English composers, listed by birth year

1365

• John Forest

1375

• Oliver
• Leonel Power

1390

• Thomas Damett
• John Dunstable

1400

• Richard Smert

1410

• John Plummer

1430

• William Horwood
• Robert Morton

1445

• Edmund Turges

1450

• Walter Lambe

1464

• Robert Fayrfax

1465

• Richard Davy

1475

• Robert Wylkynson

1482

• Richard Pygott

1485

• Hugh Aston

1488

• Thomas Appleby

1490

• Robert Barber (I)
• Nicholas Ludford
• John Taverner

1491

• Henry VIII

1500

• Thomas Wright (I)

1505

• John Merbecke
• Thomas Tallis
• Christopher Tye

1511

• Osbert Parsley

1515

• William Parsons I
• John Sheppard

1516

• Robert Stone

1519

• John Thorne

1524

• Richard Edwards

1525

• John Blitheman
• Thomas Causton

1528

• Thomas Whythorne

1529

• William Mundy

1530

• Richard Farrant
• Robert Parsons

1538

• Robert White

1540

• William Byrd

1549

• Edward Johnson

1550

• John Mundy

1553

• Edmund Hooper

1555

• George Barcrofte
• Elway Bevin

1557

• Thomas Morley

1558

• Richard Carlton
• Nathaniel Giles

1560

• Richard Allison
• John Baldwin
• William Cobbold

1561

• Peter Philips

1562

• John Bull

1563

• John Dowland
• Giles Farnaby
• John Milton the elder

1565

• Michael Cavendish
• George Kirbye
• William Leighton
• Francis Pilkington

1567

• Thomas Campion

1568

• Philip Rosseter

1569

• John Hilton the elder
• Nathaniel Patrick

1570

• John Farmer
• Thomas Greaves
• Richard Nicholson

1571

• Thomas Lupo the elder
• John Ward

1572

• Martin Peerson
• Thomas Tomkins

1573

• Ellis Gibbons
• Henry Youll

1574

• John Wilbye

1575

• Thomas Bateson
• John Bennet

1576

• Thomas Weelkes

1577

• Robert Jones

1579

• John Amner

1580

• Michael East
• Thomas Ford
• John Lugge

1583

• Orlando Gibbons
• Robert Johnson II

1585

• William Stonard

1588

• Walter Porter

1590

• Robert Ramsey
• Thomas Vautor

1591

• Adrian Batten

1592

• John Jenkins
• Thomas Ravenscroft

1595

• Henry Lawes
• John Wilson

1597

• Henry Molle

1599

• John Hilton the younger

1600

• John Geeres
• Simon Ives
• Henry Loosemore
• William Smegergill

1602

• William Lawes

1603

• William Smith

1606

• William Child

1610

• George Jeffreys
• Richard Portman

1611

• Thomas Brewer

1614

• Benjamin Rogers

1615

• Christopher Gibbons

1618

• Thomas Wilson

1619

• George Loosemore

1621

• Albertus Bryne
• Matthew Locke

1622

• Edward Coleman

1623

• John Playford

1626

• Richard Ayleward
• John Ferrabosco

1630

• John Banister

1639

• Robert Creighton

1647

• Henry Aldrich
• Pelham Humfrey

1648

• John Blow
• Michael Wise

1651

• William Turner

1654

• John Connould

1656

• Henry Hall

1657

• John Lenton

1658

• Humphrey Brailsford

1659

• Nicholas Brady
• Henry Purcell

1660

• Daniel Purcell

1661

• John Eccles

1662

• James Hawkins

1665

• John Bishop
• John Chetham

1667

• John Goldwin

1670

• Richard Leveridge
• Vaughan Richardson

1674

• Jeremiah Clarke

1675

• John Church
• Raphael Courteville

1676

• Robert King
• John Weldon

1678

• William Croft

1680

• John Isum

1682

• John Robinson

1685

• George Frideric Handel
• John Reading

1687

• Henry Carey
• Francesco Geminiani
• Charles King

1688

• John Scheeles

1690

• Robert Barber
• Uriah Davenport
• William Wheal

1693

• Henry Holcombe

1695

• Thomas Kelway

1696

• Maurice Greene

1698

• William Knapp

1700

• James Kent
• William Tansur

1702

• Israel Holdroyd

1703

• John Travers

1707

• Edward Harwood

1708

• William Hayes

1709

• Charles Avison

1710

• Thomas Arne
• Samuel Howard

1711

• William Boyce

1712

• John Christopher Smith
• John Stanley

1713

• James Corfe

1715

• John Alcock Sr.
• William Felton
• Thomas Jackson
• James Nares

1717

• John Randall

1719

• John Broderip

1720

• John Arnold
• Thomas Barrow

1721

• John Garth

1723

• Joseph Stephenson
• John Wainwright

1724

• William Crowfoot

1725

• Charles Collignon
• Samuel Long
• William Mason

1726

• William Jones
• Martin Madan

1727

• Joseph Baildon
• Henry Harington

1728

• Phocion Henley

1730

• Theodore Aylward
• Capel Bond
• William Jackson of Exeter
• Richard Langdon
• Edward Mulso
• John Valentine

1731

• John Darwall
• Benjamin Milgrove

1732

• Robert Hudson

1733

• Thomas Sanders Dupuis
• Thomas Linley the elder

1734

• Benjamin Cooke
• Thomas Haweis
• Stephen Paxton

1735

• Johann Christian Bach
• Edward Miller
• Lord Mornington

1737

• William Paxton
• Thomas Tremain
• Joseph Vernon

1738

• Jonathan Battishill
• Thomas Ebdon
• Philip Hayes
• William Herschel

1740

• John Alcock Jr.
• Michael Arne
• Samuel Arnold
• Luffman Atterbury
• William Benson Earle
• Samuel Webbe

1741

• Joseph Corfe
• Thomas Norris

1743

• Richard Woodward

1745

• Charles Dibdin
• Charles Lockhart

1746

• James Hook

1748

• Ralph Harrison
• William Shield
• Robert Wainwright

1749

• John Percy

1750

• John Christmas Beckwith
• Peter Fussell
• John Stafford Smith

1752

• John Foster
• John Marsh

1754

• Thomas Billington

1755

• Mary Hudson

1756

• Thomas Linley the younger

1757

• John Danby
• Richard John Samuel Stevens
• Charles Wesley, Jr.

1758

• Harriett Abrams
• Matthew Camidge
• John Sale
• Richard Taylor

1759

• Thomas Shoel

1760

• Samuel Harrison
• John Jenkins Husband
• Maria Hester Park
• William Shrubsole

1761

• Matthew Cooke
• Stephen Jarvis
• James Leach

1762

• Stephen Storace

1763

• John Davy
• Thomas Wright

1764

• Joseph William Holder
• John Moreton

1765

• Thomas Attwood
• Ozias Thurston Linley
• William Perry
• Thomas Purday

1766

• John Wall Callcott
• Samuel Wesley

1767

• Samuel Stanley
• William Thorn

1768

• Robert Cooke

1769

• Richard Partridge

1770

• John Clarke-Whitfeld
• William Gardiner
• Reginald Spofforth
• Samuel Webbe Jr.

1771

• William Linley
• Jacob Cubitt Pring

1772

• Legh Richmond

1773

• Matthew King

1774

• William Horsley
• John Massey

1775

• Samuel Chapple
• Thomas Clark
• William Crotch
• Zechariah Whelpdale

1776

• Robert Philip Goodenough
• Thomas Jarman
• George Thomas Smart
• John Whitaker
• James William Windsor

1777

• Charles William Hempel
• William Russell

1780

• Thomas Turton

1781

• Vincent Francis Novello

1784

• William Beale
• Thomas Hastings

1785

• John Eagleton
• Henry Searle
• Thomas Forbes Walmisley
• John Bernard Wilkes

1786

• Henry Rowley Bishop
• Charles Edward Horn

1787

• Samuel Wakely

1789

• John Fawcett
• Richard Garbett

1790

• John Camidge
• George Maximilian Slatter
• William Viner

1793

• William Henry Havergal

1795

• Robert Lucas Pearsall

1796

• Bennett Mintern Swaffield

1797

• Thomas Bayley
• Charles William Glover

1799

• Alexander Robert Reinagle

1800

• Thomas Campbell (composer)
• John Goss
• Joel Thorne

1802

• John Newton
• James Turle

1803

• George J. Webb

1804

• George Kiallmark
• James Shoubridge

1805

• Henry J. Gauntlett

1807

• William Hutchins Callcott

1808

• Thomas à Becket
• Frederick N Crouch

1809

• John Liptrot Hatton

1810

• Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1811

• Ann Sheppard Mounsey Bartholomew

1812

• John Hullah
• Kellow John Pye

1813

• George Alexander Macfarren
• Henry Thomas Smart

1814

• Thomas Attwood Walmisley

1815

• Henry Hugh Pierson

1816

• William Sterndale Bennett
• George J. Elvey
• Edward Francis Rimbault

1818

• Edward John Hopkins
• Henry Cood Watson

1819

• Edwin George Monk
• Elizabeth Stirling

1820

• George Cooper I
• Henry L. Jenner
• Richard Redhead

1821

• Henry Williams Baker
• George Augustus Löhr
• Clara Angela Macirone
• W.A. Morfey

1822

• George Benjamin Allen
• Charles Edward Horsley
• Henry David Leslie

1823

• Theodore Distin
• John Bacchus Dykes
• William Henry Monk
• William Smith Rockstro

1824

• William Amps
• James Coward

1825

• Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley

1826

• Henry Hiles
• Henry Lahee
• Walter Cecil Macfarren
• Timothy Richard Matthews
• Charles Steggall

1827

• John Baptiste Calkin
• Joseph Francis Thrupp
• George Tolhurst

1828

• Walter Cecil Hay
• Samuel Reay

1829

• David Colville

1830

• Charlotte Alington Barnard
• Arthur Henry Brown
• Herbert Stanley Oakeley
• Christopher Edwin Willing

1831

• William Hayman Cummings
• William Joseph Westbrook

1832

• William D. V. Duncombe

1833

• James William Elliott
• William Bennett Ninnis

1834

• Sabine Baring-Gould
• William Alexander Barrett
• Francesco Berger
• Edward Bunnett
• George M. Garrett
• Herbert Stephen Irons
• Edward Henry Thorne

1835

• Henry Balfour Gardiner
• James Langran
• Ebenezer Prout
• George William Torrance

1836

• Philip Armes
• Leighton George Hayne

1837

• Ethelbert William Bullinger
• Oswald Mosley Feilden
• Alfred Robert Gaul
• Edward Vine Hall
• Maria Tiddeman
• James Walch

1838

• Joseph Barnby
• Sydney Bevan
• Gerard Francis Cobb
• John Naylor
• Berthold Tours

1839

• Seymour John Grey Egerton
• Clement Cotterill Scholefield
• Alice Mary Smith

1840

• Hamilton Clarke
• Robert Jackson
• John Stainer

1841

• Stephen Adams
• James R. Murray
• Walter Parratt
• John Varley Roberts

1842

• Alfred James Caldicott
• Oliveria Prescott
• Arthur Sullivan

1843

• Florence Ashton Marshall
• Joseph Summers

1844

• John Frederick Bridge
• Frederick Charles Maker
• George Clement Martin
• Albert Lister Peace
• Alfred William Phillips

1845

• Reginald Francis Dale
• Francis Edward Gladstone
• Charles King Hall
• Ebenezer Minshall
• Harry Ellis Wooldridge

1846

• Robert Brisco Earée
• George Herbert Palmer
• Charles Wenham Smith
• Francesco Paolo Tosti

1847

• Frederick Iliffe
• Edwin Augustus Sydenham
• Herbert Hall Woodward
• Agnes Zimmermann

1848

• Francis Champneys
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
• Richard Strutt
• George Ratcliffe Woodward

1849

• Henry Coward
• Charles Harford Lloyd

1850

• Joseph Eaton Faning
• John Thomas Field
• James Proctor Harding
• Arthur Henry Mann
• Arthur William Marchant

1851

• Myles Birket Foster

1852

• Josiah Booth
• Arthur Carnall
• Frederick Corder
• Frederic Hymen Cowen
• Charles Villiers Stanford
• Charles Vincent
• Charles L. Williams

1853

• Alfred James Eyre
• Bertram Luard-Selby
• Edward Cockram Purcell

1855

• Arthur Berridge
• Alan Gray
• Oliver Arthur King

1856

• Richard Harvey Löhr
• Caleb Simper

1857

• Thomas Adams
• Edward Elgar
• Herbert Walter Wareing

1858

• Frank Adlam
• John Henry Maunder
• John Churchill Sibley
• Ethel Smyth

1859

• Basil Harwood
• Walter Battison Haynes
• Charles John King

1860

• Percy Jackman
• Marie Wurm

1861

• Walter Galpin Alcock
• Henry Elliot Button
• William Sewell

1862

• John Post Attwater
• Frederick Delius
• Francis Duckworth
• Edward German
• Robert George Thompson

1863

• Ethel Mary Boyce
• Thomas Merritt
• Arthur Somervell
• Edward Sweeting
• John Ebenezer West

1864

• Hugh Blair

1865

• Herbert Brewer
• Ernest A. Dicks
• Alfred Hollins
• Edwin Henry Lemare
• Richard R. Terry
• William Wolstenholme

1866

• Arthur Murray Goodhart
• Frederick James Gostelow
• Edgar Pettman
• Bruce Steane
• Charles Wood

1867

• Arnold Duncan Culley
• Edward Woodall Naylor
• T. Tertius Noble
• Reginald Somerville
• Amherst Webber

1868

• Granville Bantock
• Ferris Tozer

1869

• Henry Walford Davies
• Arthur Charles Edwards
• Harry Fragson
• Charles Legh Naylor

1870

• Henry Bird Collins
• Cuthbert Harris
• Charles Macpherson
• Ernest Walker

1871

• Percy Buck

1872

• Jack Judge
• Ralph Vaughan Williams

1873

• William Henry Bell
• John Hughes

1874

• Edward Bairstow
• William Harold Ferguson
• Gustav Holst
• Charles Herbert Kitson
• Ernest Markham Lee

1875

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
• George Talbot
• George Coleman Young

1876

• William Whittaker

1877

• Walter Greatorex
• Roger Quilter

1878

• Herbert Sanders

1879

• Frank Bridge
• Francis Burgess
• Henry Cope Colles
• Percy Eastman Fletcher
• John Ireland
• Geoffrey Shaw

1880

• Healey Willan

1882

• Herbert Hughes
• Easthope Martin
• Frederick William Wadely
• Arthur Warrell

1883

• George Dyson
• Stanley Marchant

1884

• Charles Hylton Stewart

1885

• George Butterworth
• Ernest Farrar

1887

• Henry Ley
• George Oldroyd

1888

• Maurice Besly
• William Denis Browne
• Harold Darke

1889

• Heathcote Statham

1892

• Herbert Howells

1894

• Ernest John Moeran
• Peter Warlock

1899

• William Baines

1903

• Percy Whitlock

1904

• Doris Arnold

1907

• Norman Tomblin

1909

• Herbert Murrill

1922

• Peter Tranchell

1928

• James Gordon

1930

• Percy Snowdon

1931

• John Bertalot

1936

• John Earwaker

1937

• Thomas McLelland-Young

1939

• William Armiger
• Michael Gibson

1940

• Alan Knight

1941

• John Kilpatrick

1942

• Douglas Brooks-Davies

1943

• Martin Johnson

1944

• James Gibb
• John S. Wilson

1945

• Charles West

1948

• Oliver Barton
• Tim Porter

1949

• Peter Dyson
• Jason Smart

1950

• John J. Brackenborough
• Peter William John Kirk
• Malcolm Pearce

1952

• Steve Draper
• Robert Page
• David Protheroe
• Peter Smith
• John Whittaker

1953

• Geoff Allan
• Geoffrey Lester
• Mick Swithinbank

1954

• Jeremy Rawson

1955

• Robert Hugill
• Richard Irwin
• Jonathan Merrett
• F. L. Dunkin Wedd

1956

• Chris Dell
• David M Howard

1958

• Nick Austin
• Philip Le Bas
• Tim Pratt

1962

• Ben Heffer
• Andrew Sims

1963

• Simon Shaw
• Roger Teichmann

1967

• John Brown
• Paul King

1969

• Alec D. Jackson
• Gavin Skinner

1970

• Adrian Wall

1972

• David Allinson

1973

• Colin Davey
• Oliver Hayes

1974

• Richard Eldon Barber
• Mark Liversidge

1975

• Alastair Stout

1977

• Richard Quesnel
• Matthew Schellhorn
• Richard Shakeshaft

1979

• Christopher Upton

1980

• Christopher Hampson

1981

• Jonathan P. Eyre
• Toby Wardman

1982

• Matthew Kirk
• Peter Reid

1984

• Peter Macintosh
• Daniel Trott

1985

• Matthew J C Ward
• Andrew Wilshere

1986

• Philip Lawton

1988

• Edward Tambling

1989

• Frances Matthews

1990

• Antonio Cosimetti

1991

• Bruce Michez

1992

• Sam Landman

1994

• David Passmore

1995

• Francis Melville

1996

• Caroline Lesemann-Elliott

1999

• Harry Boulton