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List of musicians at English cathedrals#Westminster Abbey

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The following list contains information about organists at Church of England cathedrals in England.

The cathedrals of England have a long history of liturgical music, often played on or accompanied by the organ. The role of the cathedral organist is a salaried appointment, the organist often also serving as choirmaster. There is often also an assistant organist and an organ scholar.

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Birmingham, St Philip's Cathedral

Organists at St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham have included composers Charles John Blood Meacham, Richard Yates Mander and Rupert Jeffcoat.

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Blackburn Cathedral

Notable organists at Blackburn Cathedral have included Charles Hylton Stewart, John Bertalot and Gordon Stewart.

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  • 2022- John Hosking (formerly Director of Music, Holy Trinity, Southport)

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  • Justin Waters
  • James Thomas
  • Benjamin Saunders
  • Robert Costin
  • David Goodenough
  • Tim Cooke
  • 2000–2006 Greg Morris
  • 2006–2012 James Davy
  • 2012–2021 Shaun Turnbull

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Bradford Cathedral

Organists at Bradford Cathedral have included the following.

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  • c1861–1893 Absalom Rawnsley Swaine
  • 1893–1939 Henry Coates
  • 1939–1963 Charles Hooper
  • 1963–1981 Keith Vernon Rhodes
  • 1982–1986 Geoffrey John Weaver
  • 1986–2002 Alan Graham Horsey
  • 2003–2011 Andrew Teague

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  • 2012–2016 Alexander Woodrow
  • 2017– 2023 Alexander Berry
  • 2023 - Graham Thorpe

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=Cathedral Organist=

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=Sub-Organist & Assistant Director of Music=

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  • 1957-1960 Charles Edmondson
  • 1984-2004 Martin Derek Baker
  • 1997-2000 Jonathan Kingston
  • 2004-2011 Paul Bowen
  • 2009-2012 David Condry
  • 2012-2016 Jonathan Eyre
  • 2016-2018 Jon Payne
  • 2019-2023 Graham Thorpe
  • 2023-2024 Anthony Gray
  • 2025 - William Campbell

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=Associate Organist=

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  • 2018–2019 Ed Jones {{div col end}}

Bristol Cathedral

Organists at Bristol Cathedral have included the writer and composer Percy Buck and the conductor Malcolm Archer.

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  • 1542 Thomas Denny
  • 1588 Elway Bevin
  • 1638 Arthur Phillips
  • 1639 Thomas Deane
  • 1680 Paul Heath
  • 1724 Nathaniel Priest
  • 1734 James Morley
  • 1756 George Coombes
  • 1759 Edward Higgins
  • 1765 George Coombes
  • 1769 Edward Rooke
  • 1773 Samuel Mineard
  • 1778 Richard Langdon
  • 1781 Rice Wasbrough
  • 1825 John Davies Corfe
  • 1876 George Riseley
  • 1899 Percy Carter Buck
  • 1901 Hubert Hunt
  • 1946 Reginald Alwyn Surplice
  • 1949 Clifford Harker
  • 1983 Malcolm Archer
  • 1990 Christopher Brayne
  • 1998 Mark Lee

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=Assistant Organists=

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  • 1856–1860 John Barrett
  • 1862–1876 George Riseley
  • Albert Edward New
  • 1888–1892 J.H. Fulford
  • 1902 Arthur S. Warrell
  • 1920–1941 Geoffrey Leonard Mendham
  • 1956-1959 Lionel Pike
  • Stephen Taylor
  • John Jenkin
  • 1980–1986 Martin Schellenberg (later Director of Music of Christchurch Priory)
  • 1986–1989 Tony Pinel
  • 1989–1991 Claire Hobbs
  • 1991–1994 Ian Ball
  • 1994–2001 David Hobourn
  • 2001– Paul Walton

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Canterbury Cathedral

Organists and Assistant Organists at Canterbury Cathedral have included composers Clement Charlton Palmer, Gerald Hocken Knight and Philip Moore and musical directors Sidney Campbell, Allan Wicks and Stephen Darlington.Toby Huitson, The Organs of Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury: Cathedral Enterprises, Ltd., 2001. {{ISBN|0-906211-51-4}}.Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 276.

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  • 1836 William Henry Longhurst
  • 1873 John Browning Lott
  • 1875 Yoku Myles Bossman
  • 1884 Herbert Austin Fricker
  • 1892 J. Sterndale Grundy
  • 1906 W. T. Harvey
  • 1909 Frank Charles Butcher
  • 1918 Rene SoamesWho's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 197.
  • 1926 ?
  • 1936 Henry Frank Cole
  • 1938 ?
  • 1953 John Malcolm Tyler
  • 1956 Gwilym Isaac
  • 1964 Stephen Crisp
  • 1968 Philip Moore
  • 1974 Stephen Darlington
  • 1978 David Flood
  • 1986 Michael Harris
  • 1997 Timothy Noon
  • 2001 Matthew Martin
  • 2005 Robert Patterson
  • 2008 John Robinson
  • 2010 Simon Lawford (acting)
  • 2011 David Newsholme
  • 2020 Adrian Bawtree (acting)
  • 2022 Jamie Rogers

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=Second Assistant Organists=

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  • 2015 Adrian Bawtree
  • 2020 Jamie Rogers (acting)
  • 2022 Adrian Bawtree
  • 2022 Robin Walker

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Carlisle Cathedral

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Notable organists at Carlisle Cathedral have included the composer, astronomer and mathematician Thomas Greatorex and founder of the Royal School of Church Music, Sir Sydney Nicholson.

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  • 1900–1902 Stanley G. P. Stubbs (later Acting Organist)
  • 1915–1919 Charles Frederick Eastwood
  • 1932–1934 G. F. Stuart
  • 1940–1945 Keith Burton-NicksonWho's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 31.
  • William L. Snowdon
  • Ifor James
  • 1970–1973 Christopher Rathbone
  • 1974–1985 Hugh Davies
  • 1985–1987 Andrew Shaw
  • 1987–1989 Andrew Sackett
  • 1989–1995 Ian Hare[http://www.ianhare.org.uk Ian Hare].
  • 1995–1999 Charles Harrison (later organist of Chichester Cathedral)
  • 2000–2005 David Gibbs
  • 2005–2008 John Robinson (Organist and Choir Director)
  • 2008–present Edward Taylor (formerly Assistant Organist to Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir)

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Chelmsford Cathedral

Notable organists at Chelmsford Cathedral have included Stanley Vann and Philip Ledger.

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  • Geoffrey Becket
  • 1963 John Jordan
  • 1966 Peter Cross
  • 1968 David Sparrow
  • 1986 Timothy Allen
  • 1991 Neil Weston

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Chester Cathedral

Notable organists of Chester Cathedral include the composers Robert White and John Sanders and the recording artist Roger Fisher.Cathedral Organists. John E West. 1899.The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw. 1991.

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  • 1541 John Brycheley
  • 1551 Thomas Barnes
  • 1558 Richard Saywell
  • 1567 Robert White
  • 1570 Robert Stevenson
  • 1599 Thomas Bateson
  • 1609 John Alien
  • 1613 Michael Done
  • 1614 Thomas Jones
  • 1637 Richard Newbold
  • 1642 Randolph Jewitt
  • 1661 Rev. Peter Stringer
  • 1673 John Stringer
  • 1686 William Key
  • 1699 John Mounterratt
  • 1705 Edmund White
  • 1715 Samuel Davies
  • 1726 Benjamin Worrall
  • 1727 Edmund Baker
  • 1765 Edward Orme
  • 1776 John Bailey
  • 1803 Edward Bailey
  • 1823 George Black
  • 1824 Thomas Haylett
  • 1841 Frederick Gunton
  • 1877 Joseph Cox Bridge
  • 1925 John Thomas Hughes
  • 1930 Charles Hylton Stewart
  • 1932 Malcolm Courtenay Boyle
  • 1949 James Roland Middleton
  • 1964 John Sanders
  • 1967 Roger Fisher
  • 1997 David Poulter
  • 2008 Philip Rushforth{{Cite web|url=https://chestercathedral.com/team|title=Who's Who|website=Chester Cathedral}}

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=Assistant Organists=

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  • 1857 Mr. Munns
  • 1872–1876 Herbert Stephen Irons
  • 1876–1877 Joseph Cox Bridge (then organist)
  • ????–1890 John Gumi
  • 1893–1925 John Thomas Hughes (then organist)
  • 1925–1926 Guillaume Ormond (later organist of Truro Cathedral)
  • 1934–1944 James Roland Middleton (later organist of Chelmsford Cathedral)
  • 1944–1947 George Guest (later organist of St John's College, Cambridge)
  • 1955–1960 Brian Runnett (later organist of Norwich Cathedral)
  • 1960–1962 Peter Gilbert White
  • 1962–1967 Harold Hullah
  • 1967–1971 John Belcher
  • 1971–1974 John Cooper Green
  • 1974-1976 Gwyn Hodgson
  • 1976–1978 John Keys
  • 1978–1980 Simon Russell
  • 1980–1984 Martin Singleton
  • 1984–1986 David Holroyd
  • 1986–1989 Lee Ward
  • 1989–1998 Graham Eccles
  • 1998–2002 Benjamin Saunders
  • 2003–2008 Philip Rushforth (later organist)
  • 2008–2011 Ian Roberts
  • 2011–2016 Benjamin Chewter
  • 2016–2020 Andrew Wyatt
  • 2020 – present Alexander Lanigan-Palotai
  • 2023 – present Daniel Mathieson

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Chichester Cathedral

Notable organists at Chichester Cathedral have included composer Thomas Weelkes and conductors John Birch and Nicholas Cleobury.

Until 1801, there were two distinct posts, 'Organist' and 'Master of the Choristers', which were merged upon the appointment of James Target. Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has existed the role of Assistant Organist. Currently, the 'Organist and Master of the Choristers' is responsible for the direction of the choir and cathedral liturgy, and the 'Assistant Organist' accompanies the choir.

The sacking of Chichester Cathedral in December 1642 caused all cathedral services to be suspended. They were not resumed until the restoration of the monarchy in 1661. The choir was re-formed in the same year, but the appointment of a new organist did not occur until 1668.

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Organist (1545–1801)

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Organist and Master of the Choristers (1801 – present)

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  • 1899–1918 John Henry MeeObituary, Musical Times, Vol. 59, No. 900 (February 1918), p. 68

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Coventry Cathedral

This list details only those who have held positions in the new Coventry Cathedral.

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  • 1960 Martyn Lane{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
  • 1962 Michael Burnett{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
  • 1964 Robert George Weddle (then Organist)
  • 1972 J Richard Lowry
  • 1976 Ian Little (then Organist)
  • 1977 Paul Leddington Wright (then Organist)
  • 1984 Timothy Hone
  • 1988 Chris Argent (then Shrewsbury School)
  • 1990 David Poulter (then Director of Music; later Director of Music at Liverpool Cathedral)
  • 1995–2002 Daniel Moult
  • 2004 Alistair Reid
  • 2011–2013 Laurence Lyndon-Jones (to Chelmsford Cathedral)
  • 2018–2020 Rachel Mahon (then Director of Music)
  • since 2020 Luke Fitzgerald

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Derby Cathedral

Notable organists at Derby Cathedral have included Arthur Claypole and Wallace Ross.

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  • (Alfred) Samuel (Wensley) Baker
  • Celyn Kingsbury
  • Rodney Tomkins
  • 1985 Tom Corfield
  • 2017 Edward Turner

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Durham Cathedral

Notable organists at Durham Cathedral have included the composers Thomas Ebdon and Richard Lloyd, organists Philip Armes, John Dykes Bower who went on to St Paul's Cathedral, London, Conrad William Eden and James Lancelot, and choral conductor David Hill.

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  • 1557 John Brimley
  • 1576 William Browne
  • 1588 Robert Masterman
  • 1594 William Smyth
  • 1599 William Browne
  • 1609 Edward Smyth
  • 1612 Mr Dodson
  • 1614 Richard Hutchinson
  • 1661 John Foster
  • 1677 Alexander Shaw
  • 1681 William Greggs
  • 1710 James HeseltineScholes, Percy A. (1970) The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed. London: Oxford U. P.; p. 468a (he destroyed some of his own anthems, but those that survive are still sung).
  • 1763 Thomas Ebdon
  • 1811 Charles E. J. Clarke
  • 1813 William Henshaw
  • 1862 Philip Armes
  • 1907 Rev Arnold D. Culley
  • 1933 John Dykes BowerScholes, Percy A. (1970) The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed. London: Oxford U. P.; p. 123b.
  • 1936 Conrad William Eden
  • 1974 Richard Lloyd
  • 1985 James Lancelot
  • 2017 Daniel Cook

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=Sub-Organists=

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=Assistant Organists=

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  • 2009–2011 Oliver Brett
  • 2011–2015 David Ratnanayagam

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Ely Cathedral

Organists of Ely Cathedral have included the composers Basil Harwood and Arthur Wills.

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  • ????-1857 Mr. Bailey (afterwards organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
  • ????-1865 William J. Kempton
  • George Legge
  • William George Price (later organist to the City of Melbourne)
  • 1903–1906 Frederick Chubb Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 44.
  • 1906–1909 Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
  • 1911–1915 Edwin Alec Collins
  • 1927–1929 Guillaume Ormond(afterwards organist of Truro Cathedral)
  • William Bean
  • 1939 C. P. R. Wilson
  • 1945–1949 Russell Missin
  • 1949–1958 Arthur Wills (later organist)
  • 1958–1961 Christopher Scarf
  • 1961–1964 Michael Dudman
  • 1964–1966 Anthony Greening
  • 1968–1972 Roger Judd (afterwards Master of the Music at St Michael's College, Tenbury)
  • 1973–1976 Gerald Gifford
  • 1977–1989 Stephen Le Prevost
  • 1989–1991 Jeremy Filsell
  • 1991–1996 David Price (now organist at Portsmouth Cathedral)
  • 1996–1998 Sean Farrell
  • 1999–2002 Scott Farrell
  • 2002 Jonathan Lilley (now Director of Music at Waltham Abbey)
  • 2013 Edmund Aldhouse
  • 2019 Glen Dempsey
  • 2024 Jeremy Lloyd

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=Assistant Organists of the Girls' Choir/Graduate Organ Scholars=

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  • 2006–2008 Edward Taylor (now Assistant Organist at Carlisle Cathedral)
  • 2008–2012 Oliver Hancock (now Director of Music at St Mary's Warwick)
  • 2012–2014 Alexander Berry (then Director of Music at Bradford Cathedral now Director of Music at Great St Mary's, Cambridge)
  • 2015–2017 Alexander Goodwin (now at St John's School Leatherhead as Head of Music Performance & Choral Music)
  • 2017–2021 Aaron Shilson (now Assistant Director of Music at Llandaff Cathedral)
  • 2021–2023 Jack Wilson (Graduate Organ Scholar, now Organist and Master of Music at Belfast Cathedral)
  • 2023–present Stanley Godfrey

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Exeter Cathedral

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Notable organists at Exeter Cathedral include composer and hymn writer Samuel Sebastian Wesley, educator Sir Ernest Bullock and conductor Sir Thomas Armstrong.

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  • 1856 H. G. Halfyard
  • 1861–1870 W. Pinney
  • 1861?–1868 Graham Clarke (later organist of St Andrew's, Plymouth)The Western Times, 6 July 1861, p. 5; Sherborne Mercury, 29 March 1864, p. 4; The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 1 September 1865, p. 7; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, 9 September 1868, p. 5.
  • ????–1880? Edward Ellis Vinnicombe
  • 1881–1889 Ernest Slater
  • Frederick Gandy BradfordThornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 252.
  • ????–1898 Walter HoyleThornsby (1912); p. 291. (later organist of Coventry Cathedral)
  • 1900–1906 Revd Arnold Duncan CulleyThornsby (1912); p. 265.
  • 1906–1918 F. J. Pinn
  • 1919–1927 Ernest BullockWho's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 30. (later organist here, subsequently knighted and Organist of Westminster Abbey)
  • 1929–1937 William Harry Gabb{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n13975654 |title=William Harry Gabb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819143515/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n13975654 |archive-date=19 August 2013 }} (later Organist of H.M. Chapels Royal & Sub Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London)
  • 1937–1940 John Norman Hind
  • 1945–1946 John Norman Hind
  • 1946– Edgar S. Landen
  • 1950–1955 Howard StephensWho's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 201.
  • 1956–1961 Stuart Marston Smith
  • 1961–1969 Christopher Gower (later Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral)
  • 1969–2010 Paul Morgan (titled 'Organist' in 1999)

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  • 2010 David Davies
  • 2016 Timothy Parsons
  • 2021 James Anderson-Besant
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  • 1994–2016 Stephen Tanner (Assistant Organist)

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Gloucester Cathedral

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Notable among the organists of Gloucester Cathedral are Samuel Sebastian Wesley (his final cathedral appointment) and composers and choral conductors of the Three Choirs Festival, Sir Arthur Herbert Brewer, Herbert Sumsion and John Sanders.

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  • 1582 Robert Lichfield
  • 1620 Elias Smith
  • 1620 Philip Hosier
  • 1638 Berkeley Wrench
  • 1640 John Okeover
  • 1662 Robert Webb
  • 1665 Thomas Lowe
  • 1666 Daniel Henstridge
  • 1673 Charles Wren
  • 1679 Daniel Roseingrave
  • 1682 Stephen Jeffries
  • 1710 William Hine
  • 1730 Barnabas Gunn
  • 1743 Martin Smith
  • 1782 William Mutlow
  • 1832 John Amott
  • 1865 Samuel Sebastian Wesley
  • 1876 Charles Harford Lloyd
  • 1882 Charles Lee Williams
  • 1897 Herbert Brewer
  • 1928 Herbert Sumsion
  • 1967 John Sanders
  • 1994 David Briggs
  • 2002 Andrew Nethsingha
  • 2007 Adrian Partington{{cite web|url=http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/news.asp?id=95&page=1|title=New Director of Music Announced|work=Gloucester Cathedral website|publisher=Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral|date=8 May 2007|access-date=11 October 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070923012914/http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/news.asp?id=95&page=1 |archive-date = 23 September 2007}}

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  • 1701–1710 William Hine (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
  • Walter Brooks
  • 1862–1865 John Alexander Matthews
  • ????-1873 Henry John Vaughan
  • 1879–1880 George Robertson Sinclair (later organist at Truro Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral)
  • 1880–1882 A. Herbert Brewer
  • George Washbourn Morgan
  • James Capener
  • 1896 A. Herbert Brewer (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
  • 1898-1900-???? Ivor Morgan
  • ????-1906 S.W. UnderwoodGloucester Citizen – Saturday 13 October 1906. (afterwards organist at Stroud parish church)
  • 1907–1913 Ambrose Robert Porter (later organist of Lichfield Cathedral)
  • 1915–???? Harold C. Organ
  • ca. 1919 Charles Williams
  • 1920–1926 Reginald Tustin Baker (later organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
  • 1926-1917 William O Minay (later organist of Wigan Parish Church)
  • 1927–1932 Arthur John PritchardSimmons (1962) Who's who in music and musicians' international directory p. 168.
  • 1932–1937 (Alfred) Melville CookSimmons (1962) Who's who in music and musicians' international directory p. 45. (later organist of Hereford Cathedral)
  • 1938 W. Lugg
  • ????-1945 Herbert William ByardGloucester Citizen – Friday 5 January 1945.
  • Peter Stuart Rodway
  • 1948–1954 Donald Frederick Hunt (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
  • 1954–1958 Wallace Michael Ross (later organist of Derby Cathedral)
  • 1958–1963 John Sanders{{cite news |first= Kenneth|last= Shenton|title= John Sanders|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-sanders-549173.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090226051852/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-sanders-549173.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 26 February 2009|work= Obituaries|publisher= The Independent|date= 31 December 2003|access-date= 16 January 2009}}
  • 1963-1973 Richard Latham
  • 1973-1975 John Francis Clough (later assistant organist of St Albans Cathedral)
  • 1975–1983 Andrew Millington (later organist of Guildford Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral)
  • 1983–1990 Mark Blatchly
  • 1990–1998 Mark Lee
  • 1998–2002 Ian Ball
  • 2002–2008 Robert Houssart
  • 2008–2012 Ashley Grote (later Director of Music Norwich Cathedral)
  • 2012–2013 Anthony Gowing
  • 2014–present Jonathan Hope (previously Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral)

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Guildford Cathedral

Organists at Guildford Cathedral have included choral director Barry Rose and the composer Philip Moore.

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  • 1927–1940 Walter William Lionel BakerWho's Who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 12.
  • 1954–???? Harry Taylor
  • 1960-1961 Roger Moffatt
  • 1961-1962 Gordon Mackie
  • 1962–1965 Peter Moorse
  • 1965-1970 Gavin Williams
  • 1970–1977 Anthony Froggatt (later Organist of Portsmouth Cathedral)
  • 1977–1989 Peter Wright (later Organist of Southwark Cathedral)
  • 1989–2002 Geoffrey Morgan (later Organist of Christchurch Priory)
  • 2002–2003 Louise Reid (later Director of Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir)
  • 2003–2009 David Davies (later Assistant Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral)
  • 2009–2017 [http://www.paulprovost.co.uk Paul Provost] (later Rector Chori of Southwell Minster)
  • 2017–2023 Richard Moore
  • 2023 – present Asher Oliver

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Hereford Cathedral

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Notable organists of Hereford Cathedral include the 16th-century composers John Bull and John Farrant, briefly, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (his first cathedral appointment), the conductor and advocate of British composers Meredith Davies and the editor of Allegri's Miserere, Ivor Atkins.

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Leicester Cathedral

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Notable organists at Leicester Cathedral have included Gordon Slater and Jonathan Gregory.

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  • Richard Hobbs (to 1753) (afterwards organist St Martin in the Bull Ring){{cite news |author= |title=Birmingham Organists |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000619/19390413/334/0011 |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=England |date=13 April 1939 |access-date=18 January 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
  • William Boulton (to 1765){{cite journal |url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-5.pdf |last=Kroeger |first=Karl |date=Summer 2008 |title=Leicester's Lady Organists, 1770–1800 |journal=CHOMBEC News |issue=5 |pages=9–10 |publisher=Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth |location=Bristol }}
  • Anthony Greatorex 1765 – c. 1772 (father of Thomas Greatorex, who became organist at Westminster Abbey)
  • Martha Greatorex 1772–1800 (daughter of Anthony Greatorex)
  • Sarah Valentine 1800–1843 (sister of Ann Valentine, who was organist at St Margaret's Church, Leicester){{cite encyclopedia | last=Kroeger | first=Karl |editor1-last=Sadie |editor1-first=Stanley | encyclopedia=New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians |title=Valentine, John |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan |volume=26 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |pages=207–8 }}
  • Mrs Mary Lee Scott (née Hewitt) 1843-1870
  • John Morland 1870–1875
  • Charles Hancock 1875–1927
  • Gordon Archbold Slater 1927–1931 (subsequently organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1931–1966)
  • George Charles Gray 1931–1969 (previously organist at St Michael le Belfrey, York and St. Mary le Tower, Ipswich
  • Peter Gilbert White 1969–1994 (previously Assistant Organist of Chester Cathedral 1960–1962)
  • Paul Morley-April -July 1994 (Acting Master of the Choristers) Who became Director of Music (St James the Greater, Leicester) 2002-2006,now Director of Leicester Church Music Consort (LCMC) 2005 to present, formerly Organist of Leicester Church Music Consort (LCMC) 1984- 2005
  • Jonathan Gregory 1994–2010 (previously organist of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, now Director of Music of the UK Japan Choir)
  • Christopher Ouvry-Johns 2011–present (formerly Choral Director in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds)

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  • Frederick William Dickerson
  • Dennis Arnold Smith 1918
  • Stanley Vann 1932 (subsequently Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral 1953–1977)
  • Thomas Bates Wilkinson 1933Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p.229
  • Wallace Michael Ross 1951 (subsequently assistant organist at Gloucester Cathedral 1954–1958, and organist of Derby Cathedral 1958–1982)
  • Sidney Thomas Rudge 1955
  • Robert Prime 1965
  • Geoffrey Malcolm Herbert Carter 1973 (subsequently organist of St Mary's Church, Humberstone)
  • David Cowen 1995 (now Organist of Leicester Cathedral)
  • Simon Headley 1999–2018 (also Acting Director of Music in the Autumn of 2010 between the departure of Jonathan Gregory and the appointment of current Director of Music, Christopher Ouvry-Johns)
  • Rosie Vinter 2019–present

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Lichfield Cathedral

Notable organists of Lichfield Cathedral include the 17th-century composer Michael East, and the musical educator and choral conductor Sir William Henry Harris who conducted at the coronations of both Elizabeth II and George VI

=Organists=

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  • 1618 Michael East
  • 1638 Henry Hinde
  • 1662 Mr Lamb (Snr)
  • 1688 Mr Lamb (Jnr)
  • 1723 George Lamb III
  • 1750 John Alcock
  • 1766 William Brown
  • 1807 Samuel Spofforth
  • 1864 Thomas Bedsmore
  • 1881 John Browning Lott
  • 1925 Ambrose P. Porter
  • 1959 Richard Greening
  • 1978 Jonathan Rees-Williams
  • 1992 Andrew Lumsden
  • 2002 Philip Scriven
  • 2010 Martyn Rawles

This post was restructured in September 2010.

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=Directors of Music=

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  • 2010 Ben and Cathy Lamb
  • 2016 Ben Lamb

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  • 1849–1864 Thomas Bedsmore (organist from 1864)
  • 1865–1866 James C. CulwickThe Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture By W. J. McCormack, Patrick Gillan.
  • William Grainger
  • Montague Spinney
  • Percival J. Illsley
  • 1890–1897 Clement Charlton Palmer (later organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
  • ????-1895 Herman Brearley
  • 1902–1909 H. Rose
  • 1909–1911 Thomas Milton Sowell
  • 1911–1919 William Henry Harris (later successively organist of New College, Oxford and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, later knighted and organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle)
  • 1919–1924 Montague Herbert Spinney{{cite web|url=http://www.cathedralchoir.org.uk/persfass.htm |title=Lichfield Cathedral Choir Personnel Introduction |publisher=Cathedralchoir.org.uk |access-date=20 January 2012}}
  • 1927–1947 Edgar Morgan
  • ????-1960 Frayling
  • 1950–1952 PW Read
  • 1952–1955 Paul H Matthews
  • 1955–1959 Donald Cox
  • 1959 J W Sharwood
  • 1960–1967 Robert Green
  • 1968–1974 Peter Noyce
  • 1975–1986 Peter King (later organist of Bath Abbey)
  • 1986–1994 Mark Shepherd (later organist of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick)
  • 1994–2002 Robert Sharpe (later organist of Truro Cathedral and York Minster)
  • 2002–2007 Alexander Mason 7{{cite web|author=Peter Rhodes |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/2007/04/28/alex-to-play-concert-swansong/ |title=Alex to play concert swansong « Express & Star |publisher=Expressandstar.com |date=28 April 2007 |access-date=20 January 2012}} (later organist of St Davids Cathedral)
  • 2007 Cathy Lamb and 2008 Martyn Rawles

This post was restructured in September 2010.

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Lincoln Cathedral

Notable organists of Lincoln Cathedral have included the Renaissance composers William Byrd and John Reading and the biographer of Mendelssohn, William Thomas Freemantle.

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  • 1439 John Ingleton
  • 1489 John Davy
  • 1490 John Warcup
  • 1506 Leonard Pepir
  • 1508 Thomas Ashwell
  • 1518 John Watkins
  • 1524 John Gilbert
  • 1528 Robert Dove
  • 1538 Thomas Appilby
  • 1539 James Crowe
  • 1541 Thomas Appilby
  • 1552 William Monk{{cite book|title=A History of Lincoln Minster|year=1994|isbn=9780521254298|page=74|publisher=CUP Archive |editor=Dorothy Owen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5JOAAAAIAAJ}}
  • 1559 Thomas Appilby
  • 1563 William Byrd
  • 1572 Thomas Butler
  • 1593 William Boys
  • 1594 John Hilton
  • 1599 Thomas Kingston
  • 1616 John Wanlesse
  • 1660 Thomas Mudd
  • 1663 Andrew Hecht
  • 1670 John Reading
  • 1693 Thomas Hecht
  • 1693 Thomas Allinson
  • 1704 George Holmes
  • 1721 Charles Murgatroy
  • 1741 William Middlebrook
  • 1756 Lloyd Raynor
  • 1784 John Hasted
  • 1794 George Skelton
  • 1850 John Matthew Wilson Young
  • 1895 George Bennett
  • 1930 Gordon Archbold Slater
  • 1966 Philip Marshall
  • 1986 David Flood
  • 1988 Colin Walsh

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From 2003 the post was divided: Colin Walsh became Organist Laureate and Aric Prentice was appointed Director of Music.

=Director of Music=

  • 2003 Aric Prentice

=Assistant Organists=

Articled pupils fulfilled the role of assistant organist until 1893 when the Chapter formalised the position of assistant organist.

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Liverpool Cathedral

Notable organists at Liverpool Cathedral have included Edgar Robinson and Ian Tracey.

=Directors of Music of Liverpool Cathedral=

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  • 1910–1916 Frederick Hampton Burstall (of the Lady Chapel)Liverpool Daily Post 3 August 1916, p4
  • 1924–1947 Edgar Cyril Robinson
  • 1947–1982 Ronald Woan
  • 1982–2007 – Ian Tracey
  • 2008–2017 David Poulter
  • 2017–2021 Lee Ward
  • 2021-current Stephen Mannings

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  • 1910–1916 Frederick Hampton Burstall (of the Lady Chapel)
  • 1916–1955 Walter Henry Goss-Custard Liverpool Daily Post 15 December 1916, p1
  • 1955–1980 Noel Rawsthorne
  • 1980– Ian Tracey

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London, St Paul's Cathedral

The many distinguished musicians who have been organists, choir masters and choristers at St Paul's Cathedral include the composers John Redford, Thomas Morley, John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke and John Stainer, while well known performers have included Alfred Deller, John Shirley-Quirk, Anthony Way and the conductors Charles Groves and Paul Hillier and the poet Walter de la Mare.

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In 2007 the posts of Organist and Director of Music were separated, the Sub-Organist post being re-titled Organist & Assistant Director of Music in September 2008.

Organist and Assistant Director of Music

  • 2008-2021 Simon Johnson{{cite web |url=http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Worship-Music/Choir-Musicians/Cathedral-Musicians |title=Cathedral Musicians - St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK |access-date=13 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022061300/http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Worship-Music/Choir-Musicians/Cathedral-Musicians |archive-date=22 October 2014 }}

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=Assistant Sub-Organists and Sub-Organists=

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In 2007 the posts of Organist and Director of Music were separated, the Assistant Sub-Organist post being re-titled Sub-Organist in April 2008 to reflect the increased demands and prominence of the role.

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=Almoners and Masters of the Choristers=

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  • 1315–1329 William of Tolleshunt
  • fl. 1345 John de Hadley
  • fl. 1358 John de Ware
  • ????–1534 Thomas Hickman
  • 1530–1540 John Redford (also Organist)
  • before 1552 Thomas Mulliner
  • 1559–1576 Sebastian Westcote (Vicar Choral)
  • 1584–1589 Thomas Giles
  • 1596 Edward Kerkham
  • 1599–1612 Edward Pearce or Piers
  • 1613–1624 John Gibbs
  • 1626–1742 Martin Peerson
  • 1661–1775 Randall Jewett
  • 1686–1687 Michael Wise
  • 1687–1693 John Blow
  • 1693–1707 Jeremiah Clarke (also Organist)
  • 1707–1748 Charles King (Vicar Choral)
  • 1748–1773 William Savage (Vicar Choral)
  • 1773–1793 Robert Hudson (Vicar Choral)
  • 1793–1800 Richard Bellamy (Vicar Choral)
  • 1800–1812 John Sale (Vicar Choral)
  • 1812–1846 William Hawes (Vicar Choral)
  • 1846–1853 William Hale
  • 1853–1872 J. H. Coward (Minor Canon)

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The title of Almoner was abolished in 1872,{{Cite book|last=Prestige|first=George|title=St Paul's in its glory|publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge|year=1955|location=London|pages=156}} while the post of Master of the Choristers was held by a succession of Vicars Choral:

  • 1846–1858 William Bayley{{Cite web|title=Biographical Dictionary of the Organ {{!}} William Bayley|url=https://www.organ-biography.info/index.php?id=Bayley_William_c1810|access-date=22 February 2022|website=www.organ-biography.info}}{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|7278873}} |last1=Bumpus |first1=John S.|title=THE ORGANISTS AND COMPOSERS OF S. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL |journal=Musical Standard |volume=38 |issue=1327 |date=4 January 1890 |pages=4 }}
  • 1858?–1867 Henry Buckland
  • 1867–1874 Frederick Walker (resigned upon establishment of St Paul's Cathedral School on the present basis){{cite journal |last1=Crotchet |first1=Dotted |title=St. Paul's Cathedral (Concluded) |journal=The Musical Times |date=1907 |volume=48 |issue=769 |pages=155–163 |doi=10.2307/905028 |jstor=905028 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2336018 }}
  • 1874–1876 George Clement Martin (subsequently Sub-Organist & then Organist)

The training of the choristers was then entrusted to the Organist and his deputies until –

  • 1977–1984 Barry Rose 1977–1984 (Master of the Choir)

In 1990 the post was re-united with that of Organist under John Scott

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Manchester Cathedral

Notable organists at Manchester Cathedral have included Frederick Bridge and Sydney Nicholson.

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Newcastle Cathedral

Notable organists at Newcastle Cathedral have included Charles Avison and Colin Ross.

=Organists=

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  • 1687 Samuel Nichols
  • 1736 Charles Avison
  • 1770 Edward Avison
  • 1776 Matthias Hawdon
  • 1789 Charles Avison Jnr
  • 1795 Thomas Thompson
  • 1834 Dr Thomas Ions
  • 1857 William Ions
  • 1894 George Huntley
  • 1895 John Jeffries
  • 1918 William Ellis
  • 1936 Kenneth Malcolmson
  • 1955 Colin Ross
  • 1967 Dr. Russell Missin
  • 1987 Timothy Hone
  • 2002 Scott Farrell
  • 2008 George Richford (Acting)
  • 2009 Michael Stoddart
  • 2016 Ian Roberts

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=Assistant organists=

=Director of the Girls Choir and Sub-Organist=

  • 2008-2009 George Richford, Founder Director of the Girls Choir
  • 2009-2010 Austin Gunn (acting), now professor in vocal studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance{{Cite web|url=https://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/students-and-staff/staff-biographies/austin-gunn|title=Austin Gunn|website=Trinity Laban}}
  • 2010–2012 David Stevens (later Organist and Master of the Choristers at Belfast Cathedral, and Sub-Assistant Organist at Wells Cathedral)[http://www.stnicholascathedral.co.uk/the-cathedral-team.aspx Newcastle cathedral website, list of staff] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529213639/http://stnicholascathedral.co.uk/the-cathedral-team.aspx |date=29 May 2014 }} URL accessed 5 November 2009

=Assistant Director of Music=

  • 2012–2015 James Norrey (became Assistant Sub-Organist at Rochester Cathedral)
  • 2015 Kris Thomsett

Norwich Cathedral

Notable organists of Norwich Cathedral have included Zechariah Buck and Brian Runnett, and composers Thomas Morley, Heathcote Dicken Statham, Alfred R. Gaul and Arthur Henry Mann.

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Oxford, Christ Church

First among the notable organists of Christ Church, Oxford is the Renaissance composer John Taverner. Other significant composers and conductors are Basil Harwood, Sir William Henry Harris, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Sydney Watson, Francis Grier, Simon Preston and Nicholas Cleobury.

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Peel Cathedral (Isle of Man)

Organists at Peel Cathedral have included the following.

=Organists and Choirmasters=

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  • 1983 Mike Porter
  • 1986 Bernard Clark
  • 1991 Mark Roper
  • 1992 Stephen Dutton
  • 1993 Edward Coleman
  • 1995 Harvey Easton
  • 2001 Mike Porter

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Between 1991 and 1994 the job was combined with the Head of Music position at King Williams College.

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  • 2008 Donald Roworth
  • 2012 Dr Peter Litman{{Cite web|url=http://www.fcm.org.uk/Find_Cathedrals/England/Cathedrals/Peel.html|title=Peel Cathedral|website=Friends of Cathedral Music|access-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805173640/http://www.fcm.org.uk/Find_Cathedrals/England/Cathedrals/Peel.html|archive-date=5 August 2016|url-status=dead}}

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=Associate Organist=

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  • 2018–present Stuart Corrie

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Peterborough Cathedral

Notable organists of Peterborough Cathedral have included Stanley Vann, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Armstrong.

=Masters of the Music=

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[http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/newsarticle.aspx/41/dom Tansy Castledine is to be new Director of Music - Peterborough Cathedral]

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Plymouth Cathedral

Organists at Plymouth Cathedral have included the following.

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  • 1990 Neville Allen
  • 1996 Robert Osmond (formerly Director of Music at Sacred Heart and S Thérèse, Paignton)
  • 1998 Kevin Holmes (formerly Director of Music at the Birmingham Oratory)
  • 2001 Christopher Fletcher (formerly Director of Music at Totnes Parish Church)
  • 2020 Robert Osmond (formerly Director of Music at this Cathedral – returning for a second term)

= Assistant Organists =

  • 1996–1998 Brian Apperson (formerly Director of Music at St Augustine's, Kilburn, London NW6)

= Organists =

  • 1995–1997 Timothy J Lewis (formerly an Anglican Priest and now a Catholic Priest & Canon Precentor of this Cathedral)
  • 1950s Webster Mansfield (formerly Organist at Holy Cross Plymouth)

Portsmouth Cathedral

Notable organists at Portsmouth Cathedral have included Adrian Lucas and David Price.

=Organists=

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  • 1927 Hugh Burry
  • 1933 T. H. Newboult
  • 1944 John Davison
  • 1959 Maxwell Menzies
  • 1964 Peter Stevenson
  • 1968 Christopher Gower
  • 1977 Anthony Froggatt
  • 1990 Adrian Lucas
  • 1996 David Price

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=Sub-Organists=

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  • 1930 Mr Pease
  • 1963 Hugh Davis
  • 1978 David Thorne
  • 1999 Rosemary Field
  • 2005 Marcus Wibberley
  • 2012 Oliver Hancock
  • 2018 Sachin Gunga

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Ripon Cathedral

Notable organists of Ripon Cathedral have included composers Charles Harry Moody and Ronald Edward Perrin.

=Organists=

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  • 1447 Thomas Litster (priest)
  • 1478 Lawrence Lancaster
  • 1511 John Watson
  • 1513 William Swaine
  • 1520 Adam Bakehouse
  • 1540 William Solber
  • 1548 Interregnum
  • 1613 John Wanlass
  • ca. 1643 Interregnum
  • 1662 Henry Wanlass
  • 1670 Wilson
  • 1674 Alexander Shaw
  • 1677 William Sorrell
  • 1682 John Hawkins
  • 1690 Thomas Preston (sen)
  • 1731 Thomas Preston (jun)
  • 1748 William Ayrton{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ayrton, Edmund|last= Squire|first=William Barclay|authorlink=William Barclay Squire|volume=02}}
  • 1799 William F. M. Ayrton (elder son)
  • 1802 Nicholas T. D. Ayrton (younger son)
  • 1823 John Henry Bond
  • 1829 George Bates
  • 1874 Edwin John Crow
  • 1902 Dr Charles Harry Moody, (formerly organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
  • 1954 Lionel Frederick Dakers
  • 1957 Dr Philip Marshall
  • 1966 Ronald Edward Perrin
  • 1994 Kerry Beaumont
  • 2002 Andrew Bryden (Acting)
  • 2003 Simon Morley
  • 2003 Andrew Bryden
  • 2020 Peter Wright (Acting)
  • 2022 Dr Ronny Krippner"[https://www.riponcathedral.org.uk/welcoming-dr-ronny-krippner-our-new-director-of-music/ Welcome Dr. Ronny Krippner, Our New Director of Music]", Ripon Cathedral, 10 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.

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=Assistant Organists/Assistant Directors of Music=

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  • Edward BrownThornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 254.
  • 1876–1881 Henry TaylorThornsby (1912); p. 337.
  • ???? J. William-RenderGlasgow Herald 4 July 1888.
  • William Rains
  • William Edward Cave
  • Edgar Alfred Lane
  • ????-1887 Herbert Arthur WheeldonDerby Mercury, 2 February 1887.
  • 1887–1890 Charles Morton Bailey
  • Edgar Watson
  • ca. 1908 C. RichardsLichfield Mercury 22 May 1908.
  • David Lamb
  • 1925–1927 Leonard BagguleyNottingham Evening Post 27 July 1925.Western Morning News 16 December 1927. (formerly assistant organist of St Mary's Church, Nottingham, afterwards organist of Paignton Parish Church)

The post of assistant organist was informal until 1928 when it was made official.

  • 1928–1935 Dennis Cocks
  • 1935–1939 Alfred H. Allsop
  • World War Two (1939–1947)
  • 1947–1952 Alex Forrest
  • 1952–1955 Paul Mace
  • 1955–1956 Keith Bond
  • 1956–1958 Peter Anthony Stanley StevensonWho's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 202.
  • 1958–1963 Laurence Gibbon
  • 1963–1974 Alan Dance
  • 1974–1986 Marcus Huxley (later organist of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham)
  • 1986–1998 Robert Marsh
  • 1998–2003 Andrew Bryden (then organist)
  • 2003-2004 Stephen Power (Acting)
  • 2004–2008 Thomas Leech
  • 2009–2013 Edmund Aldhouse
  • 2013–2014 Ben Horden (acting)
  • 2014- Tim Harper (Assistant Director of Music)
  • 2023- Alastair Stone (Assistant Organist)

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Rochester Cathedral

Among the composers, conductors and concert performers who have been organists at Rochester Cathedral are Bertram Luard-Selby, Harold Aubie Bennett, Percy Whitlock and William Whitehead.

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  • 2015 Ben Bloor
  • 2016–2018 James Norrey

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St Albans Cathedral

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The posts of Organist and Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral have been held by a number of well-known musicians, including Peter Hurford, Stephen Darlington and Barry Rose. The current Director pf Music is William Fox. Since 1963 the cathedral has been home to the St Albans International Organ Festival, winners of which include Dame Gillian Weir, Thomas Trotter and Naji Hakim. Following Andrew Lucas's retirement after more than 25 years in the post, the roles and responsibilities of the cathedral's two senior musicians were reviewed, and changed to Director of Music and Assistant Director of Music and Partnerships from September 2024.

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  • 1302 Adam
  • 1498 Robert Fayrfax
  • 1529 Henry Besteney
  • 1820 Thomas Fowler
  • 1831 Edwin Nicholls
  • 1833 Thomas Fowler
  • 1837 Thomas Brooks
  • 1846 John Brooks
  • 1855 William Simmons
  • 1858 John Stocks Booth

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=Directors of Music=

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  • 2024 William Fox{{cite web |title=William Fox announced as new Director of Music |url=https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/News/william-fox-announced-as-new-director-of-music |website=St Albans Cathedral |date=15 February 2024 |access-date=20 May 2025}}

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=Assistant Organists=

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  • 1908–1909 John CawleyThornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 257.
  • 1921–1930 George C. Straker
  • 1936–1939 Sydney John BarlowWho's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 14.
  • 1945–1951 Frederick Carter
  • 1951–1970 John Henry FreemanWho's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 243.
  • 1970–1975 Simon Lindley
  • 1972-1973 Anthony Jennings{{Cite Grove |author=J.M. Thomson|title=Jennings, Anthony|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42592|date=20 January 2001}}
  • 1975–1976 John Clough
  • 1976–2001 Andrew Parnell
  • 2001–2008 Simon Johnson (later Assistant Director of Music St Paul's Cathedral and, from 2021, Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral)
  • 2008–2024 Tom Winpenny

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  • 2025 Dewi Rees{{cite web |title=Dewi Rees returns to St Albans Cathedral |url=https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/News/dewi-rees-returns-to-st-albans-cathedral |website=St Albans Cathedral |date=6 May 2025 |access-date=20 May 2025}}

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St Edmundsbury Cathedral

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This list of organists of St Edmundsbury Cathedral also includes organists of the parish church of St James before it was elevated to Cathedral status in 1914 with the creation of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

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  • 1867–1877 B Fearnside
  • 1917 Wilfred Mothersole
  • 1971 Mary Slatter
  • 1973 John Scott Whiteley
  • 1975 Geoffrey Hannant
  • 1986 Mervyn Cousins
  • 1993 Scott Farrell
  • 1999 Michael Bawtree
  • 2004 Jonathan Vaughn
  • 2007 David Humphreys
  • 2011 Daniel Soper
  • 2016 Alexander Binns
  • 2019 Richard Cook

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Salisbury Cathedral

Among the notable organists of Salisbury Cathedral have been a number of composers and well-known performers including Bertram Luard-Selby, Charles Frederick South, Sir Walter Galpin Alcock, Sir David Valentine Willcocks, Douglas Guest, Christopher Hugh Dearnley, Richard Godfrey Seal and the BBC presenter Simon Lole.

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  • 1463 John Kegewyn
  • 1563 Robert Chamberlayne
  • 1568 Thomas Smythe
  • 1587 John Farrant (Senior)Organist of Ely Cathedral, 1567–72; he composed the service Farrant in D minor. Scholes, Percy A. (1970) The Oxford Companion to Music; 10th ed. London: Oxford University Press; p. 347.
  • 1592 Richard Fuller{{cite book |last=Fellowes |first=Edmund H. |author-link=Edmund Fellowes |year=1951 |page=29 |title=Orlando Gibbons and His Family: The Last of the Tudor School of Musicians |edition=2nd |publisher=Archon Books |isbn=978-0-208-00848-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/orlandogibbonshi0000fell}}
  • 1598 John Farrant (Junior)Scholes; p. 908.
  • 1602–1610 John Holmes (previously organist of Winchester Cathedral)Scholes; pp. 483, 908.
  • 1618 Edward Tucker
  • 1629 Giles Tompkins
  • 1668–1687 Michael Wise
  • 1689 Peter Isaacke
  • 1692–1698 Daniel Roseingrave
  • 1700 Anthony Walkley
  • 1718 Edward Thompson
  • 1746 John Stevens
  • 1781 Robert Parry
  • 1792 Joseph Corfe
  • 1804 Arthur Thomas Corfe
  • 1863 John Elliott Richardson
  • 1881 Bertram Luard-Selby
  • 1883 Charles Frederick South
  • 1916 Sir Walter Galpin Alcock
  • 1947 David Valentine Willcocks (later knighted)
  • 1950 Douglas Albert Guest
  • 1957 Christopher Hugh Dearnley
  • 1968 Richard Godfrey Seal
  • 1997 Simon Lole
  • 2005 David Halls (Director of Music)

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Sheffield Cathedral

Notable organists at Sheffield Cathedral have included Edwin Lemare and Reginald Tustin Baker.

=Organists and Directors of Music=

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  • 2013 Joshua Hales
  • 2018 James Kealey (Interim)
  • 2018 Joshua Stephens
  • 2020 Ian Seddon
  • 2023 James Mitchell

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  • 1992–1995 Tim Horton
  • 1995–1999 Chris Betts
  • 1999 Mark Pybus
  • 1999–2005 Peter Heginbotham
  • 2005–2012 Anthony Gowing

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  • ?–1976 Hubert Stafford
  • 1975-1979 David G Read
  • 1979–1985 Paul Parsons
  • 1989–1992 Martin Colton

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Southwark Cathedral

Among the organists of Southwark Cathedral are Edgar Tom Cook, known for his lunchtime organ broadcasts on the BBC, and the organ designer and noted teacher Ralph Downes.

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  • F. Stanley Winter
  • 1908–1917 Charles Edgar Ford
  • 1917–1922 Francis W. Sutton
  • 1922 J.C. Bradshaw 1922
  • 1923–1925 Ralph William Downes (later Organist of the London Oratory, Brompton, organ consultant and designer, including designer and curator of the Royal Festival Hall organ)
  • 1934–1935 Philip Miles
  • 1936 Ernest F.A. Suttle
  • 1937–1954 Ernest Herbert WarrellWho's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 224.
  • 1955–1956 William Allen HumphersonWho's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 244.
  • 1957–1959 Denys Darlow
  • 1959–1962 John Flower, Alan Dance, John Oxlade
  • 1962–1970 Arthur Newell
  • 1971–1974 Christopher Jenkins
  • 1975–1978 Nicholas Woods
  • 1978–1985 John Scott
  • 1985–1988 Andrew Lumsden
  • 1988–1997 Stephen Layton
  • 1997 Stephen Disley

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Southwell Minster

At Southwell Minster, the term Rector Chori is used rather than Director of Music, or Master of the Choristers. It literally means Ruler of the Choir, and is an historic title.

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  • 1499 Lawrence Pepys
  • 1519 Rev George Vincent
  • 1568 George Thetford
  • 1582 John Mudd
  • 1584 Thomas Foster
  • 1586 William Colbecke
  • 1594 John Beeston
  • 1596 Edward Manestie
  • 1622 Francis Dogson
  • 1628 John Hutchinson
  • 1661 Edward Chappell
  • 1690 George Chappell
  • 1699 William Popeley
  • 171? William Lee
  • 1754 Samuel Wise
  • 1755 Edmund Ayrton
  • 1764–1781 Thomas Spofforth
  • 1818 Edward Heathcote
  • 1835 Frederick Gunton
  • 1841 Chappell Batchelor
  • 1857 Herbert Stephen Irons
  • 1872 Cedric Bucknall
  • 1876 William Weaver Ringrose
  • 1879 W. Arthur Marriott
  • 1888 Robert William Liddle
  • 1918 Harry William Tupper
  • 1929 George Thomas Francis
  • 1946 Robert Ashfield
  • 1956 David Lumsden
  • 1959 Kenneth Beard
  • 1989 Paul Hale
  • 2016 [http://www.simonhogan.co.uk Simon Hogan] (acting)
  • 2017 [http://www.paulprovost.co.uk Paul Provost] (formerly Sub-Organist of Guildford Cathedral)

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Assistant Organists:

  • ????-1861 W.D. HallSheffield Independent – Saturday 19 January 1861.
  • W.L. Dodd 1861–1865 (afterwards organist of St Alkmund's Church, Derby){{cite news |author= |title=A Well Known Derby Musician |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001084/19100617/135/0007 |newspaper=Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal |location=England |date=17 June 1910 |access-date=3 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
  • ca. 1868 E.D. HoeGrantham Journal – Saturday 18 January 1868.
  • ca. 1870 H. Nicholson
  • ????-1885 G. FletcherDerby Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 27 May 1885.
  • 1890–1897 Alfred Winterbotham{{cite book |last= Thornsby |first= Frederick |date= 1921|title= Dictionary of organs and organists|publisher= Geo Aug Mate and Son, 150 Fleet Street, London }}
  • 1897–1902 Lawrence Frederick BaguleyDictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912.
  • 1903–1904 Sydney Weale (formerly assistant organist at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent)
  • Oswald SteeleDerby Daily Telegraph – Friday 4 January 1918.
  • Cecil Wyer ???? – 1919{{cite news |author= |title=Mr. Cecil Wyer |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001897/19190904/098/0005 |newspaper=Nottingham Journal |location=England |date=4 September 1919 |access-date=2 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
  • 1958–1994 Peter Wood
  • 1994–2002 Philip Rushforth (now Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
  • 2002–08 Simon Bell (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral, now Director of Music of the Schola Cantorum at Tewkesbury Abbey)

In 2008 the title of Assistant Organist was replaced with Assistant Director of Music, in line with other Cathedrals.

Assistant Directors of Music:

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Truro Cathedral

The Diocese of Truro was established in 1876 and Truro Cathedral was consecrated in 1887. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin occupied the site before the cathedral was built, and had an organ: its organists included Charles William Hempel and his son Charles Frederick Hempel.

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Wakefield Cathedral

Organist of Wakefield Cathedral have included the following.

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  • 1886 Joseph Naylor Hardy
  • 1930–1945 Newell Smith Wallbank
  • 1945–1970 Percy George Saunders
  • 1970–2010 Jonathan Bielby
  • 2010–2020 Thomas Moore
  • 2020–2021 James Bowstead (Acting)
  • 2021- 2022 Ed Jones
  • 2023 - James Bowstead

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  • 1896–1900 William Frederick Dunnill20th Century Cathedral Organists. Enid Bird
  • 1961–1971 John Holt
  • 1975–1983 Peter David Gould
  • 1983–1985 Gareth Green[http://ebasic.easily.co.uk/00C031/02E006/adj08-music.htm Horsforth Music Festival 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514193413/http://ebasic.easily.co.uk/00C031/02E006/adj08-music.htm |date=14 May 2008 }} Music adjudicator
  • 1985–1991 Keith Wright
  • 1991–1996 Sean Farrell
  • 1996–2002 Louise Reid (née Marsh)
  • 2002–2010 Thomas Moore
  • 2010 Daniel Justin
  • 2011–2015 Simon Earl
  • 2015–2017 Sachin Gunga
  • 2018–2020 James Bowstead
  • 2020–2021 Robert Pecksmith
  • 2021-2023 James Bowstead
  • 2023- Alana Brook

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster in London, located close to the Palace of Westminster.[https://www.westminster-abbey.org/ Westminster Abbey website]. Retrieved 16 May 2023. It is the traditional site for the coronation of the British monarch, for royal weddings and funerals and for other state occasions. In addition, the organist oversees the music for daily services sung by a choir of 12 professional adults and up to 30 boys from the adjacent choir school.[https://www.westminster-abbey.org/worship-music/music/the-abbey-choir-and-musicians Westminster Abbey: The Abbey Choir and musicians]. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

The present organ was installed in 1937 and was built by Harrison & Harrison. The fifth manual was a later addition, added during the 1982-1984 rebuild, with the Bombarde pipework being intalled in 1987.[https://npor.org.uk/survey/N00646]. Retrieved 27 March 2025. The organ case, however, is from the previous Hill organ (which were donated by Mr J.L. Pearson).[https://npor.org.uk/survey/N18254]. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

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Wells Cathedral

The first record of an organ at Wells Cathedral dates from 1310, with a smaller organ, probably for the Lady Chapel, being installed in 1415. In 1620 a new organ, built by Thomas Dallam, was installed at a cost of £398 1s 5d, however this was destroyed by parliamentary soldiers in 1643 and another new organ was built in 1662,{{cite web |url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N06889 |title=Somerset, Wells Cathedral of St. Andrew, Dean & Chapter Of Wells N0 6890|access-date=11 February 2008 |publisher=National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)}}

which was enlarged in 1786,{{cite web |url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N06890 |title=Somerset, Wells Cathedral of St. Andrew, Dean & Chapter Of Wells N06890|access-date=11 February 2008 |publisher=National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)}}

and again rebuilt in 1855, a substantial early work of 'Father' Henry Willis.{{cite web |url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N06891 |title=Somerset, Wells Cathedral of St. Andrew, Dean & Chapter Of Wells N06891|access-date=11 February 2008 |publisher=National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)}}

In 1909–1910 a new organ was built by Harrison & Harrison with the best parts of the old organ retained (approximately one-third of the stops being by Willis),{{cite web |url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N06892 |title=Somerset, Wells Cathedral of St. Andrew, Dean & Chapter Of Wells N06892|access-date=11 February 2008 |publisher=National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)}}

and this has been maintained by the same company since.{{cite web |url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N06893 |title=Somerset, Wells Cathedral of St. Andrew, Dean & Chapter Of Wells N06893|access-date=11 February 2008 |publisher=National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)}}

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  • 1416–1418 Walter Bagele (or Vageler){{cite web|title=Walter Bagele|url=http://www.organ-biography.info/index.php?id=Bagele_Walter_15|publisher=Biographical Dictionary of the Organ|access-date=4 September 2011}}
  • 1421–1422 Robert Cator
  • 1428–1431 John Marshal
  • 1437–1462 John Marchell
  • 1461–1462 John Menyman (joint)
  • 1461–1462 Richard Hygons (joint)
  • 1497–1507 Richard Hygons
  • 1507–1508 Richard Bramston
  • 1508 John Clawsy (or Clavelleshay)
  • 1514 William Mylwhard
  • 1515–1531 Richard Bramston
  • 1534–1538 John Smyth
  • 1547–1554 Nicholas Prynne
  • 1556–1557 John Marker
  • 1558 Robert Awman
  • 1559–1562 William Lyde
  • 1563 Thomas Tanner
  • 1568 Matthew Nailer
  • 1587 John Clerk
  • 1600 Thomas Hunt
  • 1608 James Weare
  • 1613 Edmund Tucker
  • 1614 Richard Brown
  • 1619–1642 John Oker (or Okeover)
  • Commonwealth period (1642-1663)
  • 1663 John Brown
  • 1674 Mr Hall
  • 1674 John Jackson
  • 1688 Robert Hodge
  • 1690 John George
  • 1713 William Broderip
  • 1726 Joseph Millard
  • 1727 William Evans
  • 1741 Jacob Nickells
  • 1741 John Broderip
  • 1771 Peter Parfitt
  • 1773 Robert Parry
  • 1781 Dodd Perkins
  • 1820 William Perkins
  • 1859 Charles Williams Lavington
  • 1896 Percy Carter Buck
  • 1899 Revd. Canon Thomas Henry Davis
  • 1933 Conrad William Eden
  • 1936 Denys Pouncey
  • 1971 Anthony Crossland
  • 1996 Malcolm Archer
  • 2004 Rupert Gough (acting)
  • 2005 Matthew Owens{{cite web|title=Matthew Owens|url=http://www.wcos.org.uk/windowsother/wmatthewowens.html|publisher=Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society|access-date=4 September 2011}}
  • 2020–2022 Jeremy Cole (acting Organist and Master of the Choristers since 2017)
  • 2023–2024 Alexander Hamilton (Acting Director of Music)
  • 2024- Timothy Parsons

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  • 1842–1859 Charles William Lavington
  • J. Summers
  • c. 1880 Frederick Joseph William CroweThornsby, 1912, p. 264. (later organist of Chichester Cathedral) c.1880
  • 1894–1895 Charles Harry Moody (then acting organist 1895)
  • 1896–1897 Frederick William HeckThornsby, 1912, p. 286. (afterwards organist of Bedminster Parish Church)
  • W. J. BownThornsby, 1912, p. 251.
  • 1904–1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams (later sub-organist of Norwich Cathedral).
  • 1906 Kenneth J MillerThornsby, 1912, p. 309.
  • 1908 Edward Percival Oxley (afterwards organist of St Paul's Church, Birmingham){{cite news |author= |title=Mr. E.P. Oxley |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19561201/189/0005 |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Gazette |location=England |date=1 December 1956 |access-date=6 November 2023 }}
  • 1908 F.P. Wheeldon
  • Frank W. Porkess
  • 1920–1925 Marmaduke Conway (later organist of Ely Cathedral)
  • 1926–1927 C.H. Trevor
  • 1927–1933 Conrad William Eden (then organist here and later organist of Durham Cathedral)
  • 1938 J.W. Martindale-Sidwell (later organist of St Clement Danes, London)
  • 1946–1953 Michael Peterson
  • 1961–1970 Anthony Crossland (later organist)
  • 1977–1983 David Anthony Cooper (later organist of Blackburn Cathedral)
  • 1983–1990 Christopher Brayne (later organist of Bristol Cathedral)
  • David Ponsford
  • 1990–1994 Andrew Nethsingha
  • 1994–2005 Rupert Gough
  • 2002–2007 David Bednall (Senior Organ Scholar 2002 – 2004)
  • 2007–2017 Jonathan Vaughn
  • 2017–2019 Jeremy Cole
  • 2019–2020 James Gough (temporary)
  • 2020– Alexander Hamilton (Assistant Director of Music)
  • 2023–2023 Adam Wilson (Acting Assistant Director of Music)
  • 2024- Carolyn Craig

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Winchester Cathedral

The earliest known organist of Winchester Cathedral is John Dyer in 1402. Later organists include Christopher Gibbons whose patronage aided the revival of church music after the Interregnum, John Reading, Daniel Roseingrave, James Kent, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the composer of sacred music, who was also responsible for the acquisition of the Cathedral organ, Martin Neary, who arranged the music for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and choral director David Hill.

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Organists were formerly titled "Organist and Master of the Choristers" then, briefly, "Organist and Master of the Music" and now "Organist and Director of Music"

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Sometimes the appointment has been as "Sub-organist" or, in recent years, "Assistant Director of Music"

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  • 1787–1802 George William Chard (later Organist)
  • 1851–1854 George Mursell Garrett (later Organist of Madras Cathedral, subsequently Organist of St John's College, Cambridge and Organist to Cambridge University)Shaw, Watkins, "The Succession of Organists", p. 153
  • 1863–?? Thomas Somerford
  • ????-1869 E. H. Birch
  • 1876 Charles Lee Williams (later Organist of Llandaff Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral)Dictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.436
  • William Prendergast (later Organist)
  • 1898–?? Alfred Ernest Floyd
  • E. Gilbert
  • 1902–1904 Louis H. TorrDictionary of organs and organists. First Edition. 1912. p. 340.
  • 1906 George C. MacklinDictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.379 (The entry merely states "trained Winchester Cathedral" and there is no indication of any formal appointment)
  • 1906–1913 Howard Roscoe EadyDictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.336 (The entry states "Hon. Asst-Org. and Music Master to Choristers")
  • 1908–?? James Frederick Parsons Dictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.393 (The entry implies a short tenure, but it is not apparent whether jointly with H. R. Eady, above)
  • Henry William RadfordDictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.400
  • 1912–1921 Henry William StubbingtonWho's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 204. (later Organist of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham)
  • 1919 Hilda BirdDictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.308
  • Horace Hawkins (later organist of Chichester Cathedral)
  • W. Brennand SmithDictionary of organs and organists. Second Edition, 1921. p.415
  • Cyril John Tucker Fogwell
  • Gillian Skottowe (now Gillian Earl)
  • 1958–1967 Graham Hedley Matthews (later Organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
  • 1967–?? Clement McWilliamClement McWilliam's tenure briefly overlapped that of Graham Hedley Matthews, above, but it is not currently known whether there was any formal joint appointment as Assistant Organist.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clement-mcwilliam-395897.html | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Clement McWilliam | date=4 October 2007}}
  • 1975–1985 James Lancelot (later Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral, also Lay Canon and now Lay Canon Organist Emeritus there also, from September 2018, Interim Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral)
  • 1985–1991 Timothy Byram-Wigfield (later successively Organist of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal), Jesus College, Cambridge, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and All Saints, Margaret Street, London) All Saints’ Parish Newsletter, January 2020.
  • 1991–1996 David Dunnett (later Organist and Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral)
  • 1996–1998 Stephen Farr (later Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral, Organist of Worcester College, Oxford and from April 2020 Organist and Director of Music All Saints, Margaret Street, London)
  • 1999–2002 Philip Scriven (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Lichfield Cathedral)
  • 2002–2008 Sarah Baldock (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Chichester Cathedral)
  • 2003–2008 Philip White-Jones (later Assistant Director of Music at Southwell Minster)
  • 2008 Richard McVeigh (Assistant Organist)
  • 2008–2012 Simon Bell (Assistant Director of Music, later Director of Music of the 'Schola Cantorum' at Tewkesbury Abbey)
  • 2012–2021 George Castle (Assistant Director of Music)
  • 2017 Richard Moore (Assistant Organist)From March 2017: Cathedral website
  • 2017-2024 Claudia Grinnell (Assistant Organist 2017-2021) (Sub-Organist 2021-2024)Cathedral website
  • 2022- Joshua Stephens (Sub-Organist)
  • 2024- Oliver Morrell (Sub Organist){{cite web |title=Q&A with Oliver Morrell, Sub-Organist at Winchester Cathedral |url=https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/news/oliver-morrell-qa/ |website=Winchester Cathedral |date=15 January 2025 |access-date=20 May 2025}}{{div col end}}

Worcester Cathedral

Organists of Worcester Cathedral have included Sir Ivor Atkins, Douglas Guest, Christopher Robinson, the composers Thomas Tomkins, William Hayes, Hugh Blair, and conductors Sir David Willcocks, Donald Hunt and Adrian Lucas.

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  • 2007–2008 Simon Bertram
  • 2008–2012 George Castle (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral)
  • 2012–2014 James Luxton (later Assistant Director of Music at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)
  • 2014–2016 Justin Miller
  • 2017–2019 Richard Cook
  • 2019–2021 Ed Jones

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  • 1981–2021 John Wilderspin{{Cite web |url=http://worcestercathedral.co.uk/Voluntary_Choir.php# |title=Worcester Cathedral Voluntary Choir |website=worcestercathedral.co.uk |access-date=4 March 2020}}

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York Minster

File:The Organists of York Minster.jpg

Among the notable organists of York Minster are four members of the Camidge family who served as cathedral organists for over 100 years, and a number of composers including James Nares, Edwin George Monk, John Naylor, Thomas Tertius Noble and Francis Jackson.

=Organists=

The organists of York Minster have had several official titles, including "Master of the Music"; the job description roughly equates to that of Organist and Master of the Choristers. They will have an Assistant Organist, who may be titled simply "Organist".

The names of Organists prior to 1633 have been copied from the list of Organists of York Minster on the wall of the North Transept.

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=Assisting Organists=

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  • 2016–2018 Jeremy Lloyd
  • 2018–2020 Christopher Strange
  • 2021–2023 Asher Oliver (Assistant Organist)
  • 2023–Present Adam Wilson

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See also

Notes

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References

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