| William Byrd | 1543-1623 | |
| John Bull | 1562-1628 | |
| Thomas Tomkins | 1572-1656 | |
| Orlando Gibbons | 1583-1625 | |
| Matthew Locke | 1622-1677 | |
| John Blow | 1649-1708 | |
| Henry Purcell | 1659-1695 | |
| John Travers | 1703-1758 | |
| Thomas Arne | 1710-1778 | |
| William Boyce | 1711-1779 | |
| John Stanley | 1712-1786 | |
| William Wallond | 1725-1770 | |
| Samuel Wesley | 1766-1837 | |
| William Russell | 1777-1813 | |
| William Thomas Best | 1826-1897 | |
| Charles Hubert Hastings Parry | 1848-1918 | |
| Edward Elgar | 1857-1934 | |
| Ethel Mary Smyth | 1858-1944 | |
| Edwin Henry Lemare | 1865-1934 | |
| John Ireland | 1879-1962 | |
| Herbert Norman Howells | 1892-1983 | |
| George Thalben-Ball | 1896-1987 | |
| Kenneth Leighton | 1929-1988 | |
| Howard Blake | 1938- | |
| Brian Ferneyhough | 1943- |