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Executive President Ian Sharp |
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Ian Sharp was born in Weymouth in 1943. A member of the Hymn Society for some forty years, he is an Emeritus Senior Fellow in Church Music at Liverpool Hope University (formerly S. Katharine's College / Liverpool Institute of Higher Education) where he lectured in Music, Music Education and Education Studies from 1969, retiring in 2003 as Foundation Dean. Ian was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (Organ Exhibitioner) and at the universities of Birmingham, York and Liverpool (PhD). He is a Fellow and Choirmaster of the Royal College of Organists and a holder of the Archbishops' Diploma in Church Music. He is the composer of a number of hymn tunes, many of them to texts by Elizabeth Cosnett. He is currently a member of the Council of the Royal School of Church Music and chair of the Liverpool Area of the RSCM. |
Executive Vice-President: Alan Luff |
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Alan Luff born Bristol 1928: read classics and theology at Oxford; ordained Manchester 1956. Precentor Manchester Cathedral 1962-69; Vicar Penmaenmawr 1969-79; Precentor Westminster Abbey 1979-92; Canon of Birmingham 1992-94. Interest in hymns deepened by membership of Dunblane Consultation; lectured on Welsh Hymns to Hymn Society leading to writing of book Welsh Hymns and their Tunes (1990). Has served HS as Secretary, Chairman, Vice Executive President. Has been the contact between HS and the International Fellowship for Hymnology. Editor of centenary volume for English Hymnal. |
Secretary: Robert A. Canham |
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Revd Robert Canham was born and grew up in Chelmsford, Essex where he worked in the family Builders' Merchants and became Managing Director. He was ordained as a minister of the United Reformed Church in 1985 and has served in pastoral ministry in Chelmsford, Brentwood and Ingatestone and currently Lancaster. Robert married Jenny in 1970 and they have two sons. Robert joined The Hymn Society in 1994. In 2000 Robert became a member of the Executive Committee and in 2002 he served as Chaplain to the Leicester Conference. In 2003 he was elected Honorary Secretary of the Society. Apart from hymns, Robert's passions include butterflies and their conservation, his two labrador dogs, listening to music and roaming the Lake District fells. Robert is a Trustee of The Pratt Green Trust. |
Treasurer: James Dickinson |
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James lives in Chesterfield with his wife Patricia. He is a non-practising Anglican priest who worships at St John's Church Newbold and served his title there from 1970 to1973. He has a strong interest in the history of hymnody and has a fine collection of Cof E Hymnals, including the Clumber Hymnal, Gladstone's Hymnary, the Yattendon and every edition of A&M and the EH including the elusive 'abridged'! James had a lecture on the 'Centenary of the English Hymnal' published last year published in 2007. He is a new member of the Hymn Society and attended his firstConference at Moulton College in 2007. He was honoured and surprised to be elected onto the Executive. |
Editor: Dr Andrew Pratt |
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The Rev Dr Andrew Pratt is a British Methodist Minister and Hymn Writer. Born in Paignton, Devon, he studied Zoology at university, took a Masters in Marine Biology and then taught for seven years in secondary schools. He trained for the Methodist Ministry at Queens College, Birmingham serving in various Circuits in the North West of England. He researched the hymns of Frederick Faber for a MA and then completed a PhD on the Methodist Hymn Book (1933). His book, ‘O for a thousand tongues’ based on this research was published by the Methodist Publishing House in the United Kingdom in December 2004. He has written over 400 hymns and has had three published collections, Blinded by the Dazzle, Whatever Name or Creed and Reclaiming Praise (all by Stainer & Bell Ltd). He is a Tutor in Contextual Theology at Hartley Victoria College, part of the Luther King Foundation for Theological Education in Manchester, England, training people for Ministry. He broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio Merseyside. |
Web co-ordinator Gillian Warson
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Gillian Warson is a writer, teacher and viola player. She has a particular interest in hymnody and local history and has published four books on hymn singing in North Oxfordshire. She has given papers at conferences in Romania and Canada as well as all over the UK and Ireland. She has written a biography of the hymn writer Fred Kaan which is published by Stainer and Bell. Gillian is married with two teenaged children....more |