| Smallwood, William |
b Kendal, Westmorland (Cumbria) 1831, d Kendal 1897. Coming from a musical family, he studied the organ at York; became organist of Kendal Parish Ch at 15 and remained there for 50 years. He composed… |
| Sibomana, Emanuel T |
b Burundi c1910–15, d 1975. He probably grew up in central Burundi, and lived near Musema where there was a Baptist mission. In the 1930s he became a Christian, and was ordained as a Baptist pastor… |
| Roberts, John Henry |
b ?Mynydd Llandegai, Pen-rallt, Y Gefnan, Caernarvons 1848, d Liverpool 1924. As a boy he worked in Penrhyn slate quarry, Bethesda, and was organist at 14 in a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. A quarry… |
| Lacey Carolyn |
b 1973 in South London. She attended a local comprehensive school and Sixth Form college before moving to study Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol. After graduating in 1995, she… |
| Richards, Tricia |
b Plymouth, Devon, 1960. School in Plymouth; she met Noel, her future husband and songwriting partner, in 1975 while she was a senior schoolgirl and he was a visiting missioner with Youth for Christ.… |
| Rheinhardt Ms, Uttingen (1754) |
A German chorale book compiled between 21 June and 22 July 1754, bearing the name of Johann Heinrich Rheinhardt. No.194. |
| Pope, George Alexander |
b 1830, d Romford, Essex 1893. The composer of one enduring tune which appears in The Companion Tune Book and a few current collections; no more information is available. No.648. |
| Paine, Donald |
20th-c Schoolmaster and Director of Music at Radley Coll, nr Abingdon, Oxon. No.555*. |
| Newman, Richard Stinson |
b Wednesbury, Staffs 1850, d Abergele, Conwy (Denbighs) 1927. From around 1870 he served as organist at Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Ch in Wolverhampton (now in W Midlands) for some 35 years. He is… |
| Werner's Choralbuch (1815) |
Johann Gottlob Werner (?1777–?1822) was b at Hayn, became organist at Saxony, deputy cantor at Hohenstein and music director of Merseburg where he died. The book he compiled, Choralbuch zu den neuen… |
| Morley, Henry Litchfield |
b ?London 1834, d ?Greenwich 1916 or ?N America 1883 (dates not certain as given in 1st Full Music edn). He is said to have been a music teacher in Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell, SE London, and… |
| Monaghan, Stephanie |
(formerly MASON), b Islington, N London 1953. Central Foundation Girls’ Grammar Sch, London EC1. Graduated BA in Theology and Religious Studies (1998); Diploma in Journalism and Combined Arts. A… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Lewis, Richard |
A keyboard player from the 1990s onwards who has published several books of his own songs. No.181. |
| Williams, Derek |
b Sheffield 1945. King Edward VII Sch, Sheffield; Selwyn Coll Cambridge (organ scholar). He is currently Head of the Music Dept at Cambridge Univ Library. No.108. |
| 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… |
| Godfrey, Nathaniel Stedman |
b London 1817, d Southsea, Hants 1883. Although one tune of his occurs in mainly Baptist collections such as CH, GH, and The Companion Tune Book, almost nothing has been discovered about its composer.… |
| Garrard, Stuart |
(stage name, ‘Stu G’), b in the Dales, 1963. After Westbourne High School he spent some 7 years with Eastern Electricity, while also playing guitar and singing in bands for local churches and… |
| Freylinghausen's Gesangbuch (1704) |
Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (b Gandersheim, Brunswick, Germany 1670, d Halle, Germany 1739) published his Geist-reiches Gesang-Buch, den Kern alter und neuer Lieder...in 1704; many other edns… |
| Forrest, Charles Henry |
(given as MHF in Praise!), b Birmingham 1846, d Lancs 1925. Composer of one hymn tune which survives in a few current books; see note in EP vol 1. No.897. |
| Wyeth's repository of sacred music, 1813 |
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| Flemming, Friedrich Ferdinand |
b Neuhausen, Germany 1778, d Berlin, Germany 1813. After training in medicine at Wittenburg from 1796 to 1800, he did further study at Jena, Vienna and Trieste. He then worked as a Berlin doctor for… |
| Doane, William Howard |
b Preston, Connecticut, USA 1832, d S Orange, New Jersey 1915. Educated at the Woodstock Academy, conducting the school choir at 14. He came to faith in Christ at the Baptist Ch, Norwich, Conn; in… |
| Divine Companion 1722 |
Henry Playford published the 1st edn of this book in 1701; it contained Robert King’s tune, much neglected since but revived in the 1906 EH. No.878. |
| Darmstadt Gesangbuch (1698) |
Full title, Geistreiches Gesangbuch; this tune is the most notable survivor of the German collection. See also notes to 556 and 943 in vol 1. No.313. |
| Damascene, John |
see John of Damascus. No.472. |
| Hadley, Patrick Arthur Sheldon |
b Cambridge 1899, d Heacham, nr Hunstanton, Norfolk 1973. Winchester Coll and Pembroke Coll Cambridge (MA). Active in the war 1917–18 where he lost a leg; he then studied composition at the RCM… |
| Green, Harold |
b Helme, nr Huddersfield, W Yorks 1871, d Umzimkulu, Cape Province, S Africa 1930. Like E M Crawford (qv), the author of the hymn to which his one enduring tune is usually set (found mostly in… |
