Abrams, Harriett (c. 1758–1821), singer and composer, was, according to her niece's husband, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, the daughter of a man who came to England 'in the suite of some Hanoverian minister, in what capacity I never heard' (Trollope, 151...
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Abrams, Harriett (c. 1758–1821), singer and composer
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
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Adson, John (bap. 1587?, d. 1640), musician and composer
David Lasocki
Adson, John (bap. 1587
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Alcock, John (bap. 1740, d. 1791)
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Alcock, John (1715–1806), organist and composer chorister
H. Diack Johnstone
Alcock, John (1715–1806), organist and composer, was born at the family home, Crane Court, St Peter's Hill, London, on 11 April 1715, the third of the eight children of Daniel Alcock (bap. 1686) and his wife, Mary. They lived only a stone's throw from ...
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Alexander [née Humphreys], Cecil Frances [Fanny] (1818–1895), hymn writer and poet
Leon Litvack
Alexander [née Humphreys], Cecil Frances [Fanny] (1818–1895), hymn writer and poet, was born at 25 Eccles Street, Dublin. She was the second daughter of John Humphreys, a second lieutenant in the Royal Marines and later brigade major in the Tyrone yeomanry, and his wife, ...
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Alexander, Cecil Frances (1818–1895)
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Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895) by Charles Napier Kennedy, 1894 photograph © Ulster Museum. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland
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Allan [Allen], James [Jimmy] (1734–1810), Northumbrian piper and rogue
Keith Gregson
Allan [Allen], James [Jimmy] (1734–1810), Northumbrian piper and rogue, was born at Hepple, Northumberland, probably in March 1734, and baptized at Rothbury, Northumberland, on 21 April 1734, the son of William Allan or Allen, also known as Wull Faa, a noted vermin hunter and performer on the Northumbrian small pipes. ...
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Allen, Sir Hugh Percy (1869–1946), musicologist and conductor
W. K. Stanton
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Allen, Sir Hugh Percy (1869–1946), musicologist and conductor, was born at Reading on 23 December 1869, the youngest of the seven children of John Herbert Allen (1834–1905), who was in business with Huntley and Palmers of Reading. His mother, Rebecca, née...
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Allitsen, Frances [real name Mary Frances Bumpus] (1848–1912), composer
Sophie Fuller
Allitsen, Frances [real name Mary Frances Bumpus] (1848–1912), composer, was born on 30 December 1848 at 159 Oxford Street, London, one of the seven children of John Bumpus (1817/18–1880), a bookseller, and his wife, Emma Louisa Barton (1824/5–1892). She was baptized Mary Frances Bumpus...
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Amner, John (d. 1641), composer and organist
John Morehen
Amner, John (d. 1641), composer and organist, came from a family which was intimately associated with the music at Ely Cathedral for over half a century. Michael Amner, his uncle, was a lay clerk at the cathedral (1576–88), as was also Ralph Amner...
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Amner, Ralph (d. 1664), musician
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Anstice, Joseph (1808–1836), classical scholar and hymn writer
Alexander Gordon
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Anstice, Joseph (1808–1836), classical scholar and hymn writer, the second son of William Anstice (1769/70–1850) and his wife, Penelope Polly Isbell (bap. 1772, d. 1857), daughter of John Poole of Over Stowey, Somerset, was born on 21 December 1808 at ...
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Armes, Philip (1836–1908), organist
J. C. Bridge
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Armes, Philip (1836–1908), organist, born at Norwich on 15 August 1836, was the eldest son of Philip Armes (1814–1882), a schoolmaster and bass singer and his wife, Mary, née Harcourt (1814–1863). He was a chorister in Norwich Cathedral from 1846 to 1848, then joined the choir of ...
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Armstrong, Sir Thomas Henry Wait (1898–1994)
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Sir Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong (1898–1994) by Walter Bird, 1968 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Armstrong, Sir Thomas Henry Wait (1898–1994), organist and college administrator
Richard Stoker
Armstrong, Sir Thomas Henry Wait (1898–1994), organist and college administrator, was born on 15 June 1898 at Peterborough, the only son of Amos Ebenezer Armstrong (1878–1950), an organist and choirmaster, and his wife, Elizabeth Annie West, née Handford (1880–1939), a former headmistress. He had two younger sisters, ...
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Arnold, George Benjamin (1832–1902), organist and composer
Frederick Corder
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Arnold, George Benjamin (1832–1902), organist and composer, born on 22 December 1832 at Petworth, Sussex, was the son of George Frederick Handel Arnold (1795–1883), organist of the parish church of Petworth, and his wife, Mary, née Cooper (1797/8–1864). He was articled to ...
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Arnold, John (1720–1792), psalmodist and composer
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Arnold, John (1720–1792), psalmodist and composer, was baptized on 10 November 1720 in the village of Great Warley, Essex, the son of John Arnold (bap. 1689, d. 1762), yeoman farmer, and his wife, Penelope, née Brecknock (d. 1728). As a gentleman farmer he was active on the parish vestry from the age of twenty-one until a few years before his death, but he put most of his considerable energy into music. He signed the preface of his first publication, ...
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Arnold, Samuel (1740–1802)
Maker: George Dance
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Samuel Arnold (1740–1802) by George Dance, 1795 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Arnold, Samuel (1740–1802), composer
Eva Zöllner
Arnold, Samuel (1740–1802), composer, was born in London on 10 August 1740, the son of Thomas Arnold; he may have been the Samuel Arnull, son of Thomas and Mary Arnull, baptized at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 21 August that year. During his time as a choirboy in the ...
