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| Abell, John (b. 1653 d. 1716 a. 1679-1700) | composer, violin in the private music for the voic |
| Aldrich, Henry (b. 1648 d. 1710) | divine, scholar |
| Alison, Richard (a. 1592-1606) | composer, professor |
| Allen, Henry (b. 1748 d. 1784) | preacher, writer |
| Allibond, John (b. 1597 d. 1658) | schoolmaster, music lecturer |
| Anderson, William (b. 1799 d. 1873) | clergyman, writer |
| Arne, Thomas Augustine (b. 1710 d. 1778) | composer, violin |
| Arnold, Samuel (b. 1740 d. 1802) | composer, organ |
| Atterbury, Luffman (b. 1740 d. 1796 a. 18th century |
composer, musician |
| Avison, Charles (b. 1710 d. 1770) | composer, conductor |
| Balmanno, Mary (a. 1855) | artist, poetess |
| Baltzar, Thomas (b. 1630 d. 1663) | violin, composer |
| Bamfylde, John Codrington Warwick (b. 1754 d. 1796) | writer on music |
| Banester, Gilbert (b. 1450 d. 1490) | composer, poet |
| Banister, John (b. 1625 d. 1679) | composer, violin |
| Barker, Laura Wilson (b. 1819 d. 1905) | violin, composer |
| Barton, William (b. 1598 d. 1678) | hymnologist |
| Bates, Joah (b. 1740 d. 1799) | civil servant, organ |
| Bateson, Thomas (b. 1580 d. 1620) | organ, composer |
| Battishill, Jonathan (b. 1738 d. 1801) | organ, composer |
| Baxter, John Alexander (a. 1835-1840) | clergyman, historian |
| Beddome, Benjamin (b. 1717 d. 1795) | clergyman, hymn writer |
| Bell, Jane Cross (b. 1811 d. 1886) | hymn writer |
| Bennet, John (a. 1600) | musician, composer |
| Benoit de Sainte Maur (a. 1180) | troubadour |
| Bevin, Elway (b. 1554 d. 1639) | composer, theorist |
| Bishop, Henry Rowley (b. 1786 d. 1855) | composer |
| Bishop, John (a. 1840) | composer |
| Blewitt, Jonathan (b. 1782 d. 1853) | organ, conductor |
| Blow, John (b. 1649 d. 1708) | child of the Chapel, composer |
| Bonar, Horatius (b. 1808 d. 1889) | minister, editor |
| Boyce, William |
| Browne, Simon (b. 1680 d. 1732) | Pastor, author |
| Browning, Robert (b. 1812 d. 1889) | cast, poet |
| Bryskett, Lodowick [Lewis] (a. 1571-1611) | translator, Elegist |
| Buddicom, Robert Pedder (b. 1770 d. 1846) | clergyman, writer |
| Bunting, Edward (b. 1773 d. 1843) | collector of Irish folk songs, organ |
| Burney, Charles (b. 1726 d. 1814) | composer, storiografo |
| Burrowes, John Freckleton (b. 1787 d. 1852) | writer, composer |
| Burrowes, Robert (b. 1756 d. 1841) | DEAN~, sermonist |
| Busby, Thomas (b. 1755 d. 1838) | writer, musician |
| Butler, Charles (b. 1560 d. 1647 a. 1636) | priest, amateur musician |
| Byrd, William (b. 1538 d. 1623) |
| Callcott, John Wall (b. 1766 d. 1821) | composer, theorist |
| Callcott, Maria Hutchins (b. 1799 d. 1959) | musician, miscellaneous writer |
| Campion, Thomas (d. 1619) | librettista, poet |
| Carey, George Saville (b. 1743 d. 1807) | poet, dramatist |
| Carey, Henry (b. 1689 d. 1743) | composer, dramatist |
| Carter, Thomas [Charles Thomas] (b. 1740 d. 1804) | composer |
| Catley, Anne (b. 1745 d. 1789) | soprano |
| Cecil, Richard (b. 1748 d. 1810) | clergyman, musician |
| Chapman, Richard (b. 1819 d. 1861 a. 1833) | organ builder, writer on music |
| Chetham, John (b. 1700 d. 1746) | psalmodist, clergyman |
| Chichester, William (b. 1813 d. 1883) | composer |
| Child, William (b. 1606 d. 1697) | composer, organ |
| Clarke, Jeremiah (b. 1674 d. 1707) | composer, organ |
| Clifford, James (b. 1622 d. 1698) | divine, musician |
| Cocks | writer on music |
| Cooke, Benjamin (b. 1734 d. 1793) | organ, composer |
| Corbet, Robert (b. 1810 d. 1881) | hymnist |
| Cosbie, Arnold (a. 1590) | Murderer, Elegist |
| Crawford, Robert (d. 1733) | composer, lyricist |
| Creightan, Robert (b. 1639 d. 1734) | Precentor |
| Croft, William (b. 1677 d. 1727) | musician |
| Crotch, William (b. 1775 d. 1847) | composer, organ |
| Dakins, William Whitfield (a. 1798-1810) | Precentor, writer |
| Daniel, John (a. 1605-1625) | musician |
| Davidson, Thomas (b. 1615 a. 1640) | editor, teacher |
| Davy, John (b. 1763 d. 1824) | composer |
| Dawson, Charles (a. 1840) | writer on music |
| Deloney, Thomas (a. 16th century |
ballad writer, pamphleteer |
| Denny, Edward (b. 1796 d. 1889) | poet, hymnist |
| Dering, Richard (b. 1580 d. 1630) | composer, organista |
| Dibdin, Charles (b. 1745 d. 1814) | composer, poet |
| Dowland, John (b. 1563 d. ?) | composer, lutenist |
| Dowland, Robert (b. 1591 d. 1641) | editor, composer |
| Dufferin, Helen Selina (b. 1807 d. 1867) | composer |
| Dupuis, Thomas Sanders [Saunders] (b. 1730 d. 1796) | composer, organ |
| Earsden, John (a. 1618) | composer, musician |
| East, Michael (b. 1580 d. 1648) | composer |
| Eastcott, Richard (b. 1740 d. 1828) | writer, musician |
| Ebers, John (b. 1785 d. 1830) | operatic manager, book seller |
| Eccles, John (b. 1668 d. 1735) | composer |
| Elderton, William (d. 1592) | ballad writer, attorney |
| Elliotson, John (b. 1791 d. 1868) | physician, Mesaerist |
| Engel, Carl (b. 1818 d. 1882) | organologist, musicologist |
| Esdaile, James (b. 1808 d. 1859) | surgeon, Mesaerist |
| Este, John (a. 1607) | lyra viol, composer |
| Evelyn, John (b. 1620 d. 1706) | cast, civil servant |
| Farmer, John (a. 1591-1601) | madrigalist, composer |
| Farnaby, Giles (b. 1563 d. 1646) | composer |
| Farrant, Richard (a. 1564-1580) | composer |
| Filmer, Edward (b. 1589 d. 1650 a. 1629) | editor, composer |
| Fisher, David (b. 1761 d. 1832) | theater manager, singer |
| Ford, Ann [aft. Thicknesse] (b. 1737 d. 1824) | Authoress, musician |
| Ford, David Everard (b. 1797 d. 1875) | composer, organ |
| Ford, Thomas (d. 1648) | composer |
| Fortescue, Eleanor (d. 1847) | hymnist |
| Fountaine, Andrew (b. 1676 d. 1753) | Virtuoso |
| Gaimar, Geoffrey (a. 1140) | minstrel, author |
| Gardiner, William (b. 1770 d. 1853) | hosiery manufacturer, writer on music |
| Gibbons, Christopher (b. 1615 d. 1676) | organ, composer |
| Gibbons, Ellis (b. 1573 d. 1603) | composer |
| Graham, George Farquhar (b. 1789 d. 1867) | musician, composer |
| Gray, Charles (b. 1782 d. 1851) | musical poet, naval captain |
| Greatorex, Thomas (b. 1758 d. 1831) | conductor, teacher |
| Greaves, Thomas (a. 1604) | composer, lutenist |
| Greene, Maurice (b. 1696 d. 1755) | organ, composer |
| Gunn, John (b. 1765 d. 1824) | writer on music |
| Gwynneth, John (b. 1495 d. 1562) | composer, divine |
| Hamilton, James (b. 1814 d. 1867) | minister, hymnist |
| Harington, Henry (b. 1727 d. 1816) | physician, author |
| Harries, Margaret Mary | author, composer |
| Harrison, Anne (b. 1625 d. 1680) | lutenist, singer |
| Hart, Joseph (b. 1712 d. 1768) | preacher, hymnist |
| Harvey, Richard (b. 1798 d. 1889) | chaplain, hymnist |
| Haverfield, Thomas Tunstall (a. 1847) | clergyman, rector |
| Helmore, Thomas (b. 1811 d. 1890) | teacher, choir trainer |
| Henslowe, W.H. | curate, sermonist |
| Herd, David (b. 1732 d. 1810) | collector of old Scots songs, ballad collector |
| Hill, Rowland (b. 1744 d. 1833) | preacher, hymnist |
| Hilton, John (b. 1599 d. 1657) | organ, composer |
| Holborne, Anthony (d. 1602) | composer, musicisti |
| Holditch, Annie (d. 1857) | religious novelist, hymnist |
| Holmes, Edward (b. 1797 d. 1859) | critic, organ |
| Holyoke, Samuel Adams (b. 1771 d. 1816) | teacher, composer |
| Hook, James (b. 1746 d. 1827) | organ, composer |
| Hope, Thomas (b. 1770 d. 1831) | Virtuoso, author |
| Hopkinson, Joseph (b. 1770 d. 1842) | lawyer, poet |
| Horn, Charles Edward (b. 1786 d. 1849 a. 1827) | composer, singer |
| Horsley, William (b. 1774 d. 1858) | composer |
| Howard, Samuel (b. 1710 d. 1782) | composer, organ |
| Hull, William Winstanley (b. 1794 d. 1873) | writer, hymnologist |
| Hullah, John (Pyke) (b. 1812 d. 1884) | composer, composer |
| Hume, Abraham (b. 1749 d. 1838) | Virtuoso |
| Hume, Tobias (d. 1645) | soldier of fortune, musician |
| Humphrys, Thomas (a. 1795) | hymnist |
| Hunnis, William (d. 1597 died: 1597) | poet, composer |
| Ingelo, Nathaniel (b. 1621 d. 1693) | divine, musician |
| Jackson, William (b. 1730 d. 1803) |
| Jamieson, Robert (b. 1780 d. 1844) | song compiler |
| Janes, Robert (b. 1806 d. 1866) | organ, composer |
| Jennings, Henry Constantine (b. 1731 d. 1919) | Virtuoso |
| Jones, Robert (a. 1616) | composer, poet |
| Kelly, Michael (b. 1762 d. 1826) | cantante, tenor |
| Kemp, Joseph (b. 1778 d. 1824) | composer, teacher |
| Kempthorne, John (b. 1775 d. 1838) | clergyman, hymn writer |
| Kent, James (b. 1700 d. 1776) | cathedral musician, composer |
| Kerr, Alexander (a. 1831) | songwriter |
| Kirbye, George (b. 1570 d. 1634 a. 1594) | composer, musician |
| Klose, Francis Joseph (b. 1784 d. 1830) | composer, writer |
| Latrobe, Christian Ignatius (b. 1758 d. 1836) | composer |
| Latrobe, John Antes (b. 1799 d. 1878) | writer on music |
| Law, Andrew (b. 1749 d. 1821) | teacher of singing, tunebook compiler |
| Lawes, Henry (b. 1596 d. 1662) | composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
| Lawes, William (b. 1582 d. 1645) | composer, musician |
| Lawson, Roderick (b. 1831) | lecturer, composer |
| Leveridge, Richard (b. -1671 d. 1758) | bass, vocals |
| Levy, Benjamin (b. 1811 d. 1875) | author, opera manager |
| Linley, Thomas (b. 1756 d. 1778) | violin, composer |
| Linley, Thomas (b. 1733 d. 1795) | composer, harpsichord |
| Linley, William (b. 1771 d. 1835) | composer, author |
| Linwood, Mary (b. 1755 d. 1845) | composer, needlework artist |
| Locke, Matthew (b. -1622 d. 1677) | composer |
| Lover, Samuel (b. 1797 d. 1868) | poet-musician, writer |
| Lowe, Edward (d. 1682) | composer, organ |
| Lunn, William Arthur Brown (d. 1879) | musician |
| Lyte, Henry Francis (b. 1793 d. 1847) | hymn writer |
| Mace, Thomas (b. 1619 d. 1709) | deaf musician |
| Maclagan, Alexander (b. 1811 d. 1879) | poet, songwriter |
| Mainzer, Joseph (b. 1801 d. 1851) | organ, music teacher |
| Malcolm, Alexander (b. 1685 d. 1763) | theorist, teacher |
| Marbeck, John (d. 1585) | musician, theologian |
| Marshall, William (b. 1806 d. 1875) | organ |
| Mason, George (a. 1615) | writer on music |
| Mason, William (b. 1719 d. 1791) | religious writer, hymnist |
| Miller, Edward (b. 1731 d. 1807) | organ, historian |
| Moor, James (b. 1712 d. 1779) | Greek composer |
| Moore, Henry (b. 1732 d. 1802) | minister, hymnist |
| Moore, J.S. (a. 1835) | Orthographer, ballad writer |
| Moore, Jacob Bailey (b. 1772 d. 1813) | surgeon, songwriter |
| Morley, Thomas (b. 1557) | composer, editor |
| Mornington, Garret Colley Wesley (b. 1735 d. 1781) | composer |
| Morris, Charles (b. 1745 d. 1838) | songwriter |
| Morris, Thomas (a. 1806) | captain, songwriter |
| Munroe, James | songbook compiler |
| Nairne (b. 1766 d. 1845) | composer, hymnologist |
| Nalson, Valentine (d. 1722) | organ, divine |
| Napier, Catherine (a. 1845) | ballad writer |
| Nares, James (b. 1715 d. 1783) | composer |
| Nathan, Isaac (b. 1790 d. 1864 a. 1841) | composer, tenor |
| Neate, Charles (b. 1784 d. 1877) | piano, cello |
| Neilson, W. (a. 1855) | Mesmerist, writer |
| Niven, John (a. 1845) | writer on music |
| Nixon, Henry (b. 1787 d. 1834) | writer on music, inventor |
| Novello, Vincent (b. 1781 d. 1861) | organ, conductor |
| Oliphant, Thomas (b. 1799 d. 1873) | musical author, editor |
| Olivers, Thomas [Oliver] (b. 1725 d. 1799) | preacher, hymnwriter |
| Oswald (a. 1750) | writer on music |
| Paine, D. (a. 1850) | writer on music |
| Parfre, Jhan (a. 1512) | copyist |
| Parke, William Thomas (b. 1762 d. 1847 a. 1796) | oboe, composer |
| Parker, Martin (a. 17th century |
Balladmonger |
| Parry, John (b. 1776 d. 1851) | instrumentalist, piano |
| Parry, John (b. 1810 d. 1879) | comic singer, piano |
| Parsons, Letitia (a. 1850) | hymnist |
| Patterson, John | writer on music |
| Payne, Christopher (a. 1565) | carol writer |
| Pearce, Samuel (a. 1776) | composer, hymnist |
| Pearce, Stephen James (a. 1865) | composer |
| Pearsall, Robert Lucas (b. 1795 d. 1856) | composer, antiquarian |
| Pearsall, Samuel (d. 1883) | tenor, hymnist |
| Peerson, Martin (b. -1573 d. 1651) | composer, virginal |
| Pegge, Samuel (b. 1733 d. 1800) | antiquary, poet |
| Perronet, Edward (b. 1726 d. 1792) | hymn writer, composer |
| Petre, William (a. 1610) | Elegist |
| Pettet, Alfred (a. 1828-1830) | music seller, publisher |
| Philips, Peter (a. 1580-1621) | composer |
| Phillips, Henry (b. 1801 d. 1876) | musician, Autobiographer |
| Phillips, J. (a. 1850-1855) | religious writer, hymnist |
| Phipson, Thomas Lamb (b. 1833) | geologist, musician |
| Pilkington, Francis (b. 1570 d. 1638 a. 1595) | lutenist, composer |
| Pilovius, Conrad (a. 1620) | Elegist |
| Pittman, Josiah (a. 1836) | organ, musician |
| Platt, Robert (a. 1845) | musician, writer |
| Pole, William (b. 1814 d. 1900) | civil engineer, scholar |
| Porter, Walter (b. 1595 d. 1659) | composer |
| Price, Laurence (a. 1625-1680) | ballad writer, satirist |
| Priest, William (a. 1790-1800) | musician, travel writer |
| Prynne, George Rundle (b. 1818 d. 1903) | hymn writer |
| Purcell, Henry (b. 1658 d. 1695) | composer |
| Purchas, Arthur Guyon (b. 1821 d. 1906 a. 1846) | clergyman, surgeon |
| Purday, Charles Henry (b. 1799 d. 1885) | composer, writer |
| Purdie, Thomas (a. 1845) | writer on music |
| Rackstraw, William Smyth (b. 1823 d. 1895) | musician, miscellaneous writer |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas (b. 1582 d. 1635) | editor, vocals |
| Redhead, Richard (b. 1820 d. 1901) | organ, composer |
| Relf, John (b. 1766 d. 1837) | teacher, composer |
| Richards, Brinley [Henry Brinley] (b. 1819 d. 1885) | piano, composer |
| Richardson, William (a. 1820) | Subchanter, sermonist |
| Rinks, C. (a. 1840) | composer |
| Rippon, John (b. 1751 d. 1836) | clergyman, composer |
| Robinson, Clement (a. 1566-1584) | songwriter |
| Robinson, Robert (b. 1735 d. 1790) | minister, hymn writer |
| Robinson, Thomas (a. 1588-1603) | lute, composer |
| Roby, John (b. 1793 d. 1850) | organ, author |
| Rodwell, George (Herbert Bonaparte) (b. 1800 d. 1852) | composer, playwright |
| Rogers, Benjamin (b. 1614 d. 1698) | organ, composer |
| Rohner, Georg Wilhelm (b. 1806 d. 1884 a. 1845-1854) | writer, composer |
| Romanis, William (a. 1863-1879) | vicar, hymnist |
| Romer, Francis (b. 1810 d. 1889) | writer, composer |
| Rosseter, Philip (b. 1567 d. 1623) | court musician, musicisti |
| Rowden, George Croke (b. 1820 d. 1863) | clergyman, divine |
| Russell, Henry (b. 1812 d. 1900) | composer, piano |
| Sale, John Bernard (b. 1779 d. 1856) | composer, bass |
| Saunders, J. (a. 1835) | poet, songwriter |
| Schiller, Henry Carl (b. 1807 d. 1871) | songwriter, novelist |
| Sedding, Edmund (b. 1836 d. 1868) | architect, musician |
| Sedgwick, Daniel (b. 1814) | hymnologist |
| Sempill, Robert (b. 1530 d. 1595) | ballad writer |
| Seymour, Aaron Crossly Hobart (b. 1789 d. 1870) | hymnologist, hymnist |
| Sharp, John W. (b. 1817 d. 1856) | comic singer |
| Shaw, Oliver (b. 1779 d. 1848) | organ, singer |
| Sheldon, Frederick (a. 1845) | writer on minstrelsy |
| Shelmerdine, William (d. 1893) | organ, conductor |
| Shield, William (b. 1748 d. 1829) | theater composer |
| Shirley, Walter (b. 1725 d. 1786) | hymn writer |
| Shrubsole, William (b. 1759 d. 1829) | missionary secretary, hymn writer |
| Sicama, A. (a. 1845) | writer on music |
| Sime, David (b. 1756 d. 1807) | editor, compiler |
| Simeon of Durham (a. 1130) | Precentor, historical compiler |
| Simms, Arthur (b. 1839 d. 1914) | organ, composer |
| Simpson, Christopher (b. 1605 d. 1669) | guitar, theorist |
| Skeffington, T.C. (a. 1858) | vicar, writer on music |
| Skinner, James (b. 1818 d. 1881) | theological writer, hymn writer |
| Skinner, John (b. 1721 d. 1807) | lyricist, songwriter |
| Small, James (b. 1759 d. 1834) | hymnist |
| Smart, Henry Thomas (b. 1813 d. 1879) | organ, composer |
| Smith, George (b. 1803 d. 1870) | clergyman, hymnist |
| Smith, John (a. 1853) | writer on music |
| Smith, John Stafford (b. 1750 d. 1836) | musicologist, composer |
| Smith, Joshua | hymnist |
| Smith, Lydia B. (a. 1835) | poet, song compiler |
| Smith, William (b. 1754 d. 1821) | divine, musician |
| Smyth, W.H. (a. 1865) | organ |
| Somerford, Thomas (a. 1860) | hymnist |
| Spencer, Charles Child (b. 1797 d. 1869) | piano, writer |
| Stafford, William Cooke (b. 1793 d. 1876) | musician, newspaper editor |
| Stanley, John (b. 1712 d. 1786) | composer, organ |
| Steele, Anne (b. 1717 d. 1778) | hymnist |
| Stevens, Richard John Samuel (b. 1757 d. 1837) | composer, musician |
| Stevens, William Seaman (b. 1778 a. 1795-1830) | musician, navigational writer |
| Stevenson, John (Andrew) (b. 1761 d. 1833) | composer |
| Stirling, William (b. 1818 d. 1878) | historical water, Virtuoso |
| Stocker, John (a. 1776-1777) | hymnologist, hymnist |
| Stone, Samuel John (b. 1839 d. 1900) | clergyman, hymnist |
| Stone, William Henry (b. 1830 d. 1891) | physician, amateur musician |
| Stratford, Elizabeth (b. 1828 d. 1868) | children's writer, hymnist |
| Sturge, H.J. (a. 1855) | children's hymnist |
| Sullivan, Arthur (Seymour) (b. 1842) | author, composer |
| Surenne, Gabriel (a. 1817) | musician, linguist |
| Surenne, John Thomas (b. 1816 d. 1878) | organ, editor |
| Swain, Joseph (b. 1761 d. 1796) | hymnist Preacher |
| Swan, Timothy (b. 1758 d. 1842) | composer, musician |
| Symmers, James (a. 1849) | rector, writer on music |
| Tailboys, Samuel (a. 1620) | Elegist |
| Tallis, Thomas (b. 1505 d. 1585) | composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
| Tannahill, Robert (b. 1774 d. 1810) | poet, songwriter |
| Taylor, Clare (a. 1869) | hymnist |
| Taylor, Edward (b. 1784 d. 1864) | professor of music |
| Thomas, John (b. 1826 d. 1913) | composer, harp |
| Thomson, Andrew C. (b. 1917) | composer, teacher |
| Thomson, George (b. 1757 d. 1851 a. 1793-1845) | collector of Scotch, Welsh and Irish Airs |
| Thomson, John (b. 1805 d. 1841) | composer, writer on music |
| Thomson, William (b. 1677) | music publisher, editor |
| Thorne, Edward Henry (b. 1834 d. 1916) | organ, composer |
| Thring, Godfrey (b. 1823 d. 1903) | hymnologist |
| Tilleard, James (b. 1827 d. 1876) | editor, composer |
| Tomkins, Thomas (d. 1656) | musician |
| Townsend (a. 1860) | writer on music |
| Travers, John (b. 1703 d. 1758) | organ, composer |
| Tuday, Thomas (a. 1671-1705) | organ, composer |
| Turle, James (b. 1802 d. 1882) | organ, composer |
| Turner, Daniel (b. 1710 d. 1798) | pastor, hymnist |
| Turner, John (a. 1833-1844) | writer on music |
| Turton, Thomas (b. 1780 d. 1864) | Bishop, composer |
| Tuthill, Jane Anne Villiers (a. 1850) | songwriter |
| Tuttiett, Lawrence (b. 1825 d. 1897) | hymnist |
| Tye, Christopher (b. 1505 d. 1580) | composer, musician |
| Tyson, A.G. (a. 1852) | Stenographer, writer on music |
| Valentine, John (a. 1830) | composer |
| Vautor, Thomas (b. 1580 a. 1600-1620) | madrigalist, musician |
| Veal, George (b. 1740 d. 1787) | musician |
| Wainwright, Harriet (b. 1780 d. 1840) | writer, composer |
| Wakefield, Benjamin (a. 1745) | song compiler |
| Walker, G. (a. 1855) | writer on music |
| Wallace, Vincent [William Vincent] (b. 1812 d. 1865) | composer |
| Ward, John (a. 1613) | composer |
| Waring, Anna Laetitia (b. 1823 d. 1910) | hymnist |
| Warren, Joseph (b. 1804 d. 1881) | organ, writer on music |
| Warren, Thomas [Edmond Thomas] (b. 1730 d. 1794) | collector, editor |
| Watson, Alexander (b. 1744 d. 1831) | deacon, tailor |
| Watson, Thomas (b. 1557 d. 1592) | man of letters, poet |
| Watts, Isaac (b. 1674 d. 1748) | hymn writer, miscellaneous writer |
| Webb, Richard (d. 1829) | clergyman, composer |
| Webbe, Samuel (b. 1740 d. 1816) | composer, organ |
| Webbe, Samuel (b. 1770 d. 1843) | organ, composer |
| Weber, F. (a. 1898) | orchestra musician, song compiler |
| Weber, J. (a. 1855) | hymnist |
| Weber, J.R. (a. 1860) | writer on singing, translator |
| Weelkes, Thomas (b. 1578 d. 1640) | composer, musician |
| Wehran, August Heinrich (a. 1850) | writer on music |
| Weldon, John (d. 1736) | organ |
| Wesley, Charles (b. 1707 d. 1788) | divine, hymn writer |
| Wesley, Charles (b. 1757 d. 1834) | composer, musician |
| Wesley, Samuel (b. 1766 d. 1837) | composer, organ |
| Wesley, Samuel Sebastian (b. 1810 d. 1876) | composer, organ |
| West, Henry (a. 1846) | composer, writer |
| Westhorp, Wilham (a. 19th century |
hymnist |
| Westlake, Frederick (b. 1840 d. 1898) | piano, composer |
| Westlake, Thomas (a. 1800) | hymnist |
| Westrop, East John (b. 1804 d. 1856) | composer, editor |
| Westrop, Thomas (b. 1816 d. 1881) | organ, piano |
| Wetherell, William (b. 1600 d. 1684) | minister, Elegist |
| Weyman, David (b. 1771 d. 1822 a. 1812) | vicar choral, psalmodist |
| Whitehead, Thomas (a. 1790) | musician, biographer |
| Whitfield, Frederick (b. 1829 d. 1904) | vicar, hymn writer |
| Whithorne, Thomas (b. 1530) | musical amateur |
| Whiting, Virginia (a. 1850) | singer, schoolmaster |
| Whittingham, Richard (a. 1800) | clergyman, hymnist |
| Wigan, Arthur Cleveland (b. 1815) | writer, composer |
| Wilbye, John (b. 1574 d. 1638 a. 1598) | composer, musician |
| Willard, N. Augustus (a. 1834) | writer on music, captain |
| Willard, Samuel (b. 1776 d. 1859) | composer, Pastor |
| Williams, Morgan (a. 1820) | song compiler |
| Williams, Sarah Jane (d. 1986) | musicologist, writer on music |
| Williams, William (b. 1717 d. 1791) | Welsh hymnist |
| Willing, Christopher Edwin (b. 1830 d. 1904) | composer, organ |
| Willis (a. 1835) | composer |
| Williston, Ralph (a. 1805) | Pastor, hymnist |
| Wilson, George (b. 1784 d. 1857) | cabinet maker, poet |
| Wilson, James W. (a. 1835) | musician, editor |
| Wilson, John (b. 1595 d. 1674) | lutenist |
| Wilson, John (b. 1800 d. 1849) | vocals, singer |
| Wilson, M. (a. 19th century |
composer |
| Wilson, W. (a. 1860) | composer |
| Wilson, William (a. 1830) | writer on music |
| Wise, Michael (b. 1647 d. 1687) | composer, musician |
| Wishartt, William (a. 1640) | hymn writer |
| Wolfe, Arthur (b. 1819 d. 1892) | clergyman, hymnist |
| Wood, J.F. (a. 1845) | songwriter |
| Woodd, Basil (b. 1760 d. 1831) | hymn writer |
| Woodman, Woodville (b. 1805 d. 1872) | minister, biographer |
| Wordsworth, William Adam (d. 1846) | musician, teacher |
| Worgan, George (b. 1802 d. 1888) | composer, musician |
| Worgan, Thomas Danvers (b. 1774 d. 1832) | composer, theorist |
| Wright, Adam (b. 1810) | organ, composer |
| Wright, George Farncomb (a. 1855) | mathematical master, writer on music |
| Wright, John Preston (a. 1865) | songwriter |
| Wylde, Henry (b. 1822 d. 1890) | professor of music |
| Wylie, R.W. (a. 1855) | writer on music |
| Wythorne, Thomas (a. 1570) | composer |
| Yonge, Nicholas (d. 1619 a. 1588-1597) | music editor, singer |
| Youll, Henry (a. 1608) | madrigalist, musician |
| Young, Edward (b. 1800 d. 1890) | clergyman, composer |