List of musicians at English cathedrals

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

Pipe organ in Gloucester Cathedral. The case dates from 1579, the organ was rebuilt by Henry Willis (1874). It is located in its original position.

The organ of Exeter Cathedral is inscribed "John Loosemore made this organ, 1665".

The pipe organ of Chester Cathedral

Arundel Cathedral

The Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard has been the Catholic Cathedral of Arundel since 1965.

Directors of Music

1992–2002 Alistair Warwick
2002–present Elizabeth Stratford

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.

Directors of Music

1715 Barnabas Gunn
1733? William de St. Thunes
1735? John Ohio Eversman
1765 Jeremiah Clarke (afterwards organist of Worcester Cathedral)
1803 Bishop Simms
1829 Henry Simms
1871 Charles John Blood Meacham (later organist of St. George's Church, Edgbaston)
1888 Richard Yates Mander (later organist of All Saints' Church, Ryde)
1898 A. G. Thompson
1901 Arthur Elmore (later organist of St Mary the Virgin, Acocks Green)
1906 Edwin Stephenson (later organist of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster)
1914 William Frederick Dunnill (formerly organist of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham)
1936 Willis Grant (later professor of music, University of Bristol)
1958 Thomas Tunnard
1968 Roy Massey
1974 David Bruce-Payne
1978 Hubert Best
1986 Marcus Huxley

Assistant Organists

1907–1914 T. Appleby Matthews
1950–1951 Harrison Oxley, (later Organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral)
1954–1956 John K. Nicholas
1966–1968 Roland L. Keen, (later Director of Music at Wroxall Abbey School)
Hubert Best (later organist)
1978–1979 Gary Cole
1986–1995 Rosemary Field
1995–1997 Rupert Jeffcoat, (later Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral and St John's Cathedral, Brisbane)
1997–2004 Christopher Allsop, (later Assistant Organist at Worcester Cathedral)
2004–2010 Stuart Nicholson, (later Organist and Master of Choristers at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)
2010–2014 Tim Harper
2014– David Hardie

Blackburn Cathedral

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

Organists

1828–1831 Joseph John Harris (later organist of Manchester Cathedral)
1832 R. Nimmo (temporary)
1832–1838 Henry Smart
1838–1840 John Bishop (formerly organist of St. Paul's Church, Cheltenham)
1840–1848 William Robinson
1848–1858 Joseph Rolley (from Church of St George, Bolton)
1858–1863 Charles Greenwood
1863–1870 James H. Robinson
1870–1882 Thomas S. Hayward (previously organist of St Peter's Collegiate Church Wolverhampton, afterwards organist of Wesleyan Chapel, Mornington Road, Southport^[1])
1882–1888 Walter Handel Thorley
1888–1900 James H. Rooks
1900^[2]–1912 Christie Green (afterwards organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
1912–1914 Richard Henry Coleman
1914–1916 Charles Hylton Stewart
1916–1939 Herman Brearley
1939–1964 Thomas Lucas Duerden
1964–1983 John Bertalot
1983–1994 David Anthony Cooper
1994–1998 Gordon Stewart
1998–2011 Richard Tanner (from All Saints' Church, Northampton)
2011– Samuel Hudson

Bradford Cathedral

Organist and Master of the Choristers

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

Organist & Director of Music

2012– Alexander Woodrow

Cathedral Organist

2011– 2014 Paul Bowen

Sub-Organist & Assistant Director of Music

2009–2012 David Condry
2012–2016 Jonathan P. Eyre

Bristol Cathedral

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

Organists

1542 Thomas Denny
1588 Elway Bevan
1599 Edward Gibbons
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

Assistant Organists

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
Lionel Pike
John Jenkin
1980–1986 Martin Schellenberg, (later Director of Music of Christchurch Priory)
1986– Tony Pinel
Claire Hobbs
1991–1994 Ian Ball
1994–2001 David Hobourn
2001– Paul Walton

Canterbury Cathedral

Organists and Assistant Organists at Canterbury Cathedral have included composers Clement Charlton Palmer, Gerald Hocken Knight and Philip Moore (organist) and musical directors Allan Wicks and Stephen Darlington.^[3]^[4]

Organists

1407 John Mounds
1420 William Stanys
1445 John Cranbroke
1499 Thomas Seawall
1534 John Wodynsborowe
1547 William Selby
1553 Thomas Bull
1583 Matthew Godwin
1590 Thomas Stores
1598 George Marson
1631 Valentine Rother
1640 Thomas Tunstall
1661 Thomas Gibbes
1669 Richard Chomley
1692 Nicholas Wotton
1697 William Porter
1698 Daniel Henstridge
1736 William Raylton
1757 Samuel Porter
1803 Highmore Skeats
1831 Thomas Jones
1873 William Henry Longhurst
1898 Harry Crane Perrin
1908 Clement Charlton Palmer
1937 Gerald Hocken Knight
1953 Douglas Edward Hopkins
1956 Sidney Campbell
1961 Allan Wicks
1988 David Flood

Assistant Organists

1836 William Henry Longhurst
1873 John Browning Lott
1875 ?
1884 Herbert Austin Fricker
1892 J. Sterndale Grundy
1906 W. T. Harvey
1909 Frank Charles Butcher
1918 Rene Soames^[5]
1926 ?
1936 Henry Frank Cole
1938 ?
1953 John Malcolm Tyler^[6]
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
2011 David Newsholme

Second Assistant Organists

2015 Adrian Bawtree

Organ Scholars

1982 Christopher Tambling
1987 David Woodcock
1990 David Hobourn
1991 Timothy Noon
1992 Duncan Aspden
1993 Andrew Arthur
1994 Andrew Bryden
1997 Tom Williamson
1998 Anthony Gowing
1999 Philip Stopford
2000 Timothy Uglow
2001 John Robinson
2002 Benjamin Chewter
2003 Richard Leach
2004 Léon Charles
2005 Jonathan White
2006 James Norrey
2007 Tim Harper
2008 Mark Browne
2009 David Gerrard
2010 Thomas Allery
2011 Andrew Wyatt
2012 Edward Hewes
2013 Weston Jennings
2014 William Wallace

Carlisle Cathedral

Plaque in Carlisle Cathedral

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.

Organists

1560 Thomas Southick
1587 Robert James
1610 James Pearson
1630 Robert Dalton
1663 John How
1693 Timothy How
1734 Abraham Dobinson
1749 Charles Pick
1781 Thomas Greatorex (later organist at Westminster Abbey).
1785 Thomas Hill
1833 Richard Ingham
1841 James Stimpson (later Birmingham City Organist and organist of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham)
1842 Henry Edmund Ford
1903 E. G. Mercer
1904 Sydney Nicholson
1910 Frederick William Wadeley
1960 Robert Andrew Seivewright
1991 Jeremy Suter

Assistant Organists

1900–1902 Stanley G. P. Stubbs (later Acting Organist)
1915–1919 Charles Frederick Eastwood
1932–1934 G. F. Stuart
1940–1945 Keith Burton-Nickson^[7]
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^[8]
1995–1999 Charles Harrison
2000–2005 David Gibbs
2005–2008 John Robinson
2008–present Edward Taylor (formerly Organ Scholar at Ely Cathedral)

Chester Cathedral

Notable organists of Chester Cathedral include the composers Robert White and John Sanders and the recording artist Roger Fisher.^[9]^[10]

Organists

1541 John Brycheley^[9]
1551 Thomas Barnes^[9]
1558 Richard Saywell^[9]
1567 Robert White^[9]
1570 Robert Stevenson^[9]
1599 Thomas Bateson^[9]
1609 John Alien^[9]
1613 Michael Done^[9]
1614 Thomas Jones^[9]
1637 Richard Newbold^[9]
1642 Randolph Jewitt^[9]
1661 Rev. Peter Stringer^[9]
1673 John Stringer^[9]
1686 William Key^[9]
1699 John Mounterratt^[9]
1705 Edmund White^[9]
1715 Samuel Davies^[9]
1726 Benjamin Worrall^[9]
1727 Edmund Baker^[9]
1765 Edward Orme^[9]
1776 John Bailey^[9]
1803 Edward Bailey^[9]
1823 George Black^[9]
1824 Thomas Haylett^[9]
1841 Frederick Gunton^[9]
1877 Joseph Cox Bridge^[9]
1925 John Thomas Hughes^[10]
1930 Charles Hylton Stewart^[10]
1932 Malcolm Courtenay Boyle^[10]
1949 James Roland Middleton^[10]
1964 John Sanders^[10]
1967 Roger Fisher^[10]
1997 David Poulter
2008 Philip Rushforth

Assistant Organists

1857 Mr. Munns
1872–1876 Herbert Stephen Irons^[10]
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)^[10]
1934–1944 James Roland Middleton (later organist of Chelmsford Cathedral)^[10]
1944–1947 George Guest
1955–1960 Brian Runnett
1960–1962 Peter Gilbert White
1962–1967 Harold Hullah
1967–1971 John Belcher
1971–1975 John Cooper Green
1975–1978 John Keys
1978–1984 Martin Singleton
1984-1986 David Holroyd
1986-1989 Lee Ward
1989–1998 Graham Eccles
1998–2003 Benjamin Saunders
2003–2008 Philip Rushforth
2008–2011 Ian Roberts
2011–2016 Benjamin Chewter

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.

Organists and Masters of the Choristers

Organist (1545–1801)

Master of the Choristers (1550s – 1801)

155? Richard Martyn
1558 William Payne
1562 Edward Piper
1568 William Payne
1571 Clement Woodcock
1580 Christopher Paine
1589 Clement Woodcock
1590 John Cowper
1597 Thomas Lambert
1599 Jacob Hillarye
1602 Thomas Weelkes
1617 John Fidge
1642 None
1661 John Floud
1662 George Hush
1668 Bartholomew Webb
1673 John Turner
1675 John Reading
1677 ?
1732 Thomas Capell
1771 Thomas Tremain
1775 William Walond Jr.
1794 Thomas Barber

Organist and Master of the Choristers (1801 – present)

Assistant Organists

18?? Wharton Hooper
1864 ?
1876 Edward Bartlett
1887 Hugh Percy Allen
1892 Percy Algernon Whitehead
1908 William Herbert H. Lambert
1911 R. Swanborough
1915 Cyril Herbert Stone
1920 ?
1931 John Edward Snelling-Colyer
1932 Leonard Fergus O’Connor
1936 Claude Appleby
1942 Anne Maddocks
1949 ?
1961 Richard Seal
1968 Michael Davey
1971 Nicholas Cleobury
1973 Ian Fox
1978 Richard Cock
1980 Kenneth Sweetman
1981 Jeremy Suter
1991 James Thomas
1997 Mark Wardell
2010 Timothy Ravalde

Organ Scholars

1977 Richard R. Webster
1979 Kenneth Sweetman
1982 Simon Dinsdale
1988 Andrew Johnstone
1992 Mark Purcell
1993 Neil Cockburn
1994 Benjamin Nicholas
1995 David Soar
1996 Nicholas Chalmers
1997 Christopher Denton
1998 Luke Bartlett
1999 Marcus Wibberley
2000 Deirdre Comerford
2001 Edmund Aldhouse
2002 Ian Roberts
2003 Jamie Hutchings
2004 Sebastian Thompson
2005 Matthew Pitts
2006 John Mountford
2007 Colin Gray
2008 Julian Haggert
2009 John Dilworth
2010 Paul Manley
2011 Alex Goodwin
2012 Ben Cunningham
2013 Leonard Sanderman
2014 Tomek Pieczora
2015 Laura Erel

Coventry Cathedral

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

Directors of Music

1961 David Foster Lepine
1972 Robert Weddle
1977 Ian Little
1984 Paul Leddington Wright
1995 David Poulter (subsequently Organist of Chester Cathedral and Director of Music at Liverpool Cathedral)
1997 Rupert Jeffcoat (subsequently Director of Music and Organist at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane))
2005 Alistair Reid (Acting Director of Music)
2006 Kerry Beaumont

Assistant Organists

Robert George Weddle 1964–1972 (then organist)
J Richard Lowry 1972–1976
Ian Little 1976–1977 (then organist)
Paul Leddington Wright 1977–
Timothy Hone
Chris Argent
David Poulter 1990–1995 (then Director of Music)
Daniel Moult 1995–2002
Martyn Lane
Alistair Reid 2004-2011
Laurence Lyndon-Jones 2011-2013

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Derby Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

(Alfred) Samuel (Wensley) Baker
Celyn Kingsbury
Rodney Tomkins
1985 Tom Corfield

Durham Cathedral

Notable organists at Durham Cathedral have included the composers Thomas Ebdon and Richard Lloyd, organist John Dykes Bower who went on to St Paul's, and choral conductor David Hill.

Organists

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 Heseltine^[11]
1763 Thomas Ebdon
1811 Charles E. J. Clarke
1813 William Henshaw
1862 Philip Armes
1907 Rev Arnold D. Culley
1933 John Dykes Bower^[12]
1936 Conrad William Eden
1974 Richard Lloyd
1985 James Lancelot

Sub-Organists

????-1850 John Matthew Wilson Young, (later organist of Lincoln Cathedral)
Thomas Henry Collinson
????-1874 J.C. Whitehead,
1895–1903 Revd John Lionel Shirley Dampier Bennett
1901 F. E. Leatham, 1 (temporary during absence of J. L. Bennett)
1903–1918 William Ellis, (later organist of Newcastle Cathedral)
1918–1919 Basil S. Maine,
1919–1968 Cyril Beaumont Maude,
1968–1972 Bruce Richard Cash,
1973–1980 Alan Thurlow, (later Organist Chichester Cathedral)
1980–1982 David Hill,
1982–1991 Ian Shaw,
1991–2011 Keith Wright,
2011–present Francesca Massey,

Assistant Organists

2009-2011 Oliver Brett
2011–2016 David Ratnanayagam
2016-present Jason Lowe

Organ Scholars

2014–present Jonathan Allsopp

Ely Cathedral

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

Organists

1453 William Kyng
1535 Thomas Barcroft
1541 Christopher Tye
1562 Robert White
1567 John Farrant (later organist of Salisbury Cathedral)^[13]
1572 William Fox
1579 George Barcroft
1610 John Amner
1641 Robert Claxton
1662 John Ferrabosco
1681 James Hawkins
1729 Thomas Kempton
1762 John Elbonn
1768 David Wood
1774 James Rogers
1777 Richard Langdon
1778 Highmore Skeats (sen.)
1804 Highmore Skeats (jun.)
1830 Robert Janes
1867 Edmund Thomas Chipp
1887 Basil Harwood
1892 Thomas Tertius Noble
1898 Hugh Allen
1901 Archibald Wilson
1919 Noel Ponsonby
1926 Hubert Stanley Middleton
1931 Marmaduke Conway
1949 Sidney Campbell
1953 Michael Howard
1958 Arthur Wills
1990 Paul Trepte

Assistant Organists

????-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 1
1906–1909 Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
1911–1915 Edwin Alec Collins^[14]
1927–1929 Guillaume Ormond 1 (afterwards organist of Truro Cathedral)
William Bean
1939 C.P.R. Wilson
1945–1949 Russell Missin
1949–1958 Arthur Wills
1958–1961 Christopher Scarf
1961–1964 Michael Dudman
1964–1966 Anthony Greening
Roger Judd
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
2013 Edmund Aldhouse

Directors of the Girls' Choir

2006–2008 Louise Reid
2008 Sarah MacDonald
2009–2011 Louise Reid
2010–present Sarah MacDonald

Assistant Organists of the Girls' Choir

2006–2008 Edward Taylor (later Assistant Organist at Carlisle Cathedral)
2008–2012 Oliver Hancock (later Sub-Organist at Portsmouth Cathedral)
2012–2014 Alexander Berry (later Assistant Organist at Magdalen College, Oxford)
2015-present Alexander Goodwin

Exeter Cathedral

List of the organists of Exeter Cathedral

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

Organists / Directors of Music

1586 Matthew Godwin
1591 Arthur Cocke
1609 John Lugge
1665 Theodore Coleby
1674 Henry Hall
1686 Peter Passmore and John White
1693 Richard Henman
1741 John Silvester
1753 Richard Langdon
1777 William Jackson
1804 James Paddon
1835 Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1842 Alfred Angel
1876 Daniel Joseph Wood
1919 Ernest Bullock (later Organist of Westminster Abbey)
1928 Thomas Armstrong (later Principal of the Royal Academy of Music)
1933 Alfred William Wilcock
1953 Reginald Moore
1957 Lionel Frederick Dakers
1973 Lucian Nethsingha
1999 Andrew Millington
2016 Timothy Noon

Assistant Organists (Organist from 1999)

1856 H. G. Halfyard
1861 – 1870 W. Pinney
1861? – 1868 Graham Clarke (later organist of St Andrew's, Plymouth)^[15]
???? – 1880? Mr. Vinnicombe
1881 – 1889 Ernest Slater
Frederick Gandy Bradford^[16]
???? – 1898 Walter Hoyle^[17] (later organist of Coventry Cathedral)
1900 – 1906 Revd Arnold Duncan Culley^[18]
1906 – 1918 F. J. Pinn
1919 – 1927 Ernest Bullock^[19] (later Organist of Westminster Abbey)
1929 – 1937 William Harry Gabb^[20] (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 Stephens^[21]
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)

Assistant Directors of Music

2010 David Davies

Assistant Organists

1994 Stephen Tanner (Assistant Organist)

Gloucester Cathedral

List of organists at Gloucester Cathedral

Notable among the organists of Gloucester Cathedral are composers and choral conductors of the Three Choirs Festival, Sir Arthur Herbert Brewer, Herbert Sumsion and John Sanders.

Organists

The known organists of the cathedral are listed below. In modern times, the most senior post has become known as Director of Music; only these names are recorded here.

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 Rosingrave
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 Williams
1897 Sir Arthur Herbert Brewer
1928 Herbert Sumsion
1967 John Sanders
1994 David Briggs
2002 Andrew Nethsingha
2007 Adrian Partington^[22]

Assistant Organists

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
1898-1900-???? Ivor Morgan
????-1906 S.W. Underwood^[23] (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 Pritchard^[24]
1932–1937 (Alfred) Melville Cook^[25] (later organist of Hereford Cathedral)
1938 W. Lugg
????-1945 Herbert Byard^[26]
Peter Stuart Rodway
1948–1954 Donald Frederick Hunt
1954–1958 Wallace Michael Ross (later organist of Derby Cathedral)
1958–1963 John Sanders^[27]
Richard Latham
?-1975 John Francis Clough (later assistant organist of St Albans Cathedral)
1975–1983 Andrew Millington (later organist of Guildford Cathedral)
1983–1990 Mark Blatchly
1990–1998 Mark Lee
1998-2002 Ian Ball
2002–2008 Robert Houssart
2008–2012 Ashley Grote
2012–2013 Anthony Gowing
2014–present Jonathan Hope (previously Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral)

Guildford Cathedral

Organists at Guildford Cathedral have included the composer Philip Moore.

Organists

1927 John Albert Sowerbutts
1946 Peter Goodman (later organist of Holy Trinity Church, Hull)
1951 Ronald Walter Dussek
1961 Barry Rose
1974 Philip Moore
1983 Andrew Millington (later Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral)
1998 Stephen Farr (later Director of Chapel Music at Worcester College, Oxford)
2008 Katherine Dienes-Williams

Sub-Organists

1927–40 Walter William Lionel Baker^[28]
1954–???? Harry Taylor
1965(?)-1970 Gavin Williams
1970–77 Anthony Froggatt (later Organist of Portsmouth Cathedral)
1977–89 Peter Wright (later Organist of Southwark Cathedral)
1989–2002 Geoffrey Morgan (later Organist of Christchurch Priory)
2002–03 Louise Reid (later Director of Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir)
2003–09 David Davies (later Assistant Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral)
2009–present Paul Provost

Hereford Cathedral

Notable organists of Hereford Cathedral include the 16th-century composers John Bull and John Farrant, the conductor and advocate of British composers Meredith Davies and the editor of Allegri's Miserere, Ivor Atkins.

Organists

1517 William Woode
1527 Richard Palmer
1536 John Slade
1538 John Hodges
1581 Thomas Mason (Master of the Choristers)
1582 John Bull
1586 Thomas Warrock(e) (see Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
1586 Thomas Mason (acting organist)
1591 John Fido (1st tenure)
1592 John Farrant
1593 John Fido (2nd tenure)
1595 John Gibbs
1596 John Fido (3rd tenure)
1597 William Inglott (until 1609 or later) (see Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
1630 Hugh Davis (possibly earlier)
1660 John Badham
1688 Henry Hall
1707 Henry Hall, junior
1714 Edward Thompson
1720 Henry Swarbrick
1754 Richard Clack
1779 William Perry
1789 Miles Coyle (formerly organist of St Laurence's Church, Ludlow)
1805 Charles James Dare
1818 Aaron Upjohn Hayter
1820 John Clarke Whitfeld (also Whitfield)
1832 Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1835 John Hunt
1843 George Townshend Smith
1877 Langdon Colborne
1889 George Robertson Sinclair
1918 Percy Clarke Hull
1950 (Albert) Meredith Davies
1956 (Alfred) Melville Cook
1966 Richard Lloyd
1974 Roy Massey
2001 Geraint Bowen

Assistant Organists

1883–1884 F. J. Livesey^[29]
1884–1889 Allan Paterson
1890–1893 Ivor Atkins (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
1892–1895 Edgar C. Broadhurst (later organist of St. Michael's College, Tenbury)
1898-c. 1912 Percy Hull^[30] (served in the First World War until 1918 when he became organist of Hereford Cathedral)
c. 1912 W. R. Carr^[31] (probably replaced Percy Hull during the war)
1919–1923 Ernest Willoughby
1924–1935 Reginald Harry West (later organist of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh)
1935–1940 Colin Archibald Campbell Ross^[32] (later organist at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne and Newcastle Cathedral)
1940–1942 Christopher John Morris
1942–1949 Colin Mann
1950–1953 Ross Fink
1953–1958 Michael Illman
1958–1962 Michael Burton (later organist of the Church of St John the Baptist, Frome)
1962–1967 Roger Fisher (later organist of Chester Cathedral)
1968–1984 Robert Green
1985–1988 David Briggs (later organist of Truro Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral)
1889–1994 Geraint Bowen (later organist of St David's Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral)
1995–1998 Huw Williams (later sub-organist at St Paul's Cathedral)
1998–present Peter Dyke

Organ Scholars

2008 Simon Bland
2009 Jeremy Cole
2010 Timothy Parsons
2011 Douglas Tang
2012 Joseph Wicks
2013 Jonathan Allsopp
2014 William Fox
2015 Charles Maxtone-Smith

Leeds Cathedral

Notable musicians of Leeds Cathedral include the composer, artist and conductor Arthur E. Grimshaw, son of the artist, John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Master of the Choristers

1883-1913 Arthur E. Grimshaw
John Needham
Henry Kallaway
1930s and 40s John Peers
1955-1969 Gerald B Lyons

Master of Music

1970-1978 William Dibley
1983-1989 Michael Murphy
1988-1993 Joseph Cullen
1993-2002 Stuart Thompson

Directors of Music

2002- Benjamin Saunders

Cathedral Organists

1913-1931 Henry Alban Chambers (aged 11 when appointed)
1931-1953 Frank Malone
1955-1987 Brian Mawson
1982-1990 Iain Robertson
2011-2015 Daniel Justin
2016- David Pipe

Leicester Cathedral

List of organists of Leicester Cathedral

Organists and Directors of Music

William Boulton (to 1765)^[33]
Anthony Greatorex 1765 – c. 1772 (father of Thomas Greatorex, who became organist at Westminster Abbey)^[33]
Martha Greatorex 1772–1800 (daughter of Anthony Greatorex)^[33]
Sarah Valentine 1800–1843 (sister of Ann Valentine, who was organist at St Margaret's Church, Leicester)^[34]
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)
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)

Assistant Organists and Assistant Directors of Music

Frederick William Dickerson
Dennis Arnold Smith 1918
Stanley Vann 1932 (subsequently Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral 1953–1977)
Thomas Bates Wilkinson 1933^[35]
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 Associate Organist of Leicester Cathedral)
Simon Headley 1999 (now Assistant Director of Music – see below)

In 2010 the posts of Organist and Director of Music were separated, the Assistant Organist post being re-titled Organist & Assistant Director of Music.

Simon Headley 2010–present (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)

Lichfield Cathedral

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

Organists

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.

Directors of Music

2010 Ben and Cathy Lamb

Assistant Organists

1849–64 Thomas Bedsmore (organist from 1864)
1865–66 James C. Culwick^[36]
William Grainger
Montague Spinney
Percival J. Illsley
1890–97 Clement Charlton Palmer (later organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
????-1895 Herman Brearley
1902–09 H. Rose
1909–11 Thomas Milton Sowell
1911–19 William Henry Harris
1919–24 Montague Herbert Spinney^[37]
1927–47 Edgar Morgan^[37]
????-1960 Frayling^[37]
1950–52 PW Read^[37]
1952 1955 Paul H Matthews^[37]
1955–59 Donald Cox^[37]
1959 J W Sharwood^[37]
1960–67 Robert Green^[37]
1968–74 Peter Noyce^[37]
1975–86 Peter King (later organist of Bath Abbey)^[37]
1986–94 Mark Shepherd^[37] (later organist of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick)
1994–2002 Robert Sharpe^[37] (later organist of Truro Cathedral and York Minster)
2002–2007 Alexander Mason 7^[38] (later organist of St Davids Cathedral)
2007 Cathy Lamb and 2008 Martyn Rawles^[37]

This post was restructured in September 2010.

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.

Organists

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
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

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

Assistant Organists

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

????-1594 John Hilton
1857–58 William James Young (brother of the organist) (later organist of St. Mary's Church, Horncastle, then St. Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow, Cheshire)
????-1864 W.H. Wish^[39] (later organist of St Andrew's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Richard Winter
1870 William Thomas Freemantle^[40] (later organist of St. Andrew's Church, Sharrow^[41])
????-1881 Edwin Charles Owston^[42] (later organist of St. Andrew's Church, Derby)
????-1882 Ernest Wood
William Rose Pullein
1893–94 Frank Pullein^[43] (later organist of St Giles' Church, Wrexham^[44])
1895–99 Edgar Cyril Robinson (later organist of Gainsborough Parish Church and then Wigan Parish Church)
1899–1904 Harry Smith Trevitt
????-1903 John Pullein (later organist of St. Peter's Church, Harrogate)
19-7-21 Frederick David Linley Penny
1922–26 William Wells Hewitt (later organist of Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon)
1926–30 Edward Francis Reginald Woolley (later organist of Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent)
1931–36 Willis Grant (later organist of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham)
1936–???? Clifford Hewis^[45]
1975–92 Roger Bryan (later organist of Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent)
1992–93 Andrew Post (later Director of Music, Christchurch Priory)
1993–94 James Antony Vivian (acting)
1994–99 Jeffrey Makinson (later assistant organist of Manchester Cathedral)
1999–2003 Simon Morley
Julian Thomas
Stephen Bullamore (later organist of Waltham Abbey)
Jamie John Hutchings (later Director of Music at Headington School, Oxford)
2005–07 Richard Apperley (later Assistant Director of Music at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington in New Zealand)
2008–11 Benjamin Chewter (later Assistant Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
2011–14 Claire Innes-Hopkins (later Assistant Organist of Rochester Cathedral)
2014–present Hilary Punnett

Assistant Directors of Music

2003–2014 Charles Harrison
2014–2015 Sachin Gunga (acting)
2015– Jeffrey Makinson

Liverpool Cathedral

Organists and Directors of Music

1910 - Frederick William Burstall
1915 - 1955 Walter Henry Goss-Custard
1931 - 1982 Ronald Woan (Director of Music)
1955 - 1980 Noel Rawsthorne
1980 - Ian Tracey (organist) (now Organist Titulaire)
2008 - David Poulter (Director of Music)

London, St Paul's Cathedral

The many distinguished musicians who have been organists, choir masters and choristers at St Pauls 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.

Organists and Directors of Music

c.1525–1547 John Redford (also Almoner)
1547 Philip ap Rhys (until c.1559)
1573 Henry Mudd
1587? – 1592? Thomas Morley
1598 Thomas Harrold
1619 John Tomkins
1638–1642 Albertus Bryne
1660–1668 Albertus Bryne
1687 Isaac Blackwell
1699 Jeremiah Clarke (also Almoner 1704-7)
1707 Richard Brind
1718 Maurice Greene
1756 John Jones
1796 Thomas Attwood
1838 Sir John Goss
1872 Sir John Stainer
1888 Sir George Clement Martin MVO
1916 Charles Macpherson
1927 Sir Stanley Marchant CVO
1936 Sir John Dykes Bower CVO
1968 Christopher Dearnley LVO
1990 John Scott LVO (Organist & Director of Music)
2004 Malcolm Archer
2007 Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)

Sub-Organists and Assistant Organists

????-1838 George Cooper (father)
1838–76 George Cooper (son) (also Organist HM Chapel Royal)
1876–88 George Clement Martin MVO (subsequently Organist)
1888–95 William Hodge
1895–1916 Charles Macpherson (subsequently Organist)
1916–27 Stanley Marchant CVO (subsequently Organist)
1927–46 Douglas Edward Hopkins (subsequently Organist Peterborough Cathedral; later Organist Canterbury Cathedral)
1946–74 Harry Gabb CVO (also Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal)
1974–88 Barry Rose OBE (Master of the Choir 1977–1984; later Master of Music St Albans Abbey)
1985–90 John Scott LVO (subsequently Organist and Director of Music; now Director of Music St Thomas, Fifth Avenue)
1990–98 Andrew Lucas (now Master of Music, St Albans Abbey)
1990–2008 Huw Williams (now Organist, HM Chapel Royal)

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.

2008 (September) Simon Johnson

Assistant Sub-Organists and Sub-Organists

1953–56 Gerald Wheeler
1956–58 Derek Holman CM
1958–66 Richard Popplewell LVO (later Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal)
1966–67 Timothy Farrell (later Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal)
1967–78 Christopher Herrick (later Sub-Organist Westminster Abbey)
1978–85 John Scott LVO 1 (simultaneously Assistant Organist Southwark Cathedral; later Sub-Organist)
1985–90 Andrew Lucas (subsequently Sub-Organist)
1990–91 Martin Baker (later Sub-Organist & Acting Organist Westminster Abbey; now Master of Music Westminster Cathedral)
1992–2000 Richard Moorhouse (afterwards Organist & Master of the Choristers Llandaff Cathedral)
2000–06 Mark Williams (now Director of Music Jesus College, Cambridge)
2006–08 Tom Winpenny (now Assistant Master of Music St Albans Abbey)

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.

2008–2014 Timothy Wakerell (now Assistant Organist New College, Oxford)
2014 (September) Peter Holder

Almoners and Masters of the Choristers

????-1534 Thomas Hickman
?1534–47 John Redford (also Organist)
1554–82 Sebastian Westcote (Vicar Choral)
1584–1600 Thomas Giles
1599–1612 Edward Pearce
1613–24 John Gibbs
1626–42 Martin Peerson
1661–75 Randall Jewett
1687 Michael Wise
1687–1703 John Blow
1704–07 Jeremiah Clarke (also Organist)
1707–48 Charles King (Vicar Choral)
1748–73 William Savage (Vicar Choral)
1773–93 Robert Hudson (Vicar Choral)
1793–1800 Richard Bellamy (Vicar Choral)
1800–12 John Sale (Vicar Choral)
1812–46 William Hawes

The title of Almoner then passed to one of the Minor Canons, while the post of Master of the Choristers was held by a succession of Vicars Choral, including –

1867–74 Fred Walker 1867–1874 (Vicar Choral)

until –

1874–76 George Clement Martin 1874–1876 MVO (subsequently Sub-Organist & then Organist)

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

1977–1984 Barry Rose OBE 1977–1984 (Master of the Choir)
1990 the post was re-united with that of Organist under John Scott

Organ Scholars

1975 John Dexter (Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1977–2001)
1978 Ian Sadler
Gareth Green
Martin Cooke
Mark Blatchly (now Organist Charterhouse School)
1980–94 Andrew Lucas (later Assistant Sub-Organist)
1979–82 Simon Lole (later Organist & Director of Music Sheffield Cathedral & then Salisbury Cathedral)
Andrew Shenton (now Associate Professor of Music at Boston University)
Roger Sayer (now Organist Rochester Cathedral)
1989 Lee Ward
1990 David Whitehead
1992 Fraser Simpson
1993 Huw Williams (later Sub-Organist)
Stuart Nicholson (now Organist & Master of the Choristers St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)
Lionel Steuart Fothringham (now Director of Music Highgate School)
1997 Simon Johnson (later Assistant Master of the Music St Albans Abbey; now Organist & Assistant Director of Music)
1998 Benjamin Nicholas (now Director of Music Merton College, Oxford)
2000 Nicholas Chalmers (now Assistant Chorus Master English National Opera)
2001 Thomas Corns (now Organist St Mary's Warwick)
2003 Duncan Ferguson (now Organist & Master of the Music St Mary's, Edinburgh)
2005 James Kennerly
2006 James McVinnie
2008 Tim Harper (now Assistant Director of Music Ripon Cathedral)
2010 Donald Hunt (now Assistant Organist St Mary's, Edinburgh)
2011 Simon Hogan (now Assistant Director of Music Southwell Minster)
2012 Richard Moore
2014 Rachel Mahon

Some notable Choristers and Vicars Choral

16th century

William Mundy (Vicar Choral), composer.
Peter Philips (chorister), composer.

17th century

Adrian Batten (Vicar Choral), composer.

18th century

Jonathan Battishill (chorister), composer.
William Boyce (chorister), composer.
Maurice Greene (chorister), composer and Organist of St Paul's Cathedral.

19th century

William Cummings (chorister), composer and organist.
Frederick Ranalow (chorister), baritone and actor
John Stainer (chorister), Organist of St Paul's Cathedral and Professor of Music at Oxford University.

20th century

Simon Russell Beale (chorister), actor.
Alastair Cook (chorister), cricketer.
Alfred Deller (Vicar Choral), counter-tenor.
Jimmy Edwards (chorister), actor.
Gerald English (Vicar Choral), tenor.
Charles Groves (chorister), conductor.
Paul Hillier (Vicar Choral), conductor.
Robin Holloway (chorister), composer.
Neil Howlett (chorister), opera singer and teacher.
James Lancelot (chorister), Organist of Durham Cathedral.
Walter de la Mare (chorister), poet and novelist.
Stephen Oliver (chorister), composer.
Julian Ovenden (chorister), actor and singer.
John Shirley-Quirk (Vicar Choral), bass-baritone.
Robert Tear (Vicar Choral), tenor and conductor.
Anthony Way (chorister), treble.

Manchester Cathedral

Organists

1635 John Leigh
1637 William Garter
1666 William Turner
1670 William Keys
1679 Richard Booth
1696 Edward Tetlow
1702 James Holland
1704 Edward Edge
1714 Edward Betts
1767 John Wainwright
1768 Robert Wainwright
1775 Richard Wainwright
1783 Grifiith James Cheese
1804 William Sudlow
1831 William Sudlow and Joseph John Harris
1848 Joseph John Harris
1869 Frederick Bridge
1875 James Kendrick Pyne
1908 Sydney Nicholson
1919 Archibald W. Wilson
1943 Norman Cocker
1954 Allan Wicks
1962 Derrick Edward Cantrell
1977 Robert Vincent
1980–1981 Stephen Pinnock (organist)
1980–1992 Stuart Beer (Choirmaster)
1981–1992 Gordon Stewart (Gordon Brodie Stewart) (Organist)
1992–1996 Stuart Beer (Director of Music)
1992–1996 Christopher Stokes (Organist)
1996– Christopher Stokes (Organist and Master of the Choristers)

Assistant organists

1869–1871 Joseph Cox Bridge (later organist of Chester Cathedral)
1876 R.H. Wilson
?–1881 Minton Pyne
Samuel Myerscough
Richard Henry Mort
1895–1896 Herbert C. Morris (later organist of St David's Cathedral)
Frank Radcliffe (later organist of St. Wulfrum's Church, Grantham, and St. Mary's Church, Nottingham)
1908–1912 Richard Henry Coleman (later organist of Peterborough Cathedral)
1912–1919 Ernest Bullock
1919 Arnold Goldsbrough
1920–1925 Norman Cocker (also 1938)
1922–1923 Thomas Armstrong (afterwards organist of St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London)
1946– Edward Fry
1950– Douglas Steele
1968–1970 Jonathan Bielby (afterwards organist of Wakefield Cathedral)
1970–1974 Brian Hodge
1975–1980 Stephen Drew Pinnock (afterwards Director of Music at Ardingly College)
1999–2014 Jeffrey Makinson
2015 Geoff Woollatt

Newcastle Cathedral

Organists

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
2009 Michael Stoddart

Assistant organists

1928–1933 Thomas Christy (afterwards organist of Hexham Abbey)^[46]
1936 Clifford Harker (afterwards organist at Bristol Cathedral)
1959–1960 Michael Bryan Hesford (afterwards organist at Brecon Cathedral)
1960–1980 Graeme East (afterwards Organist St Chad's Gateshead then Warnham Parish Church. d.2010)
1980–1984 Keith Downie (Lay Clerk and sub-Assistant 1972-1980 & 1984-1988): now St Helen's Gateshead
1984–2009 Michael Dutton (afterwards Director of Music at Dame Allan's Schools)

Director of the Girls Choir and Sub-Organist

2010–2012 David Stevens (now Master of the Choristers at Belfast Cathedral)^[47]

Assistant Director of Music

2012–2015 James Norrey
2015 Kris Thomsett

Norwich Cathedral

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

Organists and Masters of the Music

1313 Adam the Organist
1424 Thomas Wath
1445 John Skarlette
1542 Thomas Grewe
1560 Edmund Inglott
1583 Thomas Morley
1593 William Baker
1594 Willim Cobbold
1608 William Inglott
1621 Richard Gibbs
1661 Richard Aylward
1664 Thomas Gibbs
1666 Richard Aylward
1670 Thomas Pleasants
1689 James Cooper
1721 Humphrey Cotton
1749 Thomas Garland
1808 John Christmas Beckwith
1809 John Charles Beckwith
1819 Zechariah Buck
1877 Francis Edward Gladstone
1881 Frederick Cook Atkinson
1885 Frank Bates
1928 Heathcote Dicken Statham
1967 Brian Runnett
1971 Michael Nicholas
1994 David Anthony Cooper
1995 Neil Taylor (Acting)
1996 David Dunnett
2007 David Lowe (Master of Music), David Dunnett continues as organist.
2011 David Dunnett (Acting Organist and Master of the Music)
2012 Ashley Grote

Assistant Organists

1815–19 Zechariah Buck (afterwards organist)
Thomas Wolsey White
????-1845 George Augustus Löhr
1850s Alfred R. Gaul
1850s Frederick Cook Atkinson
1855–77 Edward Bunnett
Arthur Henry Mann
Philip Chignell
A. Miller Potts
1895 C. H. Duffield
Claude Alan Forster
Herbert J. Dawson^[48]
1903–05 Alfred Heath^[49]
1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams
1907–08 Nelson Victor Edwards^[50]
1910–14 Wilfrid Greenhouse Allt^[51]
1978–???? Malcolm Archer
1983–90 Adrian Lucas
1990–97 Neil Taylor (later organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
Katherine Dienes-Williams
Julian Thomas
Ben Giddons
Tom Primrose

Oxford, Christ Church Cathedral

First among the notable organists of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford is the Renaissance composer John Taverner. Other significant composers and conductors are Basil Harwood, Thomas Armstrong, Simon Preston and Nicholas Cleobury.

Organists

1530 John Taverner
1564 Bartholomew Lant
1611 Matthew White
1613 William Stonard
1630 Edward Lowe
1682 William Husbands
1690 Charles Husbands
1691 Richard Goodson (Sr)
1718 Richard Goodson (Jr)
1741 Richard Church
1776 Thomas Norris
1790 William Crotch
1807 William Cross
1825 William Marshall
1846 Charles William Corfe
1882 Charles Harford Lloyd
1892 Basil Harwood
1909 Henry George Ley
1926 Noel Edward Ponsonby
1929 William Henry Harris
1933 Thomas Armstrong
1955 Sydney Watson
1970 Simon Preston
1981 Francis Grier
1985 Stephen Darlington

Assistant Organists

1753 William Walond Sr.
1924 Sidney Thomas Mayow Newman
1928 ?
1938 Ivor Christopher Banfield Keys
1940 ?
1943 Alec Wyton
1946 Ivor Christopher Banfield Keys
1947 ?
1953 Harrison Oxley
1955 ?
1957 Anthony Crossland
1961 ?
1972 Nicholas Cleobury
197? Francis Grier
1981 ?
1986 Simon Lawford
1990 Stephen Farr
1996 David Goode

The position was renamed to become Sub Organist in September 2001

Sub Organists

2001 Clive Driskill-Smith

Organ Scholars

1941-1946 Allan Wicks
1949-1954 Ronald Edward Perrin
1951-1954 Harrison Oxley
1954-1957 Christopher Robinson
1957-1961 Anthony Crossland
1959-1962 Roger Fisher
1965-1968 Paul Morgan
1971-1974 Stephen Darlington
1974-1978 Colin Walsh
1978-1981 Mark Blatchly
1980-1983 Harry Bicket
1982-1985 Timothy Byram-Wigfield
1986-1989 Laurence Cummings
1992-1995 Timothy Noon
1996-1999 Clive Driskill-Smith
1998-2001 Neil Gaston-Nash
2000-2003 Christian Wilson
2002-2005 Elizabeth Burgess
2004-2007 Henry Parkes
2006-2009 Edward Tambling
2008-2011 Benjamin Sheen
2009-2012 Michael Heighway
2011-2014 Ghislaine Reece-Trapp
2012-2015 Alexander Pott
2015-present William Wallace

Peel, St German's Cathedral, Isle of Man (since 1980)

Organists

1980 – 2008 Mike Porter

Organist/Directors of Music

2008 Don Roworth
2012 Peter Litman

Organ Scholars

2015-2016 Jack Oades

Peterborough Cathedral

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

Masters of the Music

1540 Richard Storey
1569 John Tyesdale
1574 Richard Tiller
1584 John Mudd
1631 Thomas Mudd
1632 David Standish
1643 Vacant
1661 David Standish
1677 William Standish
1691 Roger Standish
1714 James Hawkins
1750 George Wright
1773 Garter Sharp
1777 James Rogers
1784 Richard Langdon
1785 John Calah
1799 Samuel Spofforth
1808 Thomas Knight
1812 Edmund Larkin
1836 John Speechley
1870 Haydn Keeton
1921 Dr Richard Henry Coleman
1944 Charles Cooper Francis
1946 Douglas Edward Hopkins (later Organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
1953 Dr Stanley Vann
1977 Christopher Gower
2004 Andrew Reid (Director of Music)
2013 Robert Quinney
2014 Stephen Grahl

Assistant Masters of the Music

Samuel Round
1895 George Pattman
1900–02 H. M. Goodacre^[52]
1902–03 Arthur Griffin Claypole^[53]
1905–10 Charles Cooper Francis (later appointed Master of the Music)
1911–14 Malcolm Sargent (Articled Pupil/Assistant to Haydn Keeton)
1915–17 Thomas Armstrong (Articled Pupil/Assistant, later Principal of the Royal Academy of Music)
1918–25 Eric John Fairclough^[54]
1930–31 J. Durham Holl
1932–? R. Shield
ca. 1938 Derek John Clare
ca. 1938 Desmond Swinburn
1950–53 John Malcolm Tyler^[6] (later Assistant Organist at Canterbury Cathedral)
1954–55 Philip Joseph Lank (later Organist of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham)
1956–59 Malcolm Ernest Cousins^[55] (later Organist of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Mansfield)
Eric Wayman (later Organist of St Botolph's Church, Boston)
1960 Eric Howard Fletcher (later Professor of Music in USA)
Richard Latham (later Assistant Organist at Gloucester Cathedral)
1964–71 Barry Ferguson (later Organist of Rochester Cathedral)
1971–80 Andrew Robert Newberry
1980–86 Simon Lawford (later Director of Music at St George's Cathedral, Perth)
1986–92? Gary Sieling (later Director of Music at St Peter's Church, Nottingham and Bromley Parish Church)
1993–95 Simon Bowler
1994–2007 Mark Duthie (later Organist of Brecon Cathedral)
1998–2002 Thomas Moore (Assistant Organist, later Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral)
2002–07 Oliver Waterer (Assistant Organist, later Director of Music at St David's Cathedral)
2007–11 Francesca Massey (Assistant Director of Music, later Sub Organist of Durham Cathedral)
2011–present David Humphreys

Plymouth Cathedral

The Catholic Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Boniface – built in 1858

Directors of Music

1996–1998 Robert Osmond (formerly Director of Music at Sacred Heart and S Teresa, Paignton)
1998–2001 Kevin Holmes
2001–Present Christopher Fletcher (formerly Director of Music at Totnes Parish Church)

Assistant Directors of Music

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

Organists

1995–1997 Timothy J Lewis (former Anglican Priest and now Catholic Priest)
1950s Webster Mansfield formerly organist at Holy Cross Plymouth

Portsmouth Cathedral

Organists

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

Sub-Organists

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

Organ Scholars

1999 James Davy
2000 William Ings
2001 Edward Taylor
2002 Richard Hills
2003 Christopher Eastwood
2008 Max Puller
2009 William Drakett
2010 Kate Macpherson
2011 Nick Miller
2012 David Harris
2013 William Wallace
2014 Callum Alger
2015 Luke Fitzgerald

Ripon Cathedral

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

Organists

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^[56]
1799 William F. M. Ayrton^[56]
1802 Nicholas T. D. Ayrton
1823 John Henry Bond
1829 George Bates
1874 Edwin John Crow
1902 Charles Harry Moody, CBE (formerly organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
1954 Lionel Frederick Dakers
1957 Philip Marshall
1966 Ronald Edward Perrin
1994 Kerry Beaumont
2002 Andrew Bryden (Acting)
2003 Simon Morley
2003 Andrew Bryden

Assistant Organists

Edward Brown^[57]
1876–81 Henry Taylor^[58]
???? J. William-Render^[59]
William Rains
William Edward Cave
Edgar Alfred Lane
????-1887 Herbert Arthur Wheeldon^[60]
1887–90 Charles Morton Bailey
Edgar Watson
ca. 1908 C. Richards^[61]
David Lamb
1925–27 Leonard Bagguley^[62]^[63] (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 made official.

1928–35 Dennis Cocks
1935–39 Alfred H. Allsop
WWII 1939 – 1947
1947–52 Alex Forrest
1952–55 Paul Mace
1955–56 Keith Bond
1956–58 Peter Anthony Stanley Stevenson^[64]
1958–63 Laurence Gibbon
1963–74 Alan Dance
1974–86 Marcus Huxley (later organist of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham)
1986–98 Robert Marsh
1998–2003 Andrew Bryden (then organist)
2003-4 Stephen Power (Acting)
2004–08 Thomas Leech
2009–13 Edmund Aldhouse
2013–14 Ben Horden (acting)
2014– Tim Harper

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.

Organists

1559 James Plomley,
1588 Roper Blundell,
1599 John Williams,
1614 John Heath,
1672 Charles Wren,
1674 Daniel Henstridge,
1699 Robert Bowers
1704 John Spain,
1721 Charles Peach,
1753 Joseph Howe,
1781 Richard Howe,
1790 Ralph Banks,
1841 John Larkin Hopkins,
1856 John Hopkins,
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby,
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart,
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett,
1956–77 Robert Ashfield,
1977–94 Barry Ferguson,
1994–2008 Roger Sayer
2008–present Scott Farrell

Assistant Organists

Henry Edmund Ford
1850–56 Philip Armes
1859–65 Frederick Bridge^[65]
Alfred Alexander
ca.1868 Joseph Bridge (later organist of Chester Cathedral)
1899–1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902–08 Hector E. Shallcross
1919–21 Alfred H. Allen
1921–30 Percy Whitlock (then organist of St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth)
1930–76 James Alfred Levett
1976–81 David Poulter (subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, and Liverpool Cathedral)
1982–89 Paul Hale (now organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster)
1989–94 Roger Sayer
1994–98 William Whitehead
1998–2001 Sean Farrell
2001–02 James Eaton (acting)
2002–06 Edmund Aldhouse
2006–10 Dan Soper
2010–14 Samuel Rathbone
2014–present Claire Innes-Hopkins

Cathedral Organists

2008–13 Roger Sayer
2014–2015 Adrian Bawtree

Assistant Sub-Organists

2015 Ben Bloor
2016 James Norrey

St Albans Cathedral

List of organists of St Albans Cathedral

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. Andrew Lucas is the current Master of the Music.^[66] 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.

Organists

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
1880 George Gaffe
1907 Willie Lewis Luttman
1930 Cuthbert E. Osmond
1937 Albert Charles Tysoe
1947 Meredith Davies
1951 Claude Peter Primrose Burton
1957 Peter Hurford
1978 Stephen Darlington
1985 Colin Walsh
1988 Barry Rose
1998 Andrew Lucas

Assistant Organists

1908–09 John Cawley^[67]
1921–30 George C. Straker
1936–39 Sydney John Barlow^[68]
1945–51 Frederick Carter
1951–70 John Henry Freeman^[69]
1970–75 Simon Lindley
1975–76 John Clough
1976–2001 Andrew Parnell
2001–08 Simon Johnson (later Assistant Director of Music St Paul's Cathedral)
2008–current Tom Winpenny

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, David Valentine Willcocks, Richard Godfrey Seal and the BBC presenter Simon Lole.

Organists

1463 John Kegewyn
1563 Robert Chamberlayne
1568 Thomas Smythe
1587 John Farrant (Senior)^[70]
1598–1602 John Farrant (Junior)^[71]
1602–10 John Holmes (previously organist of Winchester Cathedral)^[72]
1618 Edward Tucker
1629 Giles Tompkins
1668–87 Michael Wise
1689 Peter Isaacke
1692–98 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
1916–47 Walter Galpin Alcock, MVO
1947 David Valentine Willcocks, CBE, MC
1950 Douglas Albert Guest
1957 Christopher Hugh Dearnley
1968 Richard Godfrey Seal
1997 Simon Lole
2005 David Halls (Director of Music)

Assistant Organists

1845?–63 John Elliott Richardson (then organist)
Thomas Bentinck Richardson
1881–84 Albert Edward Wilshire
1886–89 George Street Chignell^[73]
1917 Herbert Howells
1917–27 Cuthbert Edward Osmond (later organist of St Albans Abbey)
1933–47 Reginald Moore (later organist of Exeter Cathedral)
1947–50 John Charles Stirling Forster
1947–54 Ronald Tickner^[74]
1954–57 Christopher Hugh Dearnley
1957–66 Richard Hey Lloyd
1967–74 Michael John Smith (then organist of Llandaff Cathedral)
1974–1978 Jonathan Rees-Williams (later organist of Lichfield Cathedral and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle)
1978–1985 Colin Walsh (later organist of St Albans Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral)
1985–2005 David Halls
2005–2011 Daniel Cook (Assistant Director of Music, now Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey)
2011–2012 Vacant
2012–present John Challenger (Assistant Director of Music)

Sheffield Cathedral

Organists and Directors of Music

1805 John Mather
1810 Jonathan Blewitt
1811 Robert Bennett
1819 John Camidge
1819 Mr Gledhill
1820 Joseph Bottomley
1860 George Henry Smith
1875 Thomas Tallis Trimnell
1886 Edwin H Lemare
1892 Thomas William Hanforth
1937 Reginald Tustin Baker
1967 Graham Matthews
1991 Paul Brough
1994 Simon Lole
1997 Neil Taylor
2016

Assistant Directors of Music

Joshua Hales

Assistant Master of the Music

?-1995 Tim Horton

1995-1999 Chris Betts

1999 Mark Pybus

1999-2005 Peter Heginbotham

2005-2012 Anthony Gowing Sub Organists

? - 1976 Hubert Stafford
1975 -1979 David G Read
1979 - ? Paul Parsons

Organ Scholars

1966 - 1969? Alan Thurlow
1971-1974 David Read

1992-1995 Colin Davey 1995-1998 Peter Heginbotham 1998-2000 John Swindells 2000-2001 William Saunders 2002-2003 Charles Janz 2003-2004 Duncan Barlow 2004-2005 Andrew Furniss

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 Ralph Downes.

Organists

1897 Alfred Madeley Richardson
1908 Edgar Tom Cook
1953 Sidney Schofield Campbell
1956 Harold Dexter
1968 Ernest Herbert Warrell
1976 Harry Wakefield Bramma
1989 Peter Michael Wright

Assistant Organists

F. Stanley Winter
1908–1917 Charles Edgar Ford
1917–1922 Francis W. Sutton
1922 J.C. Bradshaw 1922
1923–25 Ralph William Downes
1934–35 Philip Miles
1936 Ernest F.A. Suttle
1937–54 Ernest Herbert Warrell^[75]
1955–56 William Allen Humpherson^[76]
1957–59 Denys Darlow
1959–1962 John Flower, Alan Dance, John Oxlade
1962–1970 Arthur Newell
1971–1974 Christopher Jenkins
1975–78 Nicholas Woods
1978–85 John Scott
1985–88 Andrew Lumsden
1988–97 Stephen Layton
1997 Stephen Disley

Organ Scholars

2000–02 Daniel Cook
2002–04 Ian Keatley
2004–05 Martin Ford
2005–07 David Pipe
2007–08 Tim Wakerell
2008–10 Tom Little
2010–12 Jonathan Hope (later Organ Scholar of Winchester Cathedral, then Assistant Director of Music, Gloucester Cathedral)
2012–2014 Martyn Noble
2014–present Alexander Binns

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.

Rectores Chori

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
171-54 William Lee
1754–55 Samuel Wise 1
1755–64 Edmund Ayrton
1764–81 Thomas Spofforth
1818–35 Edward Heathcote
1835–41 Frederick Gunton
1841–57 Chappell Batchelor
1857–72 Herbert Stephen Irons
1872–76 Cedric Bucknall
1876–79 William Weaver Ringrose
1879–88 W Arthur Marriott
1888–1918 Robert William Liddle
1918–29 Harry William Tupper
1929–46 George Thomas Francis
1946–56 Robert James Ashfield
1956–59 David James Lumsden
1959–89 Kenneth Bernard Beard
1989–Aug 2016 Paul Robert Hale

Organists

Assistant Organists:

????-1861 W.D. Hall^[77]
ca. 1868 E.D. Hoe^[78]
ca. 1870 H. Nicholson
????-1885 G. Fletcher^[79]
1890-1897 Alfred Winterbotham^[80]
1897–1902 Lawrence Frederick Baguley^[81]
1903–04 Sydney Weale (formerly assistant organist at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent)
Oswald Steele^[82]
1958–94 Peter Wood
1994–2002 Philip Rushforth (now Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
2002–08 Simon Bell (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:

2008–12 Philip White-Jones (previously Assistant Organist at Winchester Cathedral)
2012–present Simon Hogan (previously Organ Scholar at St Paul's Cathedral)

Organ Scholars

Charles Harrison Organ Scholarship

1992–93 Matthew Halls (later director of The King's Consort, now the Retrospect Ensemble)
1994–95 David Soar (now Professional Operatic Bass)
1995-06 David Gostick (now Musical Director of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir and Organist and Master of the Choristers, Wimborne Minster)
1997–98 Thomas Wiggall (now Composer and Teacher of Music Surbiton High School, Surrey)
1998–99 Anthony Smith (now Research Fellow, University of Sussex)

David McIntosh Organ Scholarship

1999–2000 Matthew O'Donovan (now Director of Lower Chapel Music, Eton College)
2000–01 Christopher Bucknall (now Director of Music and Organist, St Mary's Church, Barnes)
2001–02 Oliver Lallemant (now Assistant Director of Music, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London)
2002–03 Charles Sega (now Organist and Choirmaster, The Episcopal Church of the Atonement, Chicago)
2003–04 Stephen Moore (now Organist and Director of Choral Music at Felsted School and Director of Music, St Matthew's Church Northampton)
2004–05 Dr Emma Gibbins (later Director of Music St. George's Church, Belfast, currently Director of Music at Newport Cathedral)
2005–06 Simon Earl (now Director of Music, Christchurch Priory)
2006–07 Daniel Battle (then Associate Organist, St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, now Director, Scholæ Filiorum, Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Cork)
2007–08 Richard Moore (then Organ Scholar, St John's College, Oxford, now Organ Scholar, St Paul's Cathedral)
2008–09 Peter Holder (now Organ Scholar, Westminster Abbey)
2009–11 Jonathan Turner (now Director of Music, St Stephen's Church, London)
2011–13 Hilary Punnett (later Assistant Organist of Lincoln Cathedral)
2013–present David Quinn (previously Organ Scholar, St Peter's College, Oxford)

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.

Organists and Masters of the Choristers

1881 George Robertson Sinclair (later organist of Hereford Cathedral : the G. R. S. of Elgar's Enigma Variations)
1890 Mark James Monk
1920 Hubert Stanley Middleton (later organist of Ely Cathedral and Trinity College, Cambridge)
1926 John Dykes Bower
1929 Guillaume Ormond
1971 John Charles Winter (later Organist Emeritus)
1989 David Briggs (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
1994 Andrew Nethsingha (currently Director of Music at St John's College, Cambridge)
2002 Robert Sharpe (currently Director of Music at York Minster)
2008 Christopher Gray

Assistant Organists

1885–1886 Ivor Atkins
1902–1907 Frederick Rowland Tims
1907–1911 William Stanley Sutton
1911 Mr. Hall
Donald Behenna
1922–1926 Gerald Hocken Knight
Arthur William Baines
1971-1991 Henry Doughty
1950–1971 John Charles Winter (later Organist and Organist Emeritus)
1991–2000 Simon Morley
2000–2008 Christopher Gray
2008–present Luke Bond

Organ Scholars

1993-1994 Ben Lamb (currently Director of Music, Lichfield Cathedral) 1994-1995 Peter Heginbotham (later Assistant Master of the Music, Sheffield Cathedral) 1995-1996 Philip Stopford 1996-1997 Mark Williams (currently Dirsctor of Music, Jesus College Cambridge)

1998–1999 Luke Bond (currently Assistant Organist since 2008)
1999–2000 Christopher Teel
2000–2001 Andrew Senn
2001–2002 Nicholas Wearne (later Assistant Organist at St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh)
2003–2004 Tom Wilkinson (currently Organist at University of St Andrews)
2004–2005 Claire Cousens
2005–2006 Tom Little
2006–2007 David Moore (later Assistant Director of Music at Hampstead Parish Church, London)
2007–2008 Shiloh Roby (later Organ Scholar of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)
2008–2009 Joshua Hales (currently Assistant Director of Music at Sheffield Cathedral)
2009–2010 Donald Hunt (currently Assistant Organist at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh)
2010–2011 Sachin Gunga (currently Assistant Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral)
2011–2012 Edward Symington (afterwards Organ Scholar at Westminster Cathedral)
2012–2013 Harry Meehan (currently Organ Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford)
2013–2014 Rachel Mahon (currently Organ Scholar at St Paul's Cathedral)
2014–2015 James Orford

Wakefield Cathedral

Organists

1886 Joseph Naylor Hardy
1930 Newell Smith Wallbank
1945 Percy George Saunders
1970–2010 Jonathan Bielby MBE
2010– Thomas Moore

Assistant Organists

1896–1900 William Frederick Dunnill ^[83]
John Scott
1975–1983 Peter David Gould
1983–1985 Gareth Green^[84]
1985–1991 Keith Wright
1991–1996 Sean Farrell
1996–2002 Louise Reid
2002–2010 Thomas Moore
2010 Daniel Justin
2011–2015 Simon Earl
2015– Sachin Gunga

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,^[85] which was enlarged in 1786,^[86] and again in 1855.^[87] In 1909–1910 a new organ was built by Harrison & Harrison with the best parts of old organ retained,^[88] and this has been maintained by the same company since.^[89]

Organists

1416–1418 Walter Bagele (or Vageler)^[90]
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
1613–1614 Edmund Tucker
1614–1619 Richard Brown
1619–1642 John Oker (or Okeover)
1663–1674 John Brown
1674 Mr Hall
1674–1688 John Jackson
1688–1690 Robert Hodge
1690–1712 John George
1713–1726 William Broderip
1726 Joseph Millard
1727–1740 William Evans
1741 Jacob Nickells
1741–1771 John Broderip
1771–1773 Peter Parfitt
1773–1781 Robert Parry
1781–1820 Dodd Perkins
1820–1859 William Perkins
1859–1895 Charles Williams Lavington
1896–1899 Percy Carter Buck
1899–1933 Revd. Canon Thomas Henry Davis
1933–1936 Conrad William Eden
1936–1971 Denys Pouncey
1971–1996 Anthony Crossland
1996–2004 Malcolm Archer
2004–2005 Rupert Gough (acting)
2005 Matthew Owens^[91]

Assistant Organists

1842 – 1859 Charles William Lavington
J. Summers
c. 1880 Frederick Joseph William Crowe^[92] (later organist of Chichester Cathedral) c.1880
1894 – 1895 Charles Harry Moody (then acting organist 1895)
1896 – 1897 Frederick William Heck^[93] (afterwards organist of Bedminster Parish Church)
W. J. Bown^[94]
1904 – 1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams (later sub-organist of Norwich Cathedral).
1906 Kenneth J Miller^[95]
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)
1938 J.W. Martindale-Sidwell
1946 – 1953 Michael Peterson
1961 – 1970 Anthony Crossland
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 –present Jonathan Vaughn

Senior Organ Scholars

2002 David Bednall
2006 Samuel Hudson
2009 Oliver Walker
2010 Stephen Buzard
2011 Sachin Gunga
2012 Owain Park
2013 Jeremy Woodside
2014 Nicholas Freestone
2015 Bryan Anderson

Junior Organ Scholars

2004-06 Benedict Lewis-Smith
2012-14 William Fox

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, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the composer of sacred music, and Martin Neary who arranged the music for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Organists

1402 John Dyer
???? Richard Wynslade
1572 John Langton
???? John Holmes
1602 John Lante
1615 George Bath
1631 Thomas Holmes
1638 Christopher Gibbons
1661 John Silver
1666 Randolph Jewitt
1675 John Reading
1681 Daniel Roseingrave
1693 Vaughan Richardson
1729 John Bishop
1737 James Kent
1774 Peter Fussell
1802 George William Chard (also Mayor of Winchester)
1849 Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1865 George Benjamin Arnold
1902 William Prendergast
1933 Harold Rhodes
1949 Reginald Alwyn Surplice
1972 Martin Neary
1988 David Hill
2002 Andrew Lumsden

Assistant Organists

1787–1808 George William Chard
1851–54 George Mursell Garrett (later organist of Madras Cathedral)
1863–?? Thomas Somerford
????-1869 E.H. Birch
1876 Charles Lee Williams
William Prendergast (later organist)
1898–???? Alfred Ernest Floyd
E. Gilbert
1902–04 Louis H. Torr^[96]
1906 G.C. Macklin
1910 H.R. Eady
Henry William Radford
1912–21 Henry William Stubbington^[97] (later organist of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham)
1922 Hilda Bird
Horace Hawkins
W. Brennand Smith
1958–67 Graham Hedley Matthews (later organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
1967–?? Clement McWilliam^[98]
1975–85 James Lancelot (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Durham Cathedral)
1985–91 Timothy Byram-Wigfield (later St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal), Jesus College, Cambridge and St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle)
1991–96 David Dunnett (later Organist and Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral)
1996–98 Stephen Farr (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Guildford Cathedral and Worcester College, Oxford)
1999–2002 Philip Scriven (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Lichfield Cathedral)
2002–08 Sarah Baldock (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Chichester Cathedral)
2003–08 Philip White-Jones (later Assistant Director of Music at Southwell Minster)
2008 Richard McVeigh (Assistant Organist)
2008–12 Simon Bell (Assistant Director of Music)
2012–present George Castle

Organ Scholars

1984–85 David Halls (later Assistant Organist, then Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral)
Mark Elliott-Smith
1990–91 Meirion Wynn Jones
1991–93 Katherine Dienes-Williams (later Organist Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Assistant Organist Norwich Cathedral, Director of Music St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick now Master of the Choristers and Director of Music Guildford Cathedral)
1994–95 Robert Quinney
1995–96 Clive Driskill-Smith
1996–98 Christopher Monks
1998–99 Christopher Whitton
2002–03 James Sherlock
2012–14 Jonathan Hope (later Assistant Director of Music, Gloucester Cathedral)
2014 Timothy Parsons (later Assistant Director of Music, Exeter Cathedral)

Worcester Cathedral

Organists of Worcester Cathedral have included the composers Thomas Tomkins, William Hayes, and conductors David Willcocks, Douglas Guest and Adrian Lucas.

Organists

1240 Thomas the Organist*
1415 T. Hulet*
1468 Richard Grene
1484 John Hampton
1522 Daniel Boyse
1541 Richard Fisher
1569 John Golden
1581 Nathaniel Giles
1585 Robert Cotterell
1590 Nathaniel Patrick
1595 John Fido
1596 Thomas Tomkins
1649 Vacant
1661 Giles Tomkins
1662 Richard Browne
1664 Richard Davis
1686 Vaughan Richardson
1688 Richard Cherington
1724 John Hoddinott
1731 William Hayes
1734 John Merifield
1747 Elias Isaac
1793 Thomas Pitt
1806 Jeremiah Clark
1807 William Kenge
1813 Charles Clarke
1844 William Done
1895 Hugh Blair
1897 Ivor Atkins
1950 David Willcocks
1957 Douglas Guest
1963 Christopher Robinson
1974 Donald Hunt
1996 Adrian Lucas
2012 Christopher Allsop (Acting Director of Music)
2012–present Peter Nardone

Assistant Organists

1835–44 William Done (later organist)
1846–47 John Roberts Boulcott
c. 1860 Alfred James Caldicott
1865 Robert Taylor
????-1876 William Edward Wadeley
1879 Mr. Garton
James Henry Caseley (later organist of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Henry Holloway
1887–95 Hugh Blair
1893–99 Frank Alfred Charles Mason^[99]
1893–96 George Street Chignell^[100]
1904–09 Edgar Thomas Cook
????-1912 Alexander E. Brent Smith
1912–62 Edgar F.Day
1962–63 Christopher Robinson (later organist of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle)
1963–76 Harry Bramma (later organist of Southwark Cathedral)
1976–81 Paul Trepte (later organist of Ely Cathedral)
1981–91 Adrian Partington (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
1991–98 Raymond Johnston
1998–2004 Daniel Phillips
2004–present Christopher Allsop (Assistant Director of Music, 2012–present)

Sub-Assistant Organists (and Voluntary Choir Choirmasters)

2007–08 Simon Bertram
2008–12 George Castle (later Assistant Organist at Winchester Cathedral)
2012–2014 James Luxton (later Assistant Director of Music at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)
2014–present Justin Miller

Organists of the Worcester Cathedral Voluntary Choir

19??-present John Wilderspin

York Minster

List of the organists of York Minster on the wall of the north transept

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 John Naylor, T. Tertius Noble and Francis Jackson.

Organists

The organists of York Minster have had several official titles, 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".

1633 James Hutchinson
1662 J. H. Charles
1667 Thomas Preston
1691 Thomas Wanless
1695 J.Heath
1715 Charles Murgatroyd
1721 William Davies
1722 Charles Quarles
1734 James Nares
1756 John Camidge
1799 Matthew Camidge
1842 John Camidge
1848 Thomas Simpson Camidge
1859 Edwin George Monk
1883 John Naylor
1897 T. Tertius Noble
1913 Edward Bairstow
1946 Francis Jackson
1983 Philip Moore
2008 Robert Sharpe

Assistant Organists

1842–48 Thomas Simpson Camidge
????-1878 Edward Johnson Bellerby
????-1879 Mark James Monk
1891–92 Thomas William Hanforth
1892 Charles Legh Naylor
????-1902 Frederick Flaxington Harker
1902–06 Edwin Fairbourn
1906–10 William Green
1910–14 Cyril Francis Musgrove^[101]^[102]
1917–23 Harold Aubie Bennett
1924–29 J. Lawrence Slater
1929–41, 1946 Owen Le Patourel Franklin^[103]
1945 Frederick Arthur Sefton Cottom
1946–47 Francis Jackson
1947–54 Allan Wicks^[104]
1954–57 Eric Parsons
1957–66 Ronald Edward Perrin
1966–67 Peter J. Williams
1969–71 A. Wilson Dixon
1971–75 Geoffrey Coffin
1976–2002 John Scott Whiteley (Organist, 2001–2010)
2010–16 David Pipe

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↑ Thornsby, 1912, p. 251.
↑ Thornsby, 1912, p. 309.
↑ Dictionary of organs and organists. First Edition. 1912. p. 340.
↑ Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 204.
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[1] Blackburn Standard - Saturday 18 February 1882

[2] The Musical Times. 1 December 1900

[3] Toby Huitson, The Organs of Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury: Cathedral Enterprises, Ltd., 2001. ISBN 0-906211-51-4.

[4] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 276.

[5] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 197.

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[7] Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 31.

[8] Ian Hare.

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[11] Scholes, 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).

[12] Scholes, Percy A. (1970) The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed. London: Oxford U. P.; p. 123b.

[13] 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.

[14] Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 44.

[15] The Western Times, 6 Jul 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.

[16] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 252.

[17] Thornsby (1912); p. 291.

[18] Thornsby (1912); p. 265.

[19] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 30.

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[21] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 201.

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[23] Gloucester Citizen – Saturday 13 October 1906.

[24] Simmons (1962) Who's who in music and musicians' international directory p. 168.

[25] Simmons (1962) Who's who in music and musicians' international directory p. 45.

[26] Gloucester Citizen – Friday 5 January 1945.

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[28] Who's Who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 12.

[29] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 302.

[30] Thornsby (1912); p. 292.

[31] Thornsby (1912); p. 257.

[32] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 180.

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[35] Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p.229

[36] The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture By W. J. McCormack, Patrick Gillan.

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[39] Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 1 January 1864.

[40] Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 9 December 1870.

[41] Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 20 October 1871.

[42] Derby Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 29 March 1881.

[43] Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 20 January 1893.

[44] Lincolnshire Chronicle – Tuesday 18 December 1894.

[45] Who's Who in Music. First Post War Edition. 1949–50.

[46] The Organ. Volume XX. 1941

[47] Newcastle cathedral website, list of staff URL accessed November 5th, 2009

[48] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 267.

[49] Thornsby (1912); p. 286.

[50] Thornsby (1912); p. 271.

[51] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 4.

[52] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 279.

[53] Thornsby (1912); p. 259.

[54] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 69.

[55] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 47.

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[57] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 254.

[58] Thornsby (1912); p. 337.

[59] Glasgow Herald 4 July 1888.

[60] Derby Mercury, 2 February 1887.

[61] Lichfield Mercury 22 May 1908.

[62] Nottingham Evening Post 27 July 1925.

[63] Western Morning News 16 December 1927.

[64] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 202.

[DOR252-65] Dictionary of Organs and Organists p. 252.

[66] Andrew Lucas (St Albans Bach Choir).

[67] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 257.

[68] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 14.

[69] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 243.

[70] 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.

[71] Scholes; p. 908.

[72] Scholes; pp. 483, 908.

[73] Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan; p. 258.

[74] Who's Who in Music; 4th ed. 1962; p. 212.

[75] Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 224.

[76] Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 244.

[77] Sheffield Independent – Saturday 19 January 1861.

[78] Grantham Journal – Saturday 18 January 1868.

[79] Derby Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 27 May 1885.

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[81] Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912.

[82] Derby Daily Telegraph – Friday 4 January 1918.

[83] 20th Century Cathedral Organists. Enid Bird

[Green-84] Horsforth Music Festival 2008 Music adjudicator

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[92] Thornsby, 1912, p. 264.

[93] Thornsby, 1912, p. 286.

[94] Thornsby, 1912, p. 251.

[95] Thornsby, 1912, p. 309.

[96] Dictionary of organs and organists. First Edition. 1912. p. 340.

[97] Who's who in Music. Fourth Edition. 1962. p. 204.

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[99] Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912. p. 306.

[100] Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912. p. 258.

[101] York Minster Chant Book, 1974.

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List of musicians at English cathedrals

Contents

Arundel Cathedral

Directors of Music

Birmingham, St Philip's Cathedral

Directors of Music

Assistant Organists

Blackburn Cathedral

Organists

Bradford Cathedral

Organist and Master of the Choristers

Organist & Director of Music

Cathedral Organist

Sub-Organist & Assistant Director of Music

Bristol Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Canterbury Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Second Assistant Organists

Organ Scholars

Carlisle Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Chester Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Chichester Cathedral

Organists and Masters of the Choristers

Assistant Organists

Organ Scholars

Coventry Cathedral

Directors of Music

Assistant Organists

Derby Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Durham Cathedral

Organists

Sub-Organists

Assistant Organists

Organ Scholars

Ely Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Directors of the Girls' Choir

Assistant Organists of the Girls' Choir

Exeter Cathedral

Organists / Directors of Music

Assistant Organists (Organist from 1999)

Assistant Directors of Music

Assistant Organists

Gloucester Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Guildford Cathedral

Organists

Sub-Organists

Hereford Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Organ Scholars

Leeds Cathedral

Master of the Choristers

Master of Music

Directors of Music

Cathedral Organists

Leicester Cathedral

Organists and Directors of Music

Assistant Organists and Assistant Directors of Music

Lichfield Cathedral

Organists

Directors of Music

Assistant Organists

Lincoln Cathedral

Organists

Assistant Organists

Assistant Directors of Music

Liverpool Cathedral