Marmaduke Conway
Education
Conway was educated at Bedford School and the Royal College of Music, obtaining a B.Mus in Oxford and a Mus.D in Dublin.
Organist
He later became Organist of All Saints', Eastbourne in 1908, and St. Andrew's, Wells Street, London, in 1917. Four years as Assistant Organist of Wells Cathedral led him to Chichester. In 1931 he left Chichester to become Organist of Ely Cathedral. He retired in 1949. It was during Conway's time as Organist of Chichester Cathedral that an electric blowing apparatus was provided for the Cathedral organ. The blower was housed in the room off the north transept, now known as the Plant Room, and the wind was conveyed through to the organ via an underground conduit still in existence.
Author
He was an accomplished author of books and articles on organ technique.[https://books.google.com/books?id=PiQ8AAAACAAJ&dq=Organs+And+Organists+of+Chichester+Cathedral&ei=TkFuSfuzFY6syAT5ovnnAw Organs and Organists of Chichester Cathedral]
- Playing a Church Organ (1949) London: Latimer House Ltd
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Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Category:Organists & Masters of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral
Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Organists
Category:People educated at Bedford School
Category:Organists of Ely Cathedral
Category:20th-century English organists
Category:20th-century English male musicians