Croydon, Surrey 1912. Studied music under Sterndale Bennett, John Goss and Cipriani Potter; after organ posts with 3 W London and city churches he settled at Holy… |
| Francis, Samuel Trevor |
b Cheshunt, Herts 1834, d Worthing, Sussex 1925. Moving in his early years to Hull, S Yorks, he received basic education from his aunt and grandmother. He was a choirboy at the parish church and in… |
| Knight, Mollie |
b 1917, d 1993. She was a Primary School Teacher and poet, a member with husband Trevor of Purley Baptist Ch, Surrey. She contributed paraphrases to The Book of Praises (1986), and Psalms for Today… |
| Fellingham, David (Dave) |
b Horsham, Sussex 1945. His Salvationist family settled in Tongham near Aldershot, where he responded to the gospel as a child, finding that faith and music mixed easily. He attended George Abbot Sch… |
| Magdalen Hospital Hymns (c1762) |
Though indexed separately, this source may refer to the same book as the preceding item; the date is uncertain, and both book-titles were and are in use. A āFourth Collectionā appeared in 1776. As… |
| Marshall, Wayne |
b Oldham, Lancs 1961. Chethamās Sch, Manchester; organ scholar at Manchester Cathedral before studying organ and piano at RCM, graduating in 1983 with several prizes for both instruments, and the… |
| Bridge, Joseph Cox |
b Rochester, Kent 1853, d St Albans, Herts 1929. The surviving tune for which he is known is preserved in the 1933 Methodist book, the Redemption Hymnal (1955) and GH (set to two adjacent hymns) but… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Kempis, Thomas Ć (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… |
| Beckley, Simon |
b 1938. London Univ (BA 1961) and Oak Hill Theol Coll from 1958; Ordained (CofE) 1963. After serving as a curate in Watford, New Ferry (Ches) until 1967, then at Chadderton (Gtr Manchester), he became… |
| Motyer Lowndes, Catherine (Kate) M |
b London 1968, daughter of J A Motyer qv (Author index). Talbot Heath Sch for Girls, Bournemouth and Cambridge Univ (B Ed); works as a teacher, and belongs to St Chadās ch, Handforth, Ches (CofE);… |
| Bullinger, Ethelbert Willliam |
b Kent 1837, d Hendon, Middx 1913. A Canterbury Cathedral Choirboy, he studied music under J P Hullah and W H Monk (qv) and trained for ordination at Kingās Coll London. Skilled in Heb and Gk, he… |
| Campen, Basil Robert |
b Chelmsford, Essex 1938. King Edward VI Grammar Sch, Chelmsford, and London Bible College (BD). An accountant who lives in W Sussex, he belongs to Cuckfield Baptist Ch, he has written occasional… |
| 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… |
| Psalmodia Evangelica (1789) |
A 2-vol compilation by Thos Williams, published in London, subtitled A Complete Set of Psalms and Hymn Tunes in Three Parts for Public Worship. Some, like its single most enduring contribution to… |
| Cook, Vikki |
COOK, Vikki, b England? 20th-c solo-singer, singing teacher, songwriter and worship leader; most notably, she has composed one tune which gained rapid popularity wedded to an older text. Many of the… |
| Costain, George Arthur |
b 1901, d 1987. A secondary school music teacher at Leighton Park School, Reading. 1928ā30, where David Preston (qv) also taught in the 1960s. Composed tunes for school use; Praise! is the first… |
| Haydn, Johann Michael |
b Rohrau, Lower Austria 1737, d Salzburg 1806. Younger brother of FJH qv, and like him an older contemporary and friend of W A Mozart; he became Kapellmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg, holding… |
| Brooks, Gerard |
b Abingdon, Oxon 1956. John Mason High Sch; Lincoln Coll Oxford (MA, Music); Strasbourg Conservatoire (organ studies); and Homerton Coll Cambridge (PGCE). A travelling scholarship furthered his… |
| Nageli, Johann (or Hans) Georg |
b Wetzikon, nr ZĆ¼rich, Switzerland 1773, d Wetzikon 1836. Taught first by his minister father, from 1790 he studied further in ZĆ¼rich, notably the music of J S Bach. He founded a music shop and… |
| Lee, James Vernon |
b Hove, Sussex 1892, d Southampton, Hants 1959. Committed to the work of the Boysā Brigade, he was an officer of its Brighton Battalion from 1910, became its adjutant in 1914, but then joined the… |
| Bury, William |
b ?Lancs 1788, d 1857. During his lifetime, his hymn tunes were circulated in ms in Accrington (Lancs) and more widely throughout the district. They never became well-known beyond there, but two of… |
| Bain, James Leith Macbeth |
b Scotland c1840, d Liverpool (or Wallasey, Cheshire) 1925. A poet, composer and mystic whose religious views underwent many changes. In 1911 he published a collection with a title beginning In the… |
| Lancashire Sunday School Songs (1857) |
The tune comes, strictly speaking, in Sacred Hymns and Harmonies...The Musical Companion to āLancashire Sunday School Songsā both books being published in the same year, the tune book edited by J… |
| Matthews, William |
b Ilkeston, Derbys 1759, d Nottingham 1830. After his youth spent in Ilkeston he became a stocking manufacturer in Nottingham. His spare time was devoted to music, both conducting the local choir and… |
| Chandler, John |
b Witley, nr Godalming, Surrey 1806, d Putney, Surrey (SW London) 1876. Corpus Christi Coll Oxford (BA 1827, then a Fellow). Ordained (CofE) 1831, to be curate of Witley before succeeding his father,… |
| 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… |
| Jenner, Henry Lascelles |
b Chislehurst, Kent 1820, d Preston-next-Wingham, Eastry, nr Sandwich, Kent 1898. Harrow Sch and Trinity Coll Cambridge LLB 1841. Ordained in 1843, he was a curate at Chevening, Kent; St Columb and St… |
| 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… |
