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Previous organists

Much of this information is taken from The Succession of Organists by Watkins Shaw (OUP, 1991)

 

Middle Ages
1307–18 Giles, clerk, tailor, custos organorum

Tudor
1517–21 William Wode
1527–38 Richard Palmer
1534–38 John Slade duties delegated by

               Richard Palmer
1538–83 John Hodges
1582–86 John Bull, at first jointly with John Hodges

1586–89 Thomas Warrock
1591–92 John Fido
1592–93 John Farrant
1593–95 John Fido
1595–96 John Gibbs
1596–97 John Fido
1597–1609 (or later) William Inglot

Stuart
1630–44 Hugh Davies before
1660–88 John Badham
1688–1707 Henry Hall (I)
1707–14 Henry Hall (II)

        


     
Georgian
1714–18 Edward Thompson
1720–54 Henry Swarbrick
1754–79 Richard Clack
1779–89 William Perry
1789–1805 Miles Coyle
1805–18 Charles James Dare
1818–20 Aaron Upjohn Hayter
1820–32 John Clarke-Whitfeld
1832–35 Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1835–42 John Hunt

Victorian
1843–77 George Townshend
Smith
1877–89 Langdon Colborne
1889–1917 George Robertson Sinclair

Twentieth Century
1918–49 Sir Percy Clarke Hull
1950–56 Albert Meredith Davies CBE
1956–66 Alfred Melville Cook
1966–74 Richard Hey Lloyd
1974–2001 Roy Cyril Massey MBE