| Tomlin, Chris |
Chris is published by Praise! online at number 1257, which he co-wrote with Ed Cash and Jesse Reeves |
| John L Bell & Graham Maule |
John and Graham are published together by Praise! online at 1260. |
| 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… |
| Davies, Matthew William |
b Neath, Glam 1882, d Neath 1947. A Welsh composer whose best-known tune was chosen for 3 hymns in CH (2 in its 2004 edn) and 2 in Christian Worship (1976). No.126. |
| Virginia Harmony (1831) |
An influential collection published at Winchester, Virginia, USA, and now mainly known for an early printing of one notable tune. This was also found in Columbia Harmony, or, Pilgrim’s Musical… |
| Barnes, G Le Maire |
Not so far traced (not G L Barnes, as above); among his hymn tunes is the one he wrote for G K Chesterton’s O God of earth and altar, as featured here. No.72. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Hurst, William |
b Leicester 1849, d Coalville, Leics, 1934. He lived in Coalville for most of his life, with no permanent musical post. His compositions were limited to organ music and hymn tunes. Contributor to 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… |
| Lyra Davidica |
1708. Published anonymously in London, this words-only collection consists mainly of translations from Lat and German into English. It has been quarried for 2 or 3 treasures which feature in many… |
| Martin, George William |
[some books give G Walter], b London 1828, d Wandsworth, S London 1881. A St Paul’s Cathedral chorister who sang at Queen Victoria’s coronation. He was Music master at the Normal Coll for Army… |
| Abbott, Evelyn F |
Composer of the tune CHAPEL BRAE (GH 468) and one included here; her work features at 3 points in The Companion Tune Book (qv) but has not appeared in other main hymn-books, and no other details are… |
| Pavlechko, Thomas |
b Ohio, USA 1962. Youngstown State Univ (BMus), Univ of Cincinnati (MMus). Organist and Music Director, St Martin’s Evangelical Lutheran Ch, Austin, Texas, active in many regional Lutheran… |
| Hughes, Griffith William |
b Cefn-mawr, Wrexham, NE Wales 1861, d Prestatyn, Flints 1941. He spent most of his life in his home town, and became Precentor at the nearby Capel Mawr Calvinistic Methodist Ch at Rhosllannerchrugog,… |
| Dixon, Robert William |
b 1805, d 1876. No information about his life is available; the tune included here (and in CH and GH but rarely elsewhere) may have originated from the Burnley Tune Book, according to Cliff Knight.… |
| Griffiths, Andrew Kenneth |
b East Sheen, London SW14, 1947. Licentiate of Trinity Coll of Music, Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. Member of the C of E, living at Surbiton, Surrey; Environmental Health… |
| Martin, Austin |
A songwriter and singer active in the 1980s-90s, represented in ‘Spring Harvest’ collections, MP and elsewhere. No.286. |
| 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… |
| Barff, Frederick John |
b 1911, d 1968. Christ’s Coll Cambridge (BA History, MA), Wycliffe Hall Oxford 1934–35. He was ordained (CofE) in 1935; after a curacy in Stowmarket, Suffk, he worked with CSSM from 1938 to 1940.… |
| 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… |
| Thomson, Phil |
He has been writing songs, alone or with John Daniels, since the 1980s. His best known, included here and known also as ‘Light [or Lights] to the world’ appeared in Glory to God (1994), and in the… |
| Alderson, William |
b Cliviger, nr Burnley, Lancs 1887, d Cliviger 1957. Organist and choirmaster at Mount Zion Chapel in his native village where he spent the whole of his life. His one known tune features in The… |
| Tiddeman, Maria |
b Oxford 1837, d Cowley, Oxon 1915 (or Croydon, Surrey 1913). Growing up in a clerical family at St Giles, Oxford, she studied music at Oxford Univ and was a writer of anthems, part songs, and one… |
| Tindall, John |
b Manchester 1942. Chadderton Grammar Sch, Lancs (Greater Manchester); ordained to the Methodist ministry, he later transferred to the FIEC. In 1984 he became the minister of Chessington Evangelical… |
| Strasbourg Psalter, 1545 |
A book of Psalm versions and other metrical paraphrases published in a period of 2 or 3 decades of great industry, notably in London and Geneva. No.301. |
| Willing, Christopher Edwin Cumming |
b Tavistock, Devon 1830, d Bowes Park, Southgate, Middx 1904. Westminster Abbey chorister from 1839; organist of Blackheath Park Ch from 1845, and asst organist, Westminster Abbey. Organist at the… |
| Blockley, John |
b St Pancras, London (Middx) 1801, d Hampstead, N London (Middx) 1882. He was a prolific composer and publisher of songs in London who is sometimes confused with his son Thomas (1830–1904), also a… |
| Thorne, Edward Henry |
b Cranborne, Dorset 1834, d Maida Vale, W London 1916. A chorister at St George’s Windsor (under G J Elvey qv), he became the deputy and then organist at Henley Parish Ch from 1853, and Chichester… |
| 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… |
