Short Name: | James T. Lightwood |
Full Name: | Lightwood, James T. (James Thomas), 1856-1944 |
Birth Year: | 1856 |
Death Year: | 1944 |
Born: 1856, Leeds, England.
Died: 1944, Lytham, Lancashire, England.
Son of Wesleyan minister Edward Lightwood, James was born and baptized while his father was on the Leeds Brunswick Circuit. He attended Kingswood School (1866-72), earned a BA from London University, and became Headmaster of Pembroke House, a private school in Lytham. He went on to serve for three years as a member of the Board of Improvement Commissioners in Lytham, on the Lytham Council for six years, and as Chairman of the Streets Committee for four years. His resolution to bring gas into Fairhaven was eventually carried by one vote. Apart from music, his other great love was cycling. He began cycling in 1874 on a "boneshaker." By 1885, he was a member of the Cyclists Touring Club (CTC), and soon gained prominence. He was Chief Consul for Lancashire, and a member of the Council of the CTC from 1887. Honorary life membership came in 1907 in recognition of his services to the club, and in particular with publication of the club’s route books and other writings.
Music was his great love, though, and hymnody in particular. He was an accomplished organist, and after two years as deputy organist at the Drive Wesleyan Church, St. Annes, he was appointed Honorary Organist and Choirmaster in 1894. When the pressure of work due to his appointment as editor of the new Methodist publication The Choir and organizing the newly formed Music Department of the Methodist Publishing House, the trustees at Drive Church made him a grant of £20 to assist him in his research in hymnology. While advising Methodism on musical matters, he found the unique 1761 Snetzler organ for the New Room at Bristol.
Lightwood’s works include:
Hymn Tunes and Their Story (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1905)
Charles Dickens and Music, 1912
Samuel Wesley, Musician: The Story of His Life
Cyclists’ Touring Club: The Romance of 50 Years Cycling, 1928
The Music of the Methodist Hymn-Book (London: The Epworth Press, 1935)
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/g/lightwood_jt.htm
Tunes by James T. Lightwood (13) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[A cry as of pain, again and again] (Lightwood) | J. T. Lightwood (Composer) | 2 | 33213 34323 33721 |
BARTON (Lightwood) | James T. Lightwood (Composer) | 3 | 35676 57322 11171 |
BOLTON (Lightwood) | J. T. Lightwood, 1856- (Composer) | 2 | 53333 21176 51123 |
BURTON (Lightwood) | James T. Lightwood (Composer) | 2 | 32155 17765 43222 |
FYLDE | J. T. Lightwood (Composer) | 7 | 15135 51513 54326 |
HOLMBRIDGE | James T. Lightwood (Composer) | 3 | 55321 17653 21254 |
LITTLE BIRDS | Jas. T. Lightwood (Composer) | 2 | 53333 23442 34665 |
LYTHAM (Lightwood) | James Thomas Lightwood, 1850-1944 (Composer) | 6 | 32151 17765 6712 |
LYTHAM ST. ANNES | James T. Lightwood (Composer) | 3 | 56713 54316 65554 |
[A little ship was on the sea] (Lightwood) | James Thomas Lightwood (Composer) | 5 | 12343 21123 33212 |
[Round me falls the night] | J. T. Lightwood (Composer) | 2 | |
[When our hearts are glad and light] | J. T. Lightwood (Composer) | 3 | 55663 45234 41233 |
[Chant] (Lightwood 33211) | J. T. Lightwood (Composer) | 2 | 33211 61433 22321 |