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Arthur Harry Cross

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Cross was also the honorary conductor of the King's Lynn Musical Society, the Hunstanton Amateur Operatic Society and the Hunstanton Choral Society. He also worked with the Heacham Choral Societies and the King's Lynn Music Society. He was conductor at the Hunstanton Amateur Dramatic Society's
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and Queen Alexandra were represented at the funeral by Mr. & Mrs. Frank Beck, the King's agent at Sandringham, and in addition to telegraphing messages of sympathy to the family the King and Queen ordered some floral tokens to be placed on the coffin.
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book called "The Sandringham Chant Book" was published. This was produced by Cross and the Rector of Sandringham, Rev. F. A. J. Harvey, and was designed to be used by village choirs where the
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Cross was buried in the churchyard of Sandringham Church, where friends and a number of people known in the musical circles of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire came to pay their respects.
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was a chorister, organist, choirmaster and composer of sacred and secular music, who was appointed organist and choirmaster at
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He sang, played the piano, acted and/or composed the music at many local events, some of which were in aid of charity.
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in 1878 at the age of 20. He continued in that position for 28 years until his death of heart disease in 1906.
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system was taught. A number of composers contributed to the chants, including Cross.
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On his death, at the age of 48, Cross's wife received a message of condolence from
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for the Kings Lynn Musical Society, in 1903, and sang the tenor part in
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in 1904. He conducted and sang the tenor parts in a performance of
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Gravestone of Arthur H Cross, Organist at Sandringham 1878-1906
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Arthur Cross, whose father was a cook, was a choirboy at
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Index

St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham


Jesus College, Cambridge
Royal College of Organists

St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham
Dersingham
Patience
Gilbert and Sullivan
Henry Arthur Jones
Iolanthe
Messiah
Anglican Chant
Tonic sol-fa
Dorothy Maud
Howard Talbot
Queen Alexandra
King Edward VII


"Snettisham - An Original Operetta"
"New Songs"




"The New Chant Book"

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