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The following list tells you about the people who have been organists at Church of England cathedrals in England.

English cathedrals have a long history of special music, often played on or with the help of the organ. The cathedral organist is a paid job. This person often also leads the choir, like a choirmaster. Sometimes there's also an assistant organist and a student organist, called an organ scholar.

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Birmingham, St Philip's Cathedral

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

Directors of Music

  • 1715 Barnabas Gunn
  • 1733? William de St. Thunes
  • 1735? John Ohio Eversman
  • 1765 Jeremiah Clark (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
  • 1803 Bishop Simms
  • 1829 Henry Simms
  • 1871 Charles John Blood Meacham
  • 1888 Richard Yates Mander
  • 1898 A. G. Thompson
  • 1901 Arthur Elmore
  • 1906 Edwin Stephenson
  • 1914 William Frederick Dunnill
  • 1936 Willis Grant
  • 1958 Thomas Tunnard
  • 1968 Roy Massey (later organist of Hereford Cathedral)
  • 1974 David Bruce-Payne
  • 1978 Hubert Best
  • 1986 Marcus Huxley
  • 2018 David Hardie (Head of Music)

Assistant Organists

  • 1907–1914 T. Appleby Matthews
  • 1950–1951 Harrison Oxley
  • 1954–1956 John K. Nicholas
  • Malcolm Hicks
  • 1966–1968 Roland L. Keen
  • 1968–1974 John Pryer
  • Hubert Best (later became the main organist)
  • 1978–1979 Gary Cole
  • Timothy Storey
  • 1986–1995 Rosemary Field
  • 1995–1997 Rupert Jeffcoat (later Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral)
  • 1997–2004 Christopher Allsop
  • 2004–2010 Stuart Nicholson
  • 2010–2014 Tim Harper
  • 2014–2018 David Hardie (later Head of Music at Birmingham Cathedral)
  • 2019– Ashley Wagner (Assistant Head of Music)

Blackburn Cathedral

Important organists at Blackburn Cathedral include Charles Hylton Stewart and John Bertalot.

Directors of Music

  • 1828–1831 Joseph John Harris (later organist of Manchester Cathedral)
  • 1832 R. Nimmo (temporary)
  • 1832–1838 Henry Smart
  • 1838–1840 John Bishop
  • 1840–1848 William Robinson
  • 1848–1858 Joseph Rolley
  • 1858–1863 Charles Greenwood
  • 1863–1870 James H. Robinson
  • 1870–1882 Thomas S. Hayward
  • 1882–1888 Walter Handel Thorley
  • 1888–1900 James H. Rooks
  • 1900–1912 Christie Green
  • 1912–1914 Richard Henry Coleman
  • 1914–1916 Charles Hylton Stewart (later organist of Rochester Cathedral)
  • 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
  • 2011–2019 Samuel Hudson
  • 2019– John Robinson

Assistant Directors of Music

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

Bradford Cathedral

Here are the organists who have worked at 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

  • 2012–2016 Alexander Woodrow
  • 2017– 2023 Alexander Berry
  • 2023 - Graham Thorpe (Interim Organist and Director of Music)

Sub-Organist & Assistant Director of Music

  • 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 - Anthony Gray

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 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

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
  • 1956-1959 Lionel Pike
  • Stephen Taylor
  • John Jenkin
  • 1980–1986 Martin Schellenberg
  • 1986–1989 Tony Pinel
  • 1989–1991 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 and Gerald Hocken Knight. Also, musical directors Sidney Campbell and Allan Wicks.

Organists

  • 1407 John Mounds
  • 1420 William Stanys
  • 1445 John Cranbroke
  • 1499 Thomas Seawall
  • 1534 John Wodynsborowe
  • 1547 William Shelbye (also known as Selby)
  • 1553 Thomas Bull
  • 1564 William Shelbye
  • 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 Evance 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
  • 2020 David Newsholme (acting)
  • 2021 David Newsholme

Assistant Organists

  • 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 Soames
  • 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

Carlisle Cathedral

Organists of Carlisle Cathedral
Plaque in Carlisle Cathedral

Important organists at Carlisle Cathedral include the composer and scientist Thomas Greatorex. Also, Sir Sydney Nicholson, who started the Royal School of Church Music.

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
  • 1842 Henry Edmund Ford
  • 1903 E. G. Mercer (acting)
  • 1904 Sydney Nicholson (acting) (later Sir Sydney Nicholson)
  • 1910 Frederick William Wadely
  • 1960 Robert Andrew Seivewright
  • 1991 Jeremy Suter
  • 2017 Mark Duthie

Assistant Organists

  • 1900–1902 Stanley G. P. Stubbs
  • 1915–1919 Charles Frederick Eastwood
  • 1932–1934 G. F. Stuart
  • 1940–1945 Keith Burton-Nickson
  • 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
  • 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

Chelmsford Cathedral

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

Masters of the Music

Assistant Directors of Music

  • 1999 Edward Wellman
  • 2003 Robert Poyser
  • 2008 Tom Wilkinson
  • 2009 Oliver Waterer
  • 2013 Laurence Lyndon-Jones
  • 2019 Hilary Punnett
  • 2023 Samuel Bristow

Chester Cathedral

Important organists of Chester Cathedral include the composers Robert White and John Sanders. Also, the recording artist Roger Fisher.

Organists

  • 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

Assistant Organists

  • 1857 Mr. Munns
  • 1872–1876 Herbert Stephen Irons
  • 1876–1877 Joseph Cox Bridge (then became the main organist)
  •  ????–1890 John Gumi
  • 1893–1925 John Thomas Hughes (then became the main organist)
  • 1925–1926 Guillaume Ormond
  • 1934–1944 James Roland Middleton
  • 1944–1947 George Guest
  • 1955–1960 Brian Runnett
  • 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 became the main organist)
  • 2008–2011 Ian Roberts
  • 2011–2016 Benjamin Chewter
  • 2016–2020 Andrew Wyatt
  • 2020 – present Alexander Lanigan-Palotai
  • 2023 – present Daniel Mathieson

Chichester Cathedral

Important organists at Chichester Cathedral include composer Thomas Weelkes and conductors John Birch and Nicholas Cleobury.

Before 1801, there were two separate jobs: 'Organist' and 'Master of the Choristers'. These jobs were combined when James Target was appointed. Since the mid-1800s, there has also been an Assistant Organist. Today, the 'Organist and Master of the Choristers' leads the choir and cathedral services. The 'Assistant Organist' plays for the choir.

The cathedral was attacked in December 1642. All church services stopped. They did not start again until the king returned in 1661. The choir started again that year, but a new organist was not appointed until 1668.

Organists and Masters of the Choristers

Organist (1545–1801)

  • 1545 William Campion
  • 1550 Thomas Coring
  • 1560 Edward Piper
  • 1561 Thomas Coring
  • 1565 Michael Woods
  • 1571 Clement Woodcock
  • 1589 ?
  • 1599 Jacob Hillarye
  • 1602 Thomas Weelkes
  • 1623 William Eames
  • 1636 Thomas Lewis
  • 1642 None
  • 1668 Bartholomew Webb
  • 1673 Thomas Lewis
  • 1675 John Reading
  • 1677 Samuel Peirson
  • 1720 Thomas Kelway
  • 1744 Thomas Capell
  • 1776 William Walond Jr.

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)

  • 1801 James Target
  • 1803 Thomas Bennett
  • 1848 Henry R. Bennett
  • 1861 Philip Armes
  • 1863 Edward Thorne
  • 1870 Francis Edward Gladstone
  • 1873 James Pyne
  • 1874 Charles Henry Hylton Stewart
  • 1875 Daniel Wood
  • 1876 Theodore Aylward
  • 1887 Frederick Read
  • 1902 Frederick Crowe
  • 1921 Frederick Read
  • 1925 Marmaduke Conway
  • 1931 Harvey Grace
  • 1938 Horace Hawkins
  • 1958 John Birch
  • 1980 Alan Thurlow
  • 2008 Sarah Baldock
  • 2014 Charles Harrison

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

Coventry Cathedral

This list only includes people who have worked at the new Coventry Cathedral.

Directors of Music

  • 1961 David Foster Lepine
  • 1972 Robert Weddle
  • 1977 Ian Little
  • 1984 Paul Leddington Wright
  • 1995 David Poulter (later Organist of Chester Cathedral)
  • 1997 Rupert Jeffcoat
  • 2005 Alistair Reid (Acting Director of Music)
  • 2006 Kerry Beaumont
  • 2020– Rachel Mahon

Assistant Organists

  • 1960 Martyn Lane
  • 1962 Michael Burnett
  • 1964 Robert George Weddle (then became the main Organist)
  • 1972 J Richard Lowry
  • 1976 Ian Little (then became the main Organist)
  • 1977 Paul Leddington Wright (then became the main Organist)
  • 1984 Timothy Hone
  • 1988 Chris Argent
  • 1990 David Poulter (then Director of Music)
  • 1995–2002 Daniel Moult
  • 2004 Alistair Reid
  • 2011–2013 Laurence Lyndon-Jones
  • 2018–2020 Rachel Mahon (then became Director of Music)

Derby Cathedral

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

Organists

  • 1921 Arthur Griffin Claypole
  • 1930 Alfred William Wilcock
  • 1933 George Handel Heath-Gracie
  • 1958 Wallace Michael Ross
  • 1983 Peter David Gould
  • 2015 Hugh Morris
  • 2019 Alexander Binns

Assistant Organists

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

Durham Cathedral

Important organists at Durham Cathedral have included the composers Thomas Ebdon and Richard Lloyd. Also, organists Philip Armes and John Dykes Bower.

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
  • 1763 Thomas Ebdon
  • 1811 Charles E. J. Clarke
  • 1813 William Henshaw
  • 1862 Philip Armes
  • 1907 Rev Arnold D. Culley
  • 1933 John Dykes Bower
  • 1936 Conrad William Eden
  • 1974 Richard Lloyd
  • 1985 James Lancelot
  • 2017 Daniel Cook

Sub-Organists

  •  ????–1850 John Matthew Wilson Young
  • Thomas Henry Collinson
  •  ????–1874 J. C. Whitehead
  • 1895–1903 Revd John Lionel Shirley Dampier Bennett
  • 1901 F. E. Leatham (temporary)
  • 1903–1918 William Ellis
  • 1918–1919 Basil S. Maine
  • 1919–1968 Cyril Beaumont Maude
  • 1968–1972 Bruce Richard Cash
  • 1973–1980 Alan Thurlow
  • 1980–1982 David Hill
  • 1982–1991 Ian Shaw
  • 1991 Ralph Woodward (Acting)
  • 1991–2011 Keith Wright
  • 2011–2019 Francesca Massey
  • 2019–present Joseph Beech

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
  • 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
  • 2019 Edmund Aldhouse

Assistant Organists

  •  ????-1857 Mr. Bailey
  •  ????-1865 William J. Kempton
  • George Legge
  • William George Price
  • 1903–1906 Frederick Chubb
  • 1906–1909 Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
  • 1911–1915 Edwin Alec Collins
  • 1927–1929 Guillaume Ormond
  • William Bean
  • 1939 C. P. R. Wilson
  • 1945–1949 Russell Missin
  • 1949–1958 Arthur Wills (later became the main organist)
  • 1958–1961 Christopher Scarf
  • 1961–1964 Michael Dudman
  • 1964–1966 Anthony Greening
  • 1968–1972 Roger Judd
  • 1973–1976 Gerald Gifford
  • 1977–1989 Stephen Le Prevost
  • 1989–1991 Jeremy Filsell
  • 1991–1996 David Price
  • 1996–1998 Sean Farrell
  • 1999–2002 Scott Farrell
  • 2002 Jonathan Lilley
  • 2013 Edmund Aldhouse
  • 2019 Glen Dempsey

Exeter Cathedral

List of the organists of Exeter Cathedral
List of the organists of Exeter Cathedral

Important organists at Exeter Cathedral include composer and hymn writer Samuel Sebastian Wesley. Also, educator Sir Ernest Bullock and conductor Sir 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 knighted)
  • 1928 Thomas Armstrong (later knighted)
  • 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
  •  ????–1880? Edward Ellis Vinnicombe
  • 1881–1889 Ernest Slater
  • Frederick Gandy Bradford
  •  ????–1898 Walter Hoyle
  • 1900–1906 Revd Arnold Duncan Culley
  • 1906–1918 F. J. Pinn
  • 1919–1927 Ernest Bullock (later became the main organist)
  • 1929–1937 William Harry Gabb
  • 1937–1940 John Norman Hind
  • 1945–1946 John Norman Hind
  • 1946– Edgar S. Landen
  • 1950–1955 Howard Stephens
  • 1956–1961 Stuart Marston Smith
  • 1961–1969 Christopher Gower
  • 1969–2010 Paul Morgan (titled 'Organist' in 1999)

Assistant Directors of Music

  • 2010 David Davies
  • 2016 Timothy Parsons
  • 2021 James Anderson-Besant

Gloucester Cathedral

List of organists in Gloucester Cathedral
List of organists at Gloucester Cathedral

Important organists of Gloucester Cathedral include Samuel Sebastian Wesley. Also, composers and conductors of the Three Choirs Festival, Sir Arthur Herbert Brewer and Herbert Sumsion.

Organists

The main organist job is now called Director of Music. Only these names are listed 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 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

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
  • 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. Underwood
  • 1907–1913 Ambrose Robert Porter
  • 1915–???? Harold C. Organ
  • ca. 1919 Charles Williams
  • 1920–1926 Reginald Tustin Baker
  • 1926-1917 William O Minay
  • 1927–1932 Arthur John Pritchard
  • 1932–1937 (Alfred) Melville Cook
  • 1938 W. Lugg
  •  ????-1945 Herbert William Byard
  • Peter Stuart Rodway
  • 1948–1954 Donald Frederick Hunt
  • 1954–1958 Wallace Michael Ross
  • 1958–1963 John Sanders
  • Richard Latham
  •  ?-1975 John Francis Clough
  • 1975–1983 Andrew Millington
  • 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

Guildford Cathedral

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

Organists

  • 1927 John Albert Sowerbutts
  • 1946 Peter Goodman
  • 1951 Ronald Walter Dussek
  • 1961 Barry Rose
  • 1974 Philip Moore
  • 1983 Andrew Millington
  • 1998 Stephen Farr
  • 2008 Katherine Dienes-Williams

Sub-Organists

  • 1927–1940 Walter William Lionel Baker
  • 1954–???? Harry Taylor
  • 1960-1961 Roger Moffatt
  • 1961-1962 Gordon Mackie
  • 1962–1965 Peter Moorse
  • 1965-1970 Gavin Williams
  • 1970–1977 Anthony Froggatt
  • 1977–1989 Peter Wright
  • 1989–2002 Geoffrey Morgan
  • 2002–2003 Louise Reid
  • 2003–2009 David Davies
  • 2009–2017 Paul Provost
  • 2017–2023 Richard Moore
  • 2023 – present Asher Oliver

Hereford Cathedral

Organists of Hereford Cathedral
List inside Hereford Cathedral

Important organists of Hereford Cathedral include the 1500s composers John Bull and John Farrant. Also, Samuel Sebastian Wesley and conductor Meredith Davies.

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)
  • 1586 Thomas Mason (acting organist)
  • 1591 John Fido (1st time)
  • 1592 John Farrant
  • 1593 John Fido (2nd time)
  • 1595 John Gibbs
  • 1596 John Fido (3rd time)
  • 1597 William Inglott
  • 1630 Hugh Davis
  • 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
  • 1805 Charles James Dare
  • 1818 Aaron Upjohn Hayter
  • 1820 John Clarke Whitfeld
  • 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
  • 1884–1889 Allan Paterson
  • 1890–1893 Ivor Atkins (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
  • 1892–1895 Edgar C. Broadhurst
  • 1898-c. 1912 Percy Hull
  • c. 1912 W. R. Carr
  • 1919–1923 Ernest Willoughby
  • 1924–1935 Reginald Harry West
  • 1935–1940 Colin Archibald Campbell Ross
  • 1940–1942 Christopher John Morris
  • 1942–1949 Colin Mann
  • 1950–1953 Ross Fink
  • 1953–1958 Michael Illman
  • 1958–1962 Michael Burton
  • 1962–1967 Roger Fisher
  • 1968–1984 Robert Green
  • 1985–1988 David Briggs
  • 1989–1994 Geraint Bowen (later became the main organist)
  • 1995–1998 Huw Williams
  • 1998–present Peter Dyke

Leicester Cathedral

List of organists of Leicester Cathedral
List of organists of Leicester Cathedral

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

Organists and Directors of Music

  • Richard Hobbs (to 1753)
  • William Boulton (to 1765)
  • Anthony Greatorex 1765 – c. 1772
  • Martha Greatorex 1772–1800
  • Sarah Valentine 1800–1843
  • Mrs Mary Lee Scott (née Hewitt) 1843-1870
  • John Morland 1870–1875
  • Charles Hancock 1875–1927
  • Gordon Archbold Slater 1927–1931
  • George Charles Gray 1931–1969
  • Peter Gilbert White 1969–1994
  • Paul Morley-April -July 1994 (Acting Master of the Choristers)
  • Jonathan Gregory 1994–2010
  • Christopher Ouvry-Johns 2011–present

Assistant Organists and Assistant Directors of Music

  • Frederick William Dickerson
  • Dennis Arnold Smith 1918
  • Stanley Vann 1932
  • Thomas Bates Wilkinson 1933
  • Wallace Michael Ross 1951
  • Sidney Thomas Rudge 1955
  • Robert Prime 1965
  • Geoffrey Malcolm Herbert Carter 1973
  • David Cowen 1995
  • Simon Headley 1999–2018
  • Rosie Vinter 2019–present

Lichfield Cathedral

Important organists of Lichfield Cathedral include the 1600s composer Michael East. Also, the musical educator Sir William Henry Harris.

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

Directors of Music

  • 2010 Ben and Cathy Lamb
  • 2016 Ben Lamb

Assistant Organists

  • 1849–1864 Thomas Bedsmore (became organist from 1864)
  • 1865–1866 James C. Culwick
  • William Grainger
  • Montague Spinney
  • Percival J. Illsley
  • 1890–1897 Clement Charlton Palmer
  •  ????-1895 Herman Brearley
  • 1902–1909 H. Rose
  • 1909–1911 Thomas Milton Sowell
  • 1911–1919 William Henry Harris
  • 1919–1924 Montague Herbert Spinney
  • 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
  • 1986–1994 Mark Shepherd
  • 1994–2002 Robert Sharpe
  • 2002–2007 Alexander Mason
  • 2007 Cathy Lamb and 2008 Martyn Rawles

Lincoln Cathedral

Important organists of Lincoln Cathedral have included the Renaissance composers William Byrd and John Reading.

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
  • 1552 William Monk
  • 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

From 2003, the job was split. Colin Walsh became Organist Laureate, and Aric Prentice was named Director of Music.

Director of Music

  • 2003 Aric Prentice

Assistant Organists

Students helped as assistant organists until 1893, when the church made it an official job.

  •  ????–1594 John Hilton
  • 1857–1858 William James Young
  •  ????–1864 W.H. Wish
  • Richard Winter
  • 1870 William Thomas Freemantle
  •  ????–1881 Edwin Charles Owston
  •  ????–1882 Ernest Wood
  • William Rose Pullein
  • 1893–1894 Frank Pullein
  • 1895–1899 Edgar Cyril Robinson
  • 1899–1904 Harry Smith Trevitt
  •  ????–1903 John Pullein
  • 19 July 1921 Frederick David Linley Penny
  • 1922–1926 William Wells Hewitt
  • 1926–1930 Edward Francis Reginald Woolley
  • 1931–1936 Willis Grant
  • 1936–???? Clifford Hewis
  • 1975–1992 Roger Bryan
  • 1992–1993 Andrew Post
  • 1993–1994 James Antony Vivian (acting)
  • 1994–1999 Jeffrey Makinson
  • 1999–2003 Simon Morley
  • Julian Thomas
  • Stephen Bullamore
  • Jamie John Hutchings
  • 2005–2007 Richard Apperley
  • 2008–2011 Benjamin Chewter
  • 2011–2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
  • 2014–2019 Hilary Punnett
  • 2019- Alana Brook

Assistant Directors of Music

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

Liverpool Cathedral

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

Directors of Music of Liverpool Cathedral

  • 1910–1916 Frederick Hampton Burstall
  • 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

Organists of Liverpool Cathedral

  • 1910–1916 Frederick Hampton Burstall
  • 1916–1955 Walter Henry Goss-Custard
  • 1955–1980 Noel Rawsthorne
  • 1980– Ian Tracey

London, St Paul's Cathedral

Many famous musicians have been organists, choir masters, and singers at St Paul's Cathedral. These include composers John Redford, Thomas Morley, and John Stainer. Well-known performers include Alfred Deller and John Shirley-Quirk.

Organists and Directors of Music

  • c.1525–1547 John Redford
  • 1547 Philip ap Rhys
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1916 Charles Macpherson
  • 1927 Sir Stanley Marchant
  • 1936 Sir John Dykes Bower
  • 1968 Christopher Dearnley
  • 1990 John Scott (Organist & Director of Music)
  • 2004 Malcolm Archer
  • 2007 Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)

Sub-Organists and Assistant Organists

  •  ????-1838 George Cooper (father)
  • 1838–1876 George Cooper (son)
  • 1876–1888 George Clement Martin (later became Organist)
  • 1888–1895 William Hodge
  • 1895–1916 Charles Macpherson (later became Organist)
  • 1916–1927 Stanley Marchant (later became Organist)
  • 1927–1946 Douglas Edward Hopkins
  • 1946–1974 Harry Gabb
  • 1974–1984 Barry Rose (Master of the Choir 1977–84)
  • 1985–1990 John Scott (later became Organist and Director of Music)
  • 1990–1998 Andrew Lucas
  • 1998–2008 Huw Williams

Organist and Assistant Director of Music

  • 2008-2021 Simon Johnson

Sub-Organists

  • 2008–2014 Timothy Wakerell
  • 2014–2017 Peter Holder
  • 2018– William Fox

Manchester Cathedral

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

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 (later Sir Frederick Bridge)
  • 1875 James Kendrick Pyne
  • 1908 Sydney Nicholson (later Sir Sydney Nicholson)
  • 1919 Archibald W. Wilson
  • 1943 Norman Cocker
  • 1954 Allan Wicks
  • 1962 Derrick Edward Cantrell
  • 1977 Robert Vincent
  • 1980–1981 Stephen Pinnock (organist)
  • 1980–1996 Stuart Beer (Master of the Choir)
  • 1981–1992 Gordon Stewart (Organist)
  • 1992–1996 Christopher Stokes (Organist)
  • 1996– Christopher Stokes (Organist and Master of the Choristers)

Assistant organists

  • 1869–1871 Joseph Cox Bridge
  • 1876 R.H. Wilson
  •  ?–1881 Minton Pyne
  • Samuel Myerscough
  • Richard Henry Mort
  • 1895–1896 Herbert C. Morris
  • Harold Mitchell Dawber
  • Frank Radcliffe
  • 1908–1912 Richard Henry Coleman
  • 1912–1919 Ernest Bullock
  • 1919 Arnold Goldsbrough
  • 1920–1922 Norman Cocker (also 1923–1943, later became the main organist)
  • 1922–1923 Thomas Armstrong
  • 1943–1946 William Oswald Minay
  • 1946– Edward Fry
  • 1950– Douglas Steele
  • 1961– John Wenlock Gittins
  • 1968–1970 Jonathan Bielby
  • 1970–1974 Brian Hodge
  • 1972–1974 John Wenlock Gittins
  • 1975–1980 Stephen Drew Pinnock
  • 1996–1999 Matthew Owens
  • 1999–2014 Jeffrey Makinson
  • 2015 Geoffrey Woollatt

Newcastle Cathedral

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

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
  • 2008 George Richford (Acting)
  • 2009 Michael Stoddart
  • 2016 Ian Roberts

Assistant organists

  • 1928–1933 Thomas Christy
  • 1936 Clifford Harker
  • 1959–1960 Michael Bryan Hesford
  • 1960–1980 Graeme East
  • 1980–1984 Keith Downie
  • 1984–2009 Michael Dutton

Assistant Director of Music

  • 2012–2015 James Norrey
  • 2015 Kris Thomsett

Norwich Cathedral

Important organists of Norwich Cathedral have included Zechariah Buck and Brian Runnett. Also, composers Thomas Morley and Heathcote Dicken Statham.

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 William Cobbold
  • 1608 William Inglott
  • 1621 Richard Gibbs
  • 1661 Richard Ayleward
  • 1664 Thomas Gibbs
  • 1666 Richard Ayleward
  • 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 (died while in office)
  • 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 (Master of Music), David Dunnett continues as organist

Assistant Organists

  • 1815–1819 Zechariah Buck (later became the main organist)
  • Thomas Wolsey White
  •  ????-1845 George Augustus Löhr
  • 1850s Alfred R. Gaul
  • 1850s Frederick Cook Atkinson
  • 1855–1877 Edward Bunnett
  • Arthur Henry Mann
  • Philip Chignell
  • A. Miller Potts
  • 1895 C. H. Duffield
  • Claude Alan Forster
  • Herbert J. Dawson
  • 1903–1905 Alfred Heath
  • 1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams
  • 1907–1908 Nelson Victor Edwards
  • 1910–1914 Wilfrid Greenhouse Allt
  • 1978–1983 Malcolm Archer
  • 1983–1990 Adrian Lucas
  • 1990–1997 Neil Taylor
  • Katherine Dienes-Williams
  • Julian Thomas
  • Ben Giddens
  • Tom Primrose

Oxford, Christ Church

The most important organist of Christ Church, Oxford is the Renaissance composer John Taverner. Other important composers and conductors include Basil Harwood, Sir William Henry Harris, and Simon Preston.

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
  • 2018 Steven Grahl

Sub-Organists

Assistant Organist (1753–1990)

  • 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
  • 1958 Michael John Smith
  • 1961 ?
  • 1972 Nicholas Cleobury
  • 197? Francis Grier
  • 1983 Catherine Ennis
  • 1984 Robin Bowman
  • 1986 Simon Lawford

Sub-Organist (1990–present)

  • 1990 Stephen Farr
  • 1996 David Goode
  • 2001 Clive Driskill-Smith
  • 2020 Benjamin Sheen

Peel Cathedral (Isle of Man)

Organists at Peel Cathedral have included the following.

Organists and Choirmasters

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

Between 1991 and 1994, this job was also combined with being the Head of Music at King Williams College.

Organists and Directors of Music

  • 2008 Donald Roworth
  • 2012 Peter Litman

Peterborough Cathedral

Important organists of Peterborough Cathedral have included Stanley Vann, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir 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 Dr Haydn Keeton
  • 1921 Dr Richard Henry Coleman
  • 1944 Charles Cooper Francis
  • 1946 Douglas Edward Hopkins
  • 1953 Dr Stanley Vann
  • 1977 Christopher Gower
  • 2004 Andrew Reid (Director of Music)
  • 2013 Robert Quinney
  • 2014 Steven Grahl
  • 2018– Tansy Castledine

Assistant Masters of the Music

  • Samuel Round
  • 1895 George Pattman
  • 1900–1902 H. M. Goodacre
  • 1902–1903 Arthur Griffin Claypole
  • 1905–1910 Charles Cooper Francis (later became Master of the Music)
  • 1911–1914 Malcolm Sargent
  • 1915–1917 Thomas Armstrong
  • 1918–1925 Eric John Fairclough
  • 1930–1931 J. Durham Holl
  • 1932–? R. Shield
  • ca. 1938 Derek John Clare
  • ca. 1938 Desmond Swinburn
  • 1950–1953 John Malcolm Tyler
  • 1954–1955 Philip Joseph Lank
  • 1956–1959 Malcolm Ernest Cousins
  • 1960 Eric Howard Fletcher
  • Richard Latham
  • 1964–1971 Barry Ferguson
  • 1971–1980 Andrew Robert Newberry
  • 1980–1986 Simon Lawford
  • 1986–1992? Gary Sieling
  • 1993–1995 Simon Bowler
  • 1994–2007 Mark Duthie
  • 1998–2002 Thomas Moore
  • 2002–2007 Oliver Waterer
  • 2007–2011 Francesca Massey
  • 2011–2020 David Humphreys
  • 2020– Christopher Strange

Plymouth Cathedral

Organists at Plymouth Cathedral have included the following.

Organists & Directors of Music

  • 1990 Neville Allen
  • 1996 Robert Osmond
  • 1998 Kevin Holmes
  • 2001 Christopher Fletcher
  • 2020 Robert Osmond (returned for a second time)

Portsmouth Cathedral

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

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
  • 2018 Sachin Gunga

Ripon Cathedral

Important 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 No one
  • 1613 John Wanlass
  • ca. 1643 No one
  • 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
  • 1799 William F. M. Ayrton
  • 1802 Nicholas T. D. Ayrton
  • 1823 John Henry Bond
  • 1829 George Bates
  • 1874 Edwin John Crow
  • 1902 Dr Charles Harry Moody, CBE
  • 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

Assistant Organists/Assistant Directors of Music

  • Edward Brown
  • 1876–1881 Henry Taylor
  •  ???? J. William-Render
  • William Rains
  • William Edward Cave
  • Edgar Alfred Lane
  •  ????-1887 Herbert Arthur Wheeldon
  • 1887–1890 Charles Morton Bailey
  • Edgar Watson
  • ca. 1908 C. Richards
  • David Lamb
  • 1925–1927 Leonard Bagguley

The assistant organist job was not official until 1928.

  • 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 Stevenson
  • 1958–1963 Laurence Gibbon
  • 1963–1974 Alan Dance
  • 1974–1986 Marcus Huxley
  • 1986–1998 Robert Marsh
  • 1998–2003 Andrew Bryden (then became the main 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)

Rochester Cathedral

Among the composers and performers who have been organists at Rochester Cathedral are Bertram Luard-Selby and Percy Whitlock.

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 Robert Ashfield
  • 1977 Barry Ferguson
  • 1994 Roger Sayer
  • 2008 Scott Farrell
  • 2018 Adrian Bawtree (Interim Director of Music)
  • 2019 Francesca Massey
  • 2022 Adrian Bawtree

Assistant Organists

  • -1841 Henry Edmund Ford
  • 1850–1856 Philip Armes
  • 1859–1865 Frederick Bridge (later Sir Frederick Bridge)
  • Alfred Alexander
  • ca.1868 Joseph Bridge
  • 1899–1901 Glanville Hopkins
  • 1902–1908 Hector E. Shallcross
  • 1919–1921 Alfred H. Allen
  • 1921–1930 Percy Whitlock
  • 1930–1977 James Alfred Levett
  • 1977–1981 David Poulter
  • 1982–1989 Paul Hale
  • 1989–1994 Roger Sayer
  • 1994–1998 William Whitehead
  • 1998–2001 Sean Farrell
  • 2001–2002 James Eaton (acting)
  • 2002–2006 Edmund Aldhouse
  • 2006–2010 Dan Soper
  • 2010–2014 Samuel Rathbone
  • 2014–2018 Claire Innes-Hopkins
  • 2018 Jeremy Lloyd

St Albans Cathedral

List of organists of St Alban's Cathedral
List of organists of St Albans Cathedral

The organist jobs at St Albans Cathedral have been held by many well-known musicians. These include Peter Hurford, Stephen Darlington, and Barry Rose. Andrew Lucas is the current Master of the Music. Since 1963, the cathedral has hosted the St Albans International Organ Festival.

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

  • 1908–1909 John Cawley
  • 1921–1930 George C. Straker
  • 1936–1939 Sydney John Barlow
  • 1945–1951 Frederick Carter
  • 1951–1970 John Henry Freeman
  • 1970–1975 Simon Lindley
  • 1972-1973 Anthony Jennings
  • 1975–1976 John Clough
  • 1976–2001 Andrew Parnell
  • 2001–2008 Simon Johnson
  • 2008–present Tom Winpenny

St Edmundsbury Cathedral

Monuments to organists of St Edmundsbury Cathedral (2)
Plaques in memory of Harrison Oxley, Wilfred Mothersole and Percy Hallam in St Edmundsbury Cathedral

This list includes organists of St James parish church before it became a Cathedral in 1914.

Organists and Directors of Music

  • 1760 Mr Nair
  • 1785 Thomas Harrington
  • 1815 John Harrington
  • 1841 Philip Harrington
  • 1863 Frederick Fearnside
  • 1877 Mr Sydenham
  • 1883 Edward Iles
  • 1892 Revd J Lord
  • 1896 Harold Shann
  • 1937 Percy Hallam
  • 1958 Harrison Oxley
  • 1985 Paul Trepte
  • 1990 Mark Blatchly
  • 1993 Mervyn Cousins
  • 1997 James Thomas
  • 2020-2021 Vacant
  • 2021 Timothy Parsons
  • 2024 Claudia Grinnell

Assistant Organists and Assistant Directors of Music

  • 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

Salisbury Cathedral

Among the important organists of Salisbury Cathedral have been composers and performers like Bertram Luard-Selby, Sir Walter Galpin Alcock, and Sir David Valentine Willcocks.

Organists

  • 1463 John Kegewyn
  • 1563 Robert Chamberlayne
  • 1568 Thomas Smythe
  • 1587 John Farrant (Senior)
  • 1592 Richard Fuller
  • 1598 John Farrant (Junior)
  • 1602–1610 John Holmes
  • 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)

Assistant Organists

  • 1845?–1863 John Elliott Richardson (then became the main organist)
  • Thomas Bentinck Richardson
  • 1881–1884 Albert Edward Wilshire
  • 1886–1889 George Street Chignell
  • 1917 Herbert Howells
  • 1917–1927 Cuthbert Edward Osmond
  • 1933–1947 Reginald Moore
  • 1947–1950 John Charles Stirling Forster
  • 1947–1954 Ronald Tickner
  • 1954–1957 Christopher Hugh Dearnley (later became the main organist)
  • 1957–1966 Richard Hey Lloyd
  • 1967–1974 Michael John Smith
  • 1974–1978 Jonathan Rees-Williams
  • 1978–1985 Colin Walsh
  • 1985–2005 David Halls (later became the main organist)
  • 2005–2011 Daniel Cook
  • 2011–2012 Vacant
  • 2012–present John Challenger (Assistant Director of Music)

Sheffield Cathedral

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

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 Lemare
  • 1892 Thomas William Hanforth
  • 1937 Reginald Tustin Baker
  • 1967 Graham Hedley Matthews
  • 1991 Paul Brough
  • 1994 Simon Lole
  • 1997 Neil Taylor
  • 2016 Joshua Hales (acting)
  • 2017 Tom Corns
  • 2019 Joshua Stephens (acting, appointed Master of Music from March 2020, resigned June 2020)
  • 2020 Ian Seddon (acting)
  • 2023 Chris Why (acting)
  • 2023 Tom Daggett

Assistant Directors of Music

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

Southwark Cathedral

Among the organists of Southwark Cathedral are Edgar Tom Cook, known for his lunchtime organ broadcasts, 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 Wright
  • 2019 Ian Keatley

Assistant Organists

  • F. Stanley Winter
  • 1908–1917 Charles Edgar Ford
  • 1917–1922 Francis W. Sutton
  • 1922 J.C. Bradshaw 1922
  • 1923–1925 Ralph William Downes
  • 1934–1935 Philip Miles
  • 1936 Ernest F.A. Suttle
  • 1937–1954 Ernest Herbert Warrell
  • 1955–1956 William Allen Humpherson
  • 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

Southwell Minster

At Southwell Minster, the main organist is called "Rector Chori." This old title means "Ruler of the Choir."

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? 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 Simon Hogan (acting)
  • 2017 Paul Provost

Organists

Assistant Organists:

  •  ????-1861 W.D. Hall
  • W.L. Dodd 1861–1865
  • ca. 1868 E.D. Hoe
  • ca. 1870 H. Nicholson
  •  ????-1885 G. Fletcher
  • 1890–1897 Alfred Winterbotham
  • 1897–1902 Lawrence Frederick Baguley
  • 1903–1904 Sydney Weale
  • Oswald Steele
  • Cecil Wyer ???? – 1919
  • 1958–1994 Peter Wood
  • 1994–2002 Philip Rushforth (now Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
  • 2002–08 Simon Bell

In 2008, the title "Assistant Organist" changed to "Assistant Director of Music." Assistant Directors of Music:

  • 2008–2012 Philip White-Jones
  • 2012–2019 Simon Hogan
  • 2019–present Jonathan Allsopp

Truro Cathedral

The Diocese of Truro started in 1876. Truro Cathedral was built in 1887. Before that, the parish church of St Mary the Virgin was on the same spot and had an organ. Its organists included Charles William Hempel.

Organists and Masters of the Choristers

  • 1881 George Robertson Sinclair (later organist of Hereford Cathedral)
  • 1890 Mark James Monk
  • 1920 Hubert Stanley Middleton
  • 1926 John Dykes Bower (later Sir John Dykes Bower)
  • 1929 Guillaume Ormond
  • 1971 John Charles Winter
  • 1989 David Briggs
  • 1994 Andrew Nethsingha
  • 2002 Robert Sharpe
  • 2008 Christopher Gray
  • 2023 James Anderson-Besant

Assistant Organists

  • 1885–1886 Ivor Atkins (later knighted)
  • 1902–1907 Frederick Rowland Tims
  • 1907–1911 William Stanley Sutton
  • 1911 Mr. Hall
  • Donald Behenna
  • 1922–1926 Gerald Hocken Knight
  • Arthur William Baines
  • 1950–1971 John Charles Winter (later became the main organist)
  • 1971–1991 Henry Doughty
  • 1991–2000 Simon Morley
  • 2000–2008 Christopher Gray
  • 2008–2017 Luke Bond
  • 2017–2019 Joseph Wicks
  • 2019–2020 Michael Butterfield
  • 2020–present Andrew Wyatt

Wakefield Cathedral

Organists of Wakefield Cathedral have included the following.

Organists

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

Assistant Organists

  • 1896–1900 William Frederick Dunnill
  • 1961–1971 John Holt
  • 1975–1983 Peter David Gould
  • 1983–1985 Gareth Green
  • 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- James Bowstead

Wells Cathedral

The first record of an organ at Wells Cathedral is from 1310. A smaller organ was added in 1415. In 1620, a new organ was built by Thomas Dallam. This organ was destroyed by soldiers in 1643. Another new organ was built in 1662. It was made bigger in 1786 and rebuilt again in 1855 by 'Father' Henry Willis. In 1909–1910, a new organ was built by Harrison & Harrison. They kept the best parts of the old organ. This organ has been cared for by the same company ever since.

Organists

  • 1416–1418 Walter Bagele (or Vageler)
  • 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
  • 2020–2022 Jeremy Cole (acting Organist and Master of the Choristers since 2017)
  • 2023-present Alexander Hamilton (Acting Director of Music)

Assistant Organists

  • 1842–1859 Charles William Lavington
  • J. Summers
  • c. 1880 Frederick Joseph William Crowe
  • 1894–1895 Charles Harry Moody
  • 1896–1897 Frederick William Heck
  • W. J. Bown
  • 1904–1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams
  • 1906 Kenneth J Miller
  • 1908 Edward Percival Oxley
  • 1908 F.P. Wheeldon
  • Frank W. Porkess
  • 1920–1925 Marmaduke Conway
  • 1926–1927 C.H. Trevor
  • 1927–1933 Conrad William Eden (then became the main organist)
  • 1938 J.W. Martindale-Sidwell
  • 1946–1953 Michael Peterson
  • 1961–1970 Anthony Crossland (later became the main organist)
  • 1977–1983 David Anthony Cooper
  • 1983–1990 Christopher Brayne
  • David Ponsford
  • 1990–1994 Andrew Nethsingha
  • 1994–2005 Rupert Gough
  • 2002–2007 David Bednall
  • 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)

Winchester Cathedral

The first known organist of Winchester Cathedral was John Dyer in 1402. Later organists include Christopher Gibbons, who helped church music start again after a difficult time. Also, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, who helped get the cathedral organ. Other important organists include Martin Neary, who arranged music for Princess Diana's funeral, and choir director David Hill.

Organists

Organists used to be called "Organist and Master of the Choristers." Then, for a short time, "Organist and Master of the Music." Now, they are called "Organist and Director of Music."

  • 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
  • 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

Sometimes the job was called "Sub-organist" or, more recently, "Assistant Director of Music."

  • 1787–1802 George William Chard (later became the main Organist)
  • 1851–1854 George Mursell Garrett
  • 1863–?? Thomas Somerford
  •  ????-1869 E.H. Birch
  • 1876 Charles Lee Williams
  • William Prendergast (later became the main Organist)
  • 1898–?? Alfred Ernest Floyd
  • E. Gilbert
  • 1902–1904 Louis H. Torr
  • 1906 George C. Macklin
  • 1906–1913 Howard Roscoe Eady
  • 1908–?? James Frederick Parsons
  • Henry William Radford
  • 1912–1921 Henry William Stubbington
  • 1919 Hilda Bird
  • Horace Hawkins
  • W. Brennand Smith
  • Cyril John Tucker Fogwell
  • Gillian Skottowe (now Gillian Earl)
  • 1958–1967 Graham Hedley Matthews
  • 1967–?? Clement McWilliam
  • 1975–1985 James Lancelot
  • 1985–1991 Timothy Byram-Wigfield
  • 1991–1996 David Dunnett
  • 1996–1998 Stephen Farr
  • 1999–2002 Philip Scriven
  • 2002–2008 Sarah Baldock
  • 2003–2008 Philip White-Jones
  • 2008 Richard McVeigh (Assistant Organist)
  • 2008–2012 Simon Bell (Assistant Director of Music)
  • 2012–2021 George Castle (Assistant Director of Music)
  • 2017 Richard Moore (Assistant Organist)
  • 2017- Claudia Grinnell (Assistant Organist 2017-2021) (Sub Organist 2021- )
  • 2022- Joshua Stephens (Sub Organist)

Worcester Cathedral

Organists of Worcester Cathedral have included Sir Ivor Atkins, Douglas Guest, and Christopher Robinson. Also, composers Thomas Tomkins and William Hayes.

Organists (and Directors of Music from 2012)

  • 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 E. J. Clarke
  • 1844 William Done
  • 1895 Hugh Blair
  • 1897 Sir Ivor Atkins
  • 1950 David Willcocks (later knighted)
  • 1957 Douglas Guest
  • 1963 Christopher Robinson
  • 1974 Donald Hunt
  • 1996 Adrian Lucas
  • 2012 Christopher Allsop (Acting Director of Music)
  • 2012–2018 Peter Nardone
  • 2019 Samuel Hudson

Assistant Organists (and Assistant Directors of Music from 2012)

  • 1835–1844 William Done (later became the main organist)
  • 1846–1847 John Roberts Boulcott
  • c. 1860 Alfred James Caldicott
  • 1865 Robert Taylor
  •  ????-1876 William Edward Wadeley
  • 1879 Mr. Garton
  • James Henry Caseley
  • Henry Holloway
  • 1887–1895 Hugh Blair (later became the main organist)
  • 1893–1899 Frank Alfred Charles Mason
  • 1893–1896 George Street Chignell
  • 1904–1909 Edgar Thomas Cook
  •  ????-1912 Alexander E. Brent Smith
  • 1912–1962 Edgar F.Day
  • 1962–1963 Christopher Robinson (later became the main organist)
  • 1963–1976 Harry Bramma
  • 1976–1981 Paul Trepte
  • 1981–1991 Adrian Partington
  • 1991–1998 Raymond Johnston
  • 1998–2004 Daniel Phillips
  • 2004–2018 Christopher Allsop
  • 2018– Nicholas Freestone

York Minster

The Organists of York Minster
List of the organists of York Minster

Among the important organists of York Minster are four members of the Camidge family, who were organists for over 100 years. Also, composers like James Nares and Francis Jackson.

Organists

The organists of York Minster have had different titles, like "Master of the Music." This job is similar to an Organist and Master of the Choristers. They also have an Assistant Organist. The names before 1633 are from a list on the wall of the North Transept.

  • 1475 John Austan
  • 1484 John Symson
  • 1510 John Usher
  • 1527 Robert Holmes
  • 1531 Thomas Kirkby
  • 1541 John Thorne
  • 1573 Henry Thorne
  • 1598 Cuthbert Byas
  • 1605 Henry Farrande
  • 1607 William Browne
  • 1616 Thomas Kingston
  • 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 Thomas Tertius Noble
  • 1913 Sir Edward Bairstow
  • 1946 Francis Jackson
  • 1983 Philip Moore
  • 2008 Robert Sharpe

Assistant Organists

  • 1842–1848 Thomas Simpson Camidge
  •  ????-1878 Edward Johnson Bellerby
  •  ????-1879 Mark James Monk
  • 1891–1892 Thomas William Hanforth
  • 1892 Charles Legh Naylor
  •  ????-1902 Frederick Flaxington Harker
  • 1902–1906 Edwin Fairbourn
  • 1906–1910 William Green
  • 1910–1914 Cyril Francis Musgrove
  • 1917–1923 Harold Aubie Bennett
  • 1924–1929 J. Lawrence Slater
  • 1929–1941, 1946 Owen Le Patourel Franklin
  • 1946 Francis Jackson (later became the main Organist)
  • 1947–1954 Allan Wicks
  • 1954–1957 Eric Parsons
  • 1957–1966 Ronald Edward Perrin
  • 1966–1967 Peter J. Williams
  • 1969–1971 A. Wilson Dixon
  • 1971–1975 Geoffrey Coffin
  • 1976–2002 John Scott Whiteley (Organist, 2001–2010)
  • 2010–2016 David Pipe
  • 2016 Benjamin Morris

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