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The following list contains information about organists at Church of England cathedrals in England.
The cathedrals of England have a long history of liturgical music, often played on or accompanied by the organ. The role of the cathedral organist is a salaried appointment, the organist often also serving as choirmaster. There is often also an assistant organist and an organ scholar.
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 Clark (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 (later organist of Hereford Cathedral)
- 1974 David Bruce-Payne
- 1978 Hubert Best
- 1986 Marcus Huxley
- 2018 David Hardie (Head of Music)
Assistant Organists
- 1907β1914 T. Appleby Matthews
- 1950β1951 Harrison Oxley, (later Organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral)
- 1954β1956 John K. Nicholas
- Malcolm Hicks
- 1966β1968 Roland L. Keen, (later Director of Music at Wroxall Abbey School)
- 1968β1974 John Pryer
- Hubert Best (later organist)
- 1978β1979 Gary Cole
- Timothy Storey
- 1986β1995 Rosemary Field
- 1995β1997 Rupert Jeffcoat, (later Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral and St John's Cathedral, Brisbane)
- 1997β2004 Christopher Allsop, (later Assistant Organist at Worcester Cathedral and Organist at Eton College)
- 2004β2010 Stuart Nicholson, (later Organist and Master of Choristers at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)
- 2010β2014 Tim Harper
- 2014β2018 David Hardie (later Head of Music β Birmingham Cathedral)
- 2019β Ashley Wagner (Assistant Head of Music)
Blackburn Cathedral
Notable organists at Blackburn Cathedral have included Charles Hylton Stewart, John Bertalot and Gordon Stewart.
Directors of Music
- 1828β1831 Joseph John Harris (later organist of Manchester Cathedral)
- 1832 R. Nimmo (temporary)
- 1832β1838 Henry Smart
- 1838β1840 John Bishop (formerly organist of St. Paul's Church, Cheltenham)
- 1840β1848 William Robinson
- 1848β1858 Joseph Rolley (from Church of St George, Bolton)
- 1858β1863 Charles Greenwood
- 1863β1870 James H. Robinson
- 1870β1882 Thomas S. Hayward (previously organist of St Peter's Collegiate Church Wolverhampton, afterwards organist of Wesleyan Chapel, Mornington Road, Southport)
- 1882β1888 Walter Handel Thorley
- 1888β1900 James H. Rooks
- 1900β1912 Christie Green (afterwards organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
- 1912β1914 Richard Henry Coleman
- 1914β1916 Charles Hylton Stewart (afterwards organist of Rochester Cathedral and St George's Chapel, Windsor)
- 1916β1939 Herman Brearley
- 1939β1964 Thomas Lucas Duerden
- 1964β1983 John Bertalot
- 1983β1994 David Anthony Cooper
- 1994β1998 Gordon Stewart
- 1998β2011 Richard Tanner (from All Saints' Church, Northampton)
- 2011β2019 Samuel Hudson
- 2019β John Robinson
Organist in Residence
- 2022- John Hosking (formerly Director of Music, Holy Trinity, Southport)
Assistant Directors of Music
- Justin Waters
- James Thomas
- Benjamin Saunders
- Robert Costin
- David Goodenough
- Tim Cooke
- 2000β2006 Greg Morris
- 2006β2012 James Davy
- 2012β2021 Shaun Turnbull
Bradford Cathedral
Organists at Bradford Cathedral have included the following.
Organist and Master of the Choristers
- c1861β1893 Absalom Rawnsley Swaine
- 1893β1939 Henry Coates
- 1939β1963 Charles Hooper
- 1963β1981 Keith Vernon Rhodes
- 1982β1986 Geoffrey John Weaver
- 1986β2002 Alan Graham Horsey
- 2003β2011 Andrew Teague
Organist & Director of Music
- 2012β2016 Alexander Woodrow
- 2017β 2023 Alexander Berry
- 2023 - Graham Thorpe (Interim Organist and Director of Music)
Cathedral Organist
- 2011β2014 Paul Bowen
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
Associate Organist
- 2018β2019 Ed Jones
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
- 1856β1860 John Barrett
- 1862β1876 George Riseley
- Albert Edward New
- 1888β1892 J.H. Fulford
- 1902 Arthur S. Warrell
- 1920β1941 Geoffrey Leonard Mendham
- 1956-1959 Lionel Pike
- Stephen Taylor
- John Jenkin
- 1980β1986 Martin Schellenberg (later Director of Music of Christchurch Priory)
- 1986β1989 Tony Pinel
- 1989β1991 Claire Hobbs
- 1991β1994 Ian Ball
- 1994β2001 David Hobourn
- 2001β Paul Walton
Canterbury Cathedral
Organists and Assistant Organists at Canterbury Cathedral have included composers Clement Charlton Palmer, Gerald Hocken Knight and Philip Moore and musical directors Sidney Campbell, Allan Wicks and Stephen Darlington.
Organists
- 1407 John Mounds
- 1420 William Stanys
- 1445 John Cranbroke
- 1499 Thomas Seawall
- 1534 John Wodynsborowe
- 1547 William Shelbye (aka 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
Second Assistant Organists
- 2015 Adrian Bawtree
- 2020 Jamie Rogers (acting)
- 2022 Adrian Bawtree
- 2022 Robin Walker
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 (acting)
- 1904 Sydney Nicholson (acting)(later Sir Sydney Nicholson organist of Westminster Abbey and founder of the Royal School of Church Music)
- 1910 Frederick William Wadely
- 1960 Robert Andrew Seivewright
- 1991 Jeremy Suter
- 2017 Mark Duthie
Assistant Organists
- 1900β1902 Stanley G. P. Stubbs (later Acting Organist)
- 1915β1919 Charles Frederick Eastwood
- 1932β1934 G. F. Stuart
- 1940β1945 Keith Burton-Nickson
- William L. Snowdon
- Ifor James
- 1970β1973 Christopher Rathbone
- 1974β1985 Hugh Davies
- 1985β1987 Andrew Shaw
- 1987β1989 Andrew Sackett
- 1989β1995 Ian Hare
- 1995β1999 Charles Harrison (later organist of Chichester Cathedral)
- 2000β2005 David Gibbs
- 2005β2008 John Robinson (Organist and Choir Director)
- 2008βpresent Edward Taylor (formerly Assistant Organist to Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir)
Chelmsford Cathedral
Notable organists at Chelmsford Cathedral have included Stanley Vann and Philip Ledger.
Masters of the Music
- 182? Charles Ambrose
- 1876 Frederick Frye
- 1945 Roland Middleton (later Organist of Chester Cathedral)
- 1949 Stanley Vann (later Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral)
- 1953 Derrick Edward Cantrell (later Organist of Manchester Cathedral)
- 1962 Philip Ledger (later Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge)
- 1965 John Willam Jordan
- 1981 Graham Elliott
- 1999 Peter Nardone (later Organist and Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral)
- 2012 James Davy
- 2023 Thomas Corns (Interim Director of Music)
Assistant Organists
- Geoffrey Becket
- 1963 John Jordan
- 1966 Peter Cross
- 1968 David Sparrow
- 1986 Timothy Allen
- 1991 Neil Weston
Assistant Directors of Music
- 1999 Edward Wellman
- 2003 Robert Poyser (later Director of Music at Beverley Minster)
- 2008 Tom Wilkinson (later Organist at the University of St Andrews, Scotland)
- 2009 Oliver Waterer (later Organist at St. Davids Cathedral and Selby Abbey)
- 2013 Laurence Lyndon-Jones
- 2019 Hilary Punnett
- 2023 Samuel Bristow
Chester Cathedral
Notable organists of Chester Cathedral include the composers Robert White and John Sanders and 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
- 1872β1876 Herbert Stephen Irons
- 1876β1877 Joseph Cox Bridge (then organist)
- ????β1890 John Gumi
- 1893β1925 John Thomas Hughes (then organist)
- 1925β1926 Guillaume Ormond (later organist of Truro Cathedral)
- 1934β1944 James Roland Middleton (later organist of Chelmsford Cathedral)
- 1944β1947 George Guest (later organist of St John's College, Cambridge)
- 1955β1960 Brian Runnett (later organist of Norwich Cathedral)
- 1960β1962 Peter Gilbert White
- 1962β1967 Harold Hullah
- 1967β1971 John Belcher
- 1971β1974 John Cooper Green
- 1974-1976 Gwyn Hodgson
- 1976β1978 John Keys
- 1978β1980 Simon Russell
- 1980β1984 Martin Singleton
- 1984β1986 David Holroyd
- 1986β1989 Lee Ward
- 1989β1998 Graham Eccles
- 1998β2002 Benjamin Saunders
- 2003β2008 Philip Rushforth (later organist)
- 2008β2011 Ian Roberts
- 2011β2016 Benjamin Chewter
- 2016β2020 Andrew Wyatt
- 2020 β present Alexander Lanigan-Palotai
- 2023 β present Daniel Mathieson
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 (1545β1801)
- 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 β 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 β 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 OβConnor
- 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
Precentors
- 1899β1918 John Henry Mee
Coventry Cathedral
This list details only those who have held positions in the new Coventry 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
- 2020β Rachel Mahon
Assistant Organists
- 1960 Martyn Lane
- 1962 Michael Burnett
- 1964 Robert George Weddle (then Organist)
- 1972 J Richard Lowry
- 1976 Ian Little (then Organist)
- 1977 Paul Leddington Wright (then Organist)
- 1984 Timothy Hone
- 1988 Chris Argent (then Shrewsbury School)
- 1990 David Poulter (then Director of Music; later Director of Music at Liverpool Cathedral)
- 1995β2002 Daniel Moult
- 2004 Alistair Reid
- 2011β2013 Laurence Lyndon-Jones (to Chelmsford Cathedral)
- 2018β2020 Rachel Mahon (then Director of Music)
Derby Cathedral
Notable 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
Notable organists at Durham Cathedral have included the composers Thomas Ebdon and Richard Lloyd, organists Philip Armes, John Dykes Bower who went on to St Paul's Cathedral, London, Conrad William Eden and James Lancelot, 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
- 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
- ????β1850 John Matthew Wilson Young, (later organist of Lincoln Cathedral)
- Thomas Henry Collinson
- ????β1874 J. C. Whitehead
- 1895β1903 Revd John Lionel Shirley Dampier Bennett
- 1901 F. E. Leatham, 1 (temporary during absence of J. L. Bennett)
- 1903β1918 William Ellis, (later organist of Newcastle Cathedral)
- 1918β1919 Basil S. Maine
- 1919β1968 Cyril Beaumont Maude
- 1968β1972 Bruce Richard Cash
- 1973β1980 Alan Thurlow (later Organist Chichester Cathedral)
- 1980β1982 David Hill (later successively Organist and Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, St John's College, Cambridge and Director of the Bach Choir)
- 1982β1991 Ian Shaw
- 1991 Ralph Woodward (Acting)
- 1991β2011 Keith Wright
- 2011β2019 Francesca Massey
- 2019βpresent Joseph Beech
Assistant Organists
- 2009β2011 Oliver Brett
- 2011β2015 David Ratnanayagam
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)
- 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 (afterwards organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
- ????-1865 William J. Kempton
- George Legge
- William George Price (later organist to the City of Melbourne)
- 1903β1906 Frederick Chubb
- 1906β1909 Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
- 1911β1915 Edwin Alec Collins
- 1927β1929 Guillaume Ormond(afterwards organist of Truro Cathedral)
- William Bean
- 1939 C. P. R. Wilson
- 1945β1949 Russell Missin
- 1949β1958 Arthur Wills (later organist)
- 1958β1961 Christopher Scarf
- 1961β1964 Michael Dudman
- 1964β1966 Anthony Greening
- 1968β1972 Roger Judd (afterwards Master of the Music at St Michael's College, Tenbury)
- 1973β1976 Gerald Gifford
- 1977β1989 Stephen Le Prevost
- 1989β1991 Jeremy Filsell
- 1991β1996 David Price (now organist at Portsmouth Cathedral)
- 1996β1998 Sean Farrell
- 1999β2002 Scott Farrell
- 2002 Jonathan Lilley (now Director of Music at Waltham Abbey)
- 2013 Edmund Aldhouse
- 2019 Glen Dempsey
- 2024 Jeremy Lloyd
Directors of the Girl Choristers
- 2006β2008 Louise Reid
- 2008 Sarah MacDonald
- 2009β2010 Louise Reid
- 2010βpresent Sarah MacDonald
- 2006β2008 Edward Taylor (now Assistant Organist at Carlisle Cathedral)
- 2008β2012 Oliver Hancock (now Director of Music at St Mary's Warwick)
- 2012β2014 Alexander Berry (then Director of Music at Bradford Cathedral now Director of Music at Great St Mary's, Cambridge)
- 2015β2017 Alexander Goodwin (now at St John's School Leatherhead as Head of Music Performance & Choral Music)
- 2017β2021 Aaron Shilson (now Assistant Director of Music at Llandaff Cathedral)
- 2021β2023 Jack Wilson (Graduate Organ Scholar, now Organist and Master of Music at Belfast Cathedral)
- 2023βpresent Stanley Godfrey
Exeter Cathedral
Notable organists at Exeter Cathedral include composer and hymn writer Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 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, and Organist of Westminster Abbey)
- 1928 Thomas Armstrong (later knighted, and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music)
- 1933 Alfred William Wilcock
- 1953 Reginald Moore
- 1957 Lionel Frederick Dakers (later Director of the Royal School of Church Music)
- 1973 Lucian Nethsingha
- 1999 Andrew Millington
- 2016 Timothy Noon
Assistant Organists (Organist from 1999)
- 1856 H. G. Halfyard
- 1861β1870 W. Pinney
- 1861?β1868 Graham Clarke (later organist of St Andrew's, Plymouth)
- ????β1880? Edward Ellis Vinnicombe
- 1881β1889 Ernest Slater
- Frederick Gandy Bradford
- ????β1898 Walter Hoyle (later organist of Coventry Cathedral)
- 1900β1906 Revd Arnold Duncan Culley
- 1906β1918 F. J. Pinn
- 1919β1927 Ernest Bullock (later organist here, subsequently knighted and Organist of Westminster Abbey)
- 1929β1937 William Harry Gabb (later Organist of H.M. Chapels Royal & Sub Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London)
- 1937β1940 John Norman Hind
- 1945β1946 John Norman Hind
- 1946β Edgar S. Landen
- 1950β1955 Howard Stephens
- 1956β1961 Stuart Marston Smith
- 1961β1969 Christopher Gower (later Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral)
- 1969β2010 Paul Morgan (titled 'Organist' in 1999)
Assistant Directors of Music
- 2010 David Davies
- 2016 Timothy Parsons
- 2021 James Anderson-Besant
Assistant Organists
- 1994β2016 Stephen Tanner (Assistant Organist)
Gloucester Cathedral
Notable among the organists of Gloucester Cathedral are Samuel Sebastian Wesley (his final cathedral appointment) and 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 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
- 1701β1710 William Hine (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
- Walter Brooks
- 1862β1865 John Alexander Matthews
- ????-1873 Henry John Vaughan
- 1879β1880 George Robertson Sinclair (later organist at Truro Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral)
- 1880β1882 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 (afterwards organist at Stroud parish church)
- 1907β1913 Ambrose Robert Porter (later organist of Lichfield Cathedral)
- 1915β???? Harold C. Organ
- ca. 1919 Charles Williams
- 1920β1926 Reginald Tustin Baker (later organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
- 1926-1917 William O Minay (later organist of Wigan Parish Church)
- 1927β1932 Arthur John Pritchard
- 1932β1937 (Alfred) Melville Cook (later organist of Hereford Cathedral)
- 1938 W. Lugg
- ????-1945 Herbert William Byard
- Peter Stuart Rodway
- 1948β1954 Donald Frederick Hunt (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
- 1954β1958 Wallace Michael Ross (later organist of Derby Cathedral)
- 1958β1963 John Sanders
- Richard Latham
- ?-1975 John Francis Clough (later assistant organist of St Albans Cathedral)
- 1975β1983 Andrew Millington (later organist of Guildford Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral)
- 1983β1990 Mark Blatchly
- 1990β1998 Mark Lee
- 1998β2002 Ian Ball
- 2002β2008 Robert Houssart
- 2008β2012 Ashley Grote (later Director of Music Norwich Cathedral)
- 2012β2013 Anthony Gowing
- 2014βpresent Jonathan Hope (previously Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral)
Guildford Cathedral
Organists at Guildford Cathedral have included choral director Barry Rose and the composer Philip Moore.
Organists
- 1927 John Albert Sowerbutts (later Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of Organists)
- 1946 Peter Goodman (later organist of Holy Trinity Church, Hull)
- 1951 Ronald Walter Dussek
- 1961 Barry Rose (later Master of the Choir St Paul's Cathedral, London and Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral)
- 1974 Philip Moore (later organist of York Minster)
- 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
- 1927β1940 Walter William Lionel Baker
- 1954β???? Harry Taylor
- 1960-1961 Roger Moffatt
- 1961-1962 Gordon Mackie
- 1962β1965 Peter Moorse
- 1965-1970 Gavin Williams
- 1970β1977 Anthony Froggatt (later Organist of Portsmouth Cathedral)
- 1977β1989 Peter Wright (later Organist of Southwark Cathedral)
- 1989β2002 Geoffrey Morgan (later Organist of Christchurch Priory)
- 2002β2003 Louise Reid (later Director of Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir)
- 2003β2009 David Davies (later Assistant Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral)
- 2009β2017 Paul Provost (later Rector Chori of Southwell Minster)
- 2017β2023 Richard Moore
- 2023 β present Asher Oliver
Hereford Cathedral
Notable organists of Hereford Cathedral include the 16th-century composers John Bull and John Farrant, briefly, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (his first cathedral appointment), 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
- 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
- 1883β1884 F. J. Livesey
- 1884β1889 Allan Paterson
- 1890β1893 Ivor Atkins (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
- 1892β1895 Edgar C. Broadhurst (later organist of St. Michael's College, Tenbury)
- 1898-c. 1912 Percy Hull (served in the First World War until 1918 when he became organist of Hereford Cathedral)
- c. 1912 W. R. Carr (probably replaced Percy Hull during the war)
- 1919β1923 Ernest Willoughby
- 1924β1935 Reginald Harry West (later organist of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh)
- 1935β1940 Colin Archibald Campbell Ross (later organist at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne and Newcastle Cathedral)
- 1940β1942 Christopher John Morris
- 1942β1949 Colin Mann
- 1950β1953 Ross Fink
- 1953β1958 Michael Illman
- 1958β1962 Michael Burton (later organist of the Church of St John the Baptist, Frome)
- 1962β1967 Roger Fisher (later organist of Chester Cathedral)
- 1968β1984 Robert Green
- 1985β1988 David Briggs (later organist of Truro Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral)
- 1989β1994 Geraint Bowen (later organist of St Davids Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral)
- 1995β1998 Huw Williams (later sub-organist at St Paul's Cathedral)
- 1998βpresent Peter Dyke
Leicester Cathedral
Notable organists at Leicester Cathedral have included Gordon Slater and Jonathan Gregory.
Organists and Directors of Music
- Richard Hobbs (to 1753) (afterwards organist St Martin in the Bull Ring)
- William Boulton (to 1765)
- Anthony Greatorex 1765 β c. 1772 (father of Thomas Greatorex, who became organist at Westminster Abbey)
- Martha Greatorex 1772β1800 (daughter of Anthony Greatorex)
- Sarah Valentine 1800β1843 (sister of Ann Valentine, who was organist at St Margaret's Church, Leicester)
- Mrs Mary Lee Scott (nΓ©e Hewitt) 1843-1870
- John Morland 1870β1875
- Charles Hancock 1875β1927
- Gordon Archbold Slater 1927β1931 (subsequently organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1931β1966)
- George Charles Gray 1931β1969 (previously organist at St Michael le Belfrey, York and St. Mary le Tower, Ipswich
- Peter Gilbert White 1969β1994 (previously Assistant Organist of Chester Cathedral 1960β1962)
- Paul Morley-April -July 1994 (Acting Master of the Choristers) Who became Director of Music (St James the Greater, Leicester) 2002-2006,now Director of Leicester Church Music Consort (LCMC) 2005 to present, formerly Organist of Leicester Church Music Consort (LCMC) 1984- 2005
- Jonathan Gregory 1994β2010 (previously organist of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, now Director of Music of the UK Japan Choir)
- Christopher Ouvry-Johns 2011βpresent (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 1953β1977)
- Thomas Bates Wilkinson 1933
- Wallace Michael Ross 1951 (subsequently assistant organist at Gloucester Cathedral 1954β1958, and organist of Derby Cathedral 1958β1982)
- Sidney Thomas Rudge 1955
- Robert Prime 1965
- Geoffrey Malcolm Herbert Carter 1973 (subsequently organist of St Mary's Church, Humberstone)
- David Cowen 1995 (now Organist of Leicester Cathedral)
- Simon Headley 1999β2018 (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)
- Rosie Vinter 2019βpresent
Lichfield Cathedral
Notable organists of Lichfield Cathedral include the 17th-century composer Michael East, and the musical educator and choral conductor Sir 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
- 2016 Ben Lamb
Assistant Organists
- 1849β1864 Thomas Bedsmore (organist from 1864)
- 1865β1866 James C. Culwick
- William Grainger
- Montague Spinney
- Percival J. Illsley
- 1890β1897 Clement Charlton Palmer (later organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
- ????-1895 Herman Brearley
- 1902β1909 H. Rose
- 1909β1911 Thomas Milton Sowell
- 1911β1919 William Henry Harris (later successively organist of New College, Oxford and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, later knighted and organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle)
- 1919β1924 Montague Herbert Spinney
- 1927β1947 Edgar Morgan
- ????-1960 Frayling
- 1950β1952 PW Read
- 1952β1955 Paul H Matthews
- 1955β1959 Donald Cox
- 1959 J W Sharwood
- 1960β1967 Robert Green
- 1968β1974 Peter Noyce
- 1975β1986 Peter King (later organist of Bath Abbey)
- 1986β1994 Mark Shepherd (later organist of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick)
- 1994β2002 Robert Sharpe (later organist of Truro Cathedral and York Minster)
- 2002β2007 Alexander Mason 7 (later organist of St Davids Cathedral)
- 2007 Cathy Lamb and 2008 Martyn Rawles
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
- 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 post was divided: Colin Walsh became Organist Laureate and Aric Prentice was appointed Director of Music.
Director of Music
- 2003 Aric Prentice
Assistant Organists
Articled pupils fulfilled the role of assistant organist until 1893 when the Chapter formalised the position of assistant organist.
- ????β1594 John Hilton
- 1857β1858 William James Young (brother of the organist) (later organist of St. Mary's Church, Horncastle, then St. Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow, Cheshire)
- ????β1864 W.H. Wish (later organist of St Andrew's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Richard Winter
- 1870 William Thomas Freemantle (later organist of St. Andrew's Church, Sharrow)
- ????β1881 Edwin Charles Owston (later organist of St. Andrew's Church, Derby)
- ????β1882 Ernest Wood
- William Rose Pullein
- 1893β1894 Frank Pullein (later organist of St Giles' Church, Wrexham)
- 1895β1899 Edgar Cyril Robinson (later organist of Gainsborough Parish Church and then Wigan Parish Church)
- 1899β1904 Harry Smith Trevitt
- ????β1903 John Pullein (later organist of St. Peter's Church, Harrogate)
- 19 July 1921 Frederick David Linley Penny
- 1922β1926 William Wells Hewitt (later organist of Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon)
- 1926β1930 Edward Francis Reginald Woolley (later organist of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent)
- 1931β1936 Willis Grant (later organist of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham)
- 1936β???? Clifford Hewis
- 1975β1992 Roger Bryan (later organist of Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newarkβon-Trent)
- 1992β1993 Andrew Post (later Director of Music, Christchurch Priory)
- 1993β1994 James Antony Vivian (acting)
- 1994β1999 Jeffrey Makinson (later assistant organist of Manchester Cathedral)
- 1999β2003 Simon Morley
- Julian Thomas
- Stephen Bullamore (later organist of Waltham Abbey)
- Jamie John Hutchings (later Director of Music at Headington School, Oxford)
- 2005β2007 Richard Apperley (later Assistant Director of Music at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington in New Zealand)
- 2008β2011 Benjamin Chewter (later Assistant Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
- 2011β2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins (later Assistant Organist of Rochester Cathedral)
- 2014β2019 Hilary Punnett
- 2019- Alana Brook
Assistant Directors of Music
- 2003β2014 Charles Harrison (later organist of Chichester Cathedral)
- 2014β2015 Sachin Gunga (acting)
- 2015β Jeffrey Makinson
Liverpool Cathedral
Notable organists at Liverpool Cathedral have included Edgar Robinson and Ian Tracey.
Directors of Music of Liverpool Cathedral
- 1910β1916 Frederick Hampton Burstall (of the Lady Chapel)
- 1924β1947 Edgar Cyril Robinson
- 1947β1982 Ronald Woan
- 1982β2007 β Ian Tracey
- 2008β2017 David Poulter
- 2017β2021 Lee Ward
- 2021-current Stephen Mannings
Organists of Liverpool Cathedral
- 1910β1916 Frederick Hampton Burstall (of the Lady Chapel)
- 1916β1955 Walter Henry Goss-Custard
- 1955β1980 Noel Rawsthorne
- 1980β Ian Tracey
The many distinguished musicians who have been organists, choir masters and choristers at St Paul's 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.1525β1547 John Redford (also Almoner)
- 1547 Philip ap Rhys (until c.1559)
- 1573 Henry Mudd
- 1587? β 1592? Thomas Morley
- 1598 Thomas Harrold
- 1619 John Tomkins
- 1638β1642 Albertus Bryne
- 1660β1668 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 MBE (Director of Music)
Sub-Organists and Assistant Organists
- ????-1838 George Cooper (father)
- 1838β1876 George Cooper (son) (also Organist HM Chapel Royal)
- 1876β1888 George Clement Martin MVO (subsequently Organist)
- 1888β1895 William Hodge
- 1895β1916 Charles Macpherson (subsequently Organist)
- 1916β1927 Stanley Marchant CVO (subsequently Organist)
- 1927β1946 Douglas Edward Hopkins (subsequently Organist Peterborough Cathedral; later Organist Canterbury Cathedral)
- 1946β1974 Harry Gabb CVO (also Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal)
- 1974β1984 Barry Rose OBE (Master of the Choir 1977β84; later Master of Music St Albans Cathedral)
- 1985β1990 John Scott LVO (subsequently Organist and Director of Music; later Director of Music St Thomas, Fifth Avenue)
- 1990β1998 Andrew Lucas (now Master of Music, St Albans Cathedral)
- 1998β2008 Huw Williams (subsequently Organist, HM Chapel Royal; now Organist Bath Abbey)
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.
Organist and Assistant Director of Music
- 2008-2021 Simon Johnson
Assistant Sub-Organists and Sub-Organists
- 1953β1956 Gerald Wheeler
- 1956β1958 Derek Holman CM
- 1958β1966 Richard Popplewell LVO (later Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal)
- 1966β1967 Timothy Farrell (later Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal)
- 1967β1978 Christopher Herrick (later Sub-Organist Westminster Abbey)
- 1978β1985 John Scott LVO (simultaneously Assistant Organist Southwark Cathedral; later Sub-Organist of St Paul's)
- 1985β1990 Andrew Lucas (subsequently Sub-Organist, later Organist of St Albans Cathedral)
- 1990β1991 Martin Baker (later Sub-Organist & Acting Organist Westminster Abbey; lately Master of Music Westminster Cathedral)
- 1992β2000 Richard Moorhouse (subsequently Organist & Master of the Choristers Llandaff Cathedral)
- 2000β2006 Mark Williams (subsequently Director of Music Jesus College, Cambridge, now Informator Choristarum, Magdalen College, Oxford)
- 2006β2008 Tom Winpenny (now Assistant Master of Music St Albans Cathedral)
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 to reflect the increased demands and prominence of the role.
Sub-Organists
- 2008β2014 Timothy Wakerell (subsequently Assistant Organist New College, Oxford)
- 2014β2017 Peter Holder (now Sub Organist Westminster Abbey)
- 2018β William Fox
Almoners and Masters of the Choristers
- 1315β1329 William of Tolleshunt
- fl. 1345 John de Hadley
- fl. 1358 John de Ware
- ????β1534 Thomas Hickman
- 1530β1540 John Redford (also Organist)
- before 1552 Thomas Mulliner
- 1559β1576 Sebastian Westcote (Vicar Choral)
- 1584β1589 Thomas Giles
- 1596 Edward Kerkham
- 1599β1612 Edward Pearce or Piers
- 1613β1624 John Gibbs
- 1626β1742 Martin Peerson
- 1661β1775 Randall Jewett
- 1686β1687 Michael Wise
- 1687β1693 John Blow
- 1693β1707 Jeremiah Clarke (also Organist)
- 1707β1748 Charles King (Vicar Choral)
- 1748β1773 William Savage (Vicar Choral)
- 1773β1793 Robert Hudson (Vicar Choral)
- 1793β1800 Richard Bellamy (Vicar Choral)
- 1800β1812 John Sale (Vicar Choral)
- 1812β1846 William Hawes (Vicar Choral)
- 1846β1853 William Hale
- 1853β1872 J. H. Coward (Minor Canon)
The title of Almoner was abolished in 1872, while the post of Master of the Choristers was held by a succession of Vicars Choral:
- 1846β1858 William Bayley
- 1858?β1867 Henry Buckland
- 1867β1874 Frederick Walker (resigned upon establishment of St Paul's Cathedral School on the present basis)
- 1874β1876 George Clement Martin (subsequently Sub-Organist & then Organist)
The training of the choristers was then entrusted to the Organist and his deputies until β
- 1977β1984 Barry Rose OBE 1977β1984 (Master of the Choir)
In 1990 the post was re-united with that of Organist under John Scott
Some notable Choristers and Vicars Choral
- 16th century
- John Redford (Vicar Choral) composer
- 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
- Maurice Bevan (Vicar Choral), composer
- 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), sometime Organist and Lay Canon 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
Notable 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 organist of Westminster Abbey)
- 1875 James Kendrick Pyne
- 1908 Sydney Nicholson (later Sir Sydney Nicholson organist of Westminster Abbey and founder of the Royal School of Church Music)
- 1919 Archibald W. Wilson
- 1943 Norman Cocker
- 1954 Allan Wicks (later organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
- 1962 Derrick Edward Cantrell
- 1977 Robert Vincent
- 1980β1981 Stephen Pinnock (organist)
- 1980β1996 Stuart Beer (Master of the Choir)
- 1981β1992 Gordon Stewart (Organist)
- 1992β1996 Christopher Stokes (Organist)
- 1996β Christopher Stokes (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Assistant organists
- 1869β1871 Joseph Cox Bridge (later organist of Chester Cathedral)
- 1876 R.H. Wilson
- ?β1881 Minton Pyne
- Samuel Myerscough
- Richard Henry Mort
- 1895β1896 Herbert C. Morris (later organist of St David's Cathedral)
- Harold Mitchell Dawber (later organist St Georgeβs Stockport)
- Frank Radcliffe (later organist of St. Wulfrum's Church, Grantham, and St. Mary's Church, Nottingham)
- 1908β1912 Richard Henry Coleman (later organist of Peterborough Cathedral)
- 1912β1919 Ernest Bullock (later organist of Exeter Cathedral and Westminster Abbey)
- 1919 Arnold Goldsbrough
- 1920β1922 Norman Cocker (also 1923β1943, afterwards organist here)
- 1922β1923 Thomas Armstrong (afterwards organist of St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London, later organist of Exeter Cathedral
- 1943β1946 William Oswald Minay
- 1946β Edward Fry
- 1950β Douglas Steele
- 1961β John Wenlock Gittins
- 1968β1970 Jonathan Bielby (afterwards organist of Wakefield Cathedral)
- 1970β1974 Brian Hodge
- 1972β1974 John Wenlock Gittins (also, Alto Lay Clerk at this time)
- 1975β1980 Stephen Drew Pinnock (afterwards Director of Music at Ardingly College)
- 1996β1999 Matthew Owens
- 1999β2014 Jeffrey Makinson
- 2015 Geoffrey Woollatt
Newcastle Cathedral
Notable 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
- 1928β1933 Thomas Christy (afterwards organist of Hexham Abbey)
- 1936 Clifford Harker (afterwards organist at Bristol Cathedral)
- 1959β1960 Michael Bryan Hesford (afterwards organist at Brecon Cathedral)
- 1960β1980 Graeme East (afterwards Organist St Chad's Gateshead then Warnham Parish Church. d.2010)
- 1980β1984 Keith Downie (Lay Clerk and sub-Assistant 1972β1980 & 1984β1988): now St Helen's Gateshead
- 1984β2009 Michael Dutton (afterwards Director of Music at Dame Allan's Schools)
Director of the Girls Choir and Sub-Organist
- 2008-2009 George Richford, Founder Director of the Girls Choir
- 2009-2010 Austin Gunn (acting), now professor in vocal studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance
- 2010β2012 David Stevens (later Organist and Master of the Choristers at Belfast Cathedral, and Sub-Assistant Organist at Wells Cathedral)
Assistant Director of Music
- 2012β2015 James Norrey (became Assistant Sub-Organist at Rochester Cathedral)
- 2015 Kris Thomsett
Organ Scholar
- 2023 James Watson
Norwich Cathedral
Notable organists of Norwich Cathedral have included Zechariah Buck and Brian Runnett, and 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 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
- 1815β1819 Zechariah Buck (afterwards organist)
- Thomas Wolsey White
- ????-1845 George Augustus LΓΆhr
- 1850s Alfred R. Gaul
- 1850s Frederick Cook Atkinson
- 1855β1877 Edward Bunnett
- Arthur Henry Mann (later organist and director of music, King's College, Cambridge)
- Philip Chignell
- A. Miller Potts
- 1895 C. H. Duffield
- Claude Alan Forster
- Herbert J. Dawson
- 1903β1905 Alfred Heath
- 1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams
- 1907β1908 Nelson Victor Edwards
- 1910β1914 Wilfrid Greenhouse Allt (later organist of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh)
- 1978β1983 Malcolm Archer (later successively organist of Bristol Cathedral, Wells Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral, London and organist and director of music at Winchester College)
- 1983β1990 Adrian Lucas (later organist of Worcester Cathedral)
- 1990β1997 Neil Taylor (later organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
- Katherine Dienes-Williams (later organist of Guildford Cathedral)
- Julian Thomas
- Ben Giddens
- Tom Primrose
Oxford, Christ Church
First among the notable organists of Christ Church, Oxford is the Renaissance composer John Taverner. Other significant composers and conductors are Basil Harwood, Sir William Henry Harris, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Sydney Watson, Francis Grier, 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
- 2018 Steven Grahl
Sub-Organists
Assistant Organist (1753β1990)
- 1753 William Walond Sr.
- 1924 Sidney Thomas Mayow Newman
- 1928 ?
- 1938 Ivor Christopher Banfield Keys
- 1940 ?
- 1943 Alec Wyton (later Organist, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, USA)
- 1946 Ivor Christopher Banfield Keys
- 1947 ?
- 1953 Harrison Oxley (later organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral)
- 1955 ?
- 1957 Anthony Crossland (later organist of Wells Cathedral)
- 1958 Michael John Smith (later organist of Llandaff Cathedral)
- 1961 ?
- 1972 Nicholas Cleobury
- 197? Francis Grier
- 1983 Catherine Ennis
- 1984 Robin Bowman
- 1986 Simon Lawford
Sub-Organist (1990βpresent)
- 1990 Stephen Farr
- 1996 David Goode
- 2001 Clive Driskill-Smith
- 2020 Benjamin Sheen
Precentors
- 1938β1945 Wilfrid Oldaker
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 the job was combined with the Head of Music position at King Williams College.
Organists and Directors of Music
- 2008 Donald Roworth
- 2012 Peter Litman
Associate Organist
- 2018βpresent Stuart Corrie
Peterborough Cathedral
Notable 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 (later Organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
- 1953 Dr Stanley Vann
- 1977 Christopher Gower
- 2004 Andrew Reid (Director of Music)
- 2013 Robert Quinney (later Organist and Director of Music New College, Oxford)
- 2014 Steven Grahl (later Organist Christ Church, Oxford 2018-2023 and Director of Music Trinity College, Cambridge 2024-
- 2018β Tansy Castledine
Tansy Castledine is to be new Director of Music - Peterborough Cathedral
Assistant Masters of the Music
- Samuel Round
- 1895 George Pattman
- 1900β1902 H. M. Goodacre
- 1902β1903 Arthur Griffin Claypole
- 1905β1910 Charles Cooper Francis (later appointed Master of the Music)
- 1911β1914 Malcolm Sargent (Articled Pupil/Assistant to Haydn Keeton, later knighted)
- 1915β1917 Thomas Armstrong (Articled Pupil/Assistant, subsequently Organist of Exeter Cathedral, later knighted, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music)
- 1918β1925 Eric John Fairclough
- 1930β1931 J. Durham Holl
- 1932β? R. Shield
- ca. 1938 Derek John Clare
- ca. 1938 Desmond Swinburn
- 1950β1953 John Malcolm Tyler (later Assistant Organist at Canterbury Cathedral)
- 1954β1955 Philip Joseph Lank (later Organist of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham)
- 1956β1959 Malcolm Ernest Cousins (later Organist of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Mansfield)
- 1960 Eric Howard Fletcher (later Professor of Music in USA)
- Richard Latham (later Assistant Organist at Gloucester Cathedral)
- 1964β1971 Barry Ferguson (later Organist of Rochester Cathedral)
- 1971β1980 Andrew Robert Newberry
- 1980β1986 Simon Lawford (later Director of Music at St George's Cathedral, Perth)
- 1986β1992? Gary Sieling (later Director of Music at St Peter's Church, Nottingham and Bromley Parish Church)
- 1993β1995 Simon Bowler
- 1994β2007 Mark Duthie (later Organist of Brecon Cathedral, subsequently Director of Music at Carlisle Cathedral)
- 1998β2002 Thomas Moore (Assistant Organist, later Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral)
- 2002β2007 Oliver Waterer (Assistant Organist, later Organist of St Davids Cathedral)
- 2007β2011 Francesca Massey (Assistant Director of Music, later Sub Organist of Durham Cathedral)
- 2011β2020 David Humphreys
- 2020β Christopher Strange
Plymouth Cathedral
Organists at Plymouth Cathedral have included the following.
Organists & Directors of Music
- 1990 Neville Allen
- 1996 Robert Osmond (formerly Director of Music at Sacred Heart and S Thérèse, Paignton)
- 1998 Kevin Holmes (formerly Director of Music at the Birmingham Oratory)
- 2001 Christopher Fletcher (formerly Director of Music at Totnes Parish Church)
- 2020 Robert Osmond (formerly Director of Music at this Cathedral β returning for a second term)
Assistant Organists
- 1996β1998 Brian Apperson (formerly Director of Music at St Augustine's, Kilburn, London NW6)
Organists
- 1995β1997 Timothy J Lewis (formerly an Anglican Priest and now a Catholic Priest & Canon Precentor of this Cathedral)
- 1950s Webster Mansfield (formerly Organist at Holy Cross Plymouth)
Portsmouth Cathedral
Notable 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
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
- 1799 William F. M. Ayrton (elder son)
- 1802 Nicholas T. D. Ayrton (younger son)
- 1823 John Henry Bond
- 1829 George Bates
- 1874 Edwin John Crow
- 1902 Dr Charles Harry Moody, CBE (formerly organist of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry)
- 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
- 1876β1881 Henry Taylor
- ???? J. William-Render
- William Rains
- William Edward Cave
- Edgar Alfred Lane
- ????-1887 Herbert Arthur Wheeldon
- 1887β1890 Charles Morton Bailey
- Edgar Watson
- ca. 1908 C. Richards
- David Lamb
- 1925β1927 Leonard Bagguley (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 was made official.
- 1928β1935 Dennis Cocks
- 1935β1939 Alfred H. Allsop
- World War Two (1939β1947)
- 1947β1952 Alex Forrest
- 1952β1955 Paul Mace
- 1955β1956 Keith Bond
- 1956β1958 Peter Anthony Stanley Stevenson
- 1958β1963 Laurence Gibbon
- 1963β1974 Alan Dance
- 1974β1986 Marcus Huxley (later organist of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham)
- 1986β1998 Robert Marsh
- 1998β2003 Andrew Bryden (then organist)
- 2003-2004 Stephen Power (Acting)
- 2004β2008 Thomas Leech
- 2009β2013 Edmund Aldhouse
- 2013β2014 Ben Horden (acting)
- 2014- Tim Harper (Assistant Director of Music)
- 2023- Alastair Stone (Assistant Organist)
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 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 (later organist and Master of the Music of Carlisle Cathedral)
- 1850β1856 Philip Armes (later organist of Durham Cathedral)
- 1859β1865 Frederick Bridge, (later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey)
- Alfred Alexander
- ca.1868 Joseph Bridge (later organist of Chester Cathedral)
- 1899β1901 Glanville Hopkins
- 1902β1908 Hector E. Shallcross
- 1919β1921 Alfred H. Allen
- 1921β1930 Percy Whitlock (then organist of St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth)
- 1930β1977 James Alfred Levett
- 1977β1981 David Poulter (subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, and Liverpool Cathedral)
- 1982β1989 Paul Hale (later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster)
- 1989β1994 Roger Sayer
- 1994β1998 William Whitehead
- 1998β2001 Sean Farrell
- 2001β2002 James Eaton (acting)
- 2002β2006 Edmund Aldhouse
- 2006β2010 Dan Soper
- 2010β2014 Samuel Rathbone
- 2014β2018 Claire Innes-Hopkins
- 2018-2024 Jeremy Lloyd
Cathedral Organists
- 2008β2013 Roger Sayer
- 2014β2015 Adrian Bawtree
Assistant Sub-Organists
- 2015 Ben Bloor
- 2016β2018 James Norrey
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. 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
- 1908β1909 John Cawley
- 1921β1930 George C. Straker
- 1936β1939 Sydney John Barlow
- 1945β1951 Frederick Carter
- 1951β1970 John Henry Freeman
- 1970β1975 Simon Lindley
- 1972-1973 Anthony Jennings
- 1975β1976 John Clough
- 1976β2001 Andrew Parnell
- 2001β2008 Simon Johnson (later Assistant Director of Music St Paul's Cathedral)
- 2008βpresent Tom Winpenny
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
This list of organists of St Edmundsbury Cathedral also includes organists of the parish church of St James before it was elevated to Cathedral status in 1914 with the creation of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
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
- 1867β1877 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 notable organists of Salisbury Cathedral have been a number of composers and well-known performers including Bertram Luard-Selby, Charles Frederick South, Sir Walter Galpin Alcock, Sir David Valentine Willcocks, Douglas Guest, Christopher Hugh Dearnley, Richard Godfrey Seal and the BBC presenter Simon Lole.
Organists
- 1463 John Kegewyn
- 1563 Robert Chamberlayne
- 1568 Thomas Smythe
- 1587 John Farrant (Senior)
- 1592 Richard Fuller
- 1598 John Farrant (Junior)
- 1602β1610 John Holmes (previously organist of Winchester Cathedral)
- 1618 Edward Tucker
- 1629 Giles Tompkins
- 1668β1687 Michael Wise
- 1689 Peter Isaacke
- 1692β1698 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, MVO
- 1947 David Valentine Willcocks, CBE, MC (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?β1863 John Elliott Richardson (then organist)
- Thomas Bentinck Richardson (later organist of St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds
- 1881β1884 Albert Edward Wilshire
- 1886β1889 George Street Chignell
- 1917 Herbert Howells
- 1917β1927 Cuthbert Edward Osmond (later organist of St Albans Cathedral)
- 1933β1947 Reginald Moore (later organist of Exeter Cathedral)
- 1947β1950 John Charles Stirling Forster
- 1947β1954 Ronald Tickner
- 1954β1957 Christopher Hugh Dearnley (later organist here, subsequently organist of St Paul's Cathedral, London)
- 1957β1966 Richard Hey Lloyd
- 1967β1974 Michael John Smith (then organist of Llandaff Cathedral)
- 1974β1978 Jonathan Rees-Williams (later organist of Lichfield Cathedral and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle)
- 1978β1985 Colin Walsh (later organist of St Albans Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral)
- 1985β2005 David Halls (later organist, now Director of Music)
- 2005β2011 Daniel Cook (Assistant Director of Music, later Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey, now Organist of Durham Cathedral)
- 2011β2012 Vacant
- 2012βpresent John Challenger (Assistant Director of Music)
Sheffield Cathedral
Notable 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
Assistant Master of the Music
- 1992β1995 Tim Horton
- 1995β1999 Chris Betts
- 1999 Mark Pybus
- 1999β2005 Peter Heginbotham
- 2005β2012 Anthony Gowing
Sub Organists
- ?β1976 Hubert Stafford
- 1975-1979 David G Read
- 1979β1985 Paul Parsons
- 1989β1992 Martin Colton
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 and noted teacher 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
- 1908β1917 Charles Edgar Ford
- 1917β1922 Francis W. Sutton
- 1922 J.C. Bradshaw 1922
- 1923β1925 Ralph William Downes (later Organist of the London Oratory, Brompton, organ consultant and designer, including designer and curator of the Royal Festival Hall organ)
- 1934β1935 Philip Miles
- 1936 Ernest F.A. Suttle
- 1937β1954 Ernest Herbert Warrell
- 1955β1956 William Allen Humpherson
- 1957β1959 Denys Darlow
- 1959β1962 John Flower, Alan Dance, John Oxlade
- 1962β1970 Arthur Newell
- 1971β1974 Christopher Jenkins
- 1975β1978 Nicholas Woods
- 1978β1985 John Scott
- 1985β1988 Andrew Lumsden
- 1988β1997 Stephen Layton
- 1997 Stephen Disley
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? William Lee
- 1754 Samuel Wise
- 1755 Edmund Ayrton
- 1764β1781 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 (formerly Sub-Organist of Guildford Cathedral)
Organists
Assistant Organists:
- ????-1861 W.D. Hall
- W.L. Dodd 1861β1865 (afterwards organist of St Alkmund's Church, Derby)
- ca. 1868 E.D. Hoe
- ca. 1870 H. Nicholson
- ????-1885 G. Fletcher
- 1890β1897 Alfred Winterbotham
- 1897β1902 Lawrence Frederick Baguley
- 1903β1904 Sydney Weale (formerly assistant organist at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent)
- Oswald Steele
- Cecil Wyer ???? β 1919
- 1958β1994 Peter Wood
- 1994β2002 Philip Rushforth (now Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
- 2002β08 Simon Bell (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral, 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:
- 2008β2012 Philip White-Jones (previously Assistant Organist at Winchester Cathedral)
- 2012β2019 Simon Hogan (previously Organ Scholar at St Paul's Cathedral)
- 2019βpresent Jonathan Allsopp (previously Organ Scholar at Westminster Cathedral)
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 (later Sir John Dykes Bower organist of St Paul's Cathedral, London)
- 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 Westminster Abbey)
- 2002 Robert Sharpe (currently Director of Music at York Minster)
- 2008 Christopher Gray (currently Director of Music at St. John's College, Cambridge)
- 2023 James Anderson-Besant
Assistant Organists
- 1885β1886 Ivor Atkins (later knighted, and Organist of Worcester Cathedral)
- 1902β1907 Frederick Rowland Tims
- 1907β1911 William Stanley Sutton
- 1911 Mr. Hall
- Donald Behenna
- 1922β1926 Gerald Hocken Knight (later Organist of Canterbury Cathedral and subsequently Director of the Royal School of Church Music)
- Arthur William Baines
- 1950β1971 John Charles Winter (later Organist and Organist Emeritus)
- 1971β1991 Henry Doughty
- 1991β2000 Simon Morley
- 2000β2008 Christopher Gray
- 2008β2017 Luke Bond
- 2017β2019 Joseph Wicks
- 2019β2020 Michael Butterfield
- 2020βpresent Andrew Wyatt
Wakefield Cathedral
Organist of Wakefield Cathedral have included the following.
Organists
- 1886 Joseph Naylor Hardy
- 1930β1945 Newell Smith Wallbank
- 1945β1970 Percy George Saunders
- 1970β2010 Jonathan Bielby MBE
- 2010β2020 Thomas Moore
- 2020β2021 James Bowstead (Acting)
- 2021- 2022 Ed Jones
- 2023 - James Bowstead
Assistant Organists
- 1896β1900 William Frederick Dunnill
- 1961β1971 John Holt
- 1975β1983 Peter David Gould
- 1983β1985 Gareth Green
- 1985β1991 Keith Wright
- 1991β1996 Sean Farrell
- 1996β2002 Louise Reid (nΓ©e Marsh)
- 2002β2010 Thomas Moore
- 2010 Daniel Justin
- 2011β2015 Simon Earl
- 2015β2017 Sachin Gunga
- 2018β2020 James Bowstead
- 2020β2021 Robert Pecksmith
- 2021- James Bowstead
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 Β£398 1s 5d, however this was destroyed by parliamentary soldiers in 1643 and another new organ was built in 1662, which was enlarged in 1786, and again rebuilt in 1855, a substantial early work of 'Father' Henry Willis. In 1909β1910 a new organ was built by Harrison & Harrison with the best parts of the old organ retained (approximately one-third of the stops being by Willis), and this has been maintained by the same company since.
Organists
- 1416β1418 Walter Bagele (or Vageler)
- 1421β1422 Robert Cator
- 1428β1431 John Marshal
- 1437β1462 John Marchell
- 1461β1462 John Menyman (joint)
- 1461β1462 Richard Hygons (joint)
- 1497β1507 Richard Hygons
- 1507β1508 Richard Bramston
- 1508 John Clawsy (or Clavelleshay)
- 1514 William Mylwhard
- 1515β1531 Richard Bramston
- 1534β1538 John Smyth
- 1547β1554 Nicholas Prynne
- 1556β1557 John Marker
- 1558 Robert Awman
- 1559β1562 William Lyde
- 1563 Thomas Tanner
- 1568 Matthew Nailer
- 1587 John Clerk
- 1600 Thomas Hunt
- 1608 James Weare
- 1613 Edmund Tucker
- 1614 Richard Brown
- 1619β1642 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
- 2020β2022 Jeremy Cole (acting Organist and Master of the Choristers since 2017)
- 2023βpresent Alexander Hamilton (Acting Director of Music)
Assistant Organists
- 1842β1859 Charles William Lavington
- J. Summers
- c. 1880 Frederick Joseph William Crowe (later organist of Chichester Cathedral) c.1880
- 1894β1895 Charles Harry Moody (then acting organist 1895)
- 1896β1897 Frederick William Heck (afterwards organist of Bedminster Parish Church)
- W. J. Bown
- 1904β1906 Richard John Maddern-Williams (later sub-organist of Norwich Cathedral).
- 1906 Kenneth J Miller
- 1908 Edward Percival Oxley (afterwards organist of St Paul's Church, Birmingham)
- 1908 F.P. Wheeldon
- Frank W. Porkess
- 1920β1925 Marmaduke Conway (later organist of Ely Cathedral)
- 1926β1927 C.H. Trevor
- 1927β1933 Conrad William Eden (then organist here and later organist of Durham Cathedral)
- 1938 J.W. Martindale-Sidwell (later organist of St Clement Danes, London)
- 1946β1953 Michael Peterson
- 1961β1970 Anthony Crossland (later organist)
- 1977β1983 David Anthony Cooper (later organist of Blackburn Cathedral)
- 1983β1990 Christopher Brayne (later organist of Bristol Cathedral)
- David Ponsford
- 1990β1994 Andrew Nethsingha
- 1994β2005 Rupert Gough
- 2002β2007 David Bednall (Senior Organ Scholar 2002 β 2004)
- 2007β2017 Jonathan Vaughn
- 2017β2019 Jeremy Cole
- 2019β2020 James Gough (temporary)
- 2020β Alexander Hamilton (Assistant Director of Music)
- 2023β2023 Adam Wilson (Acting Assistant Director of Music)
Sub-Assistant Organists
- 2019β2020 David Stevens (formerly Organist and Master of the Choristers of Belfast Cathedral)
- 2021 Adam Wilson (formerly Acting Assistant Master of the Music of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal))
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, John Reading, Daniel Roseingrave, James Kent, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the composer of sacred music, who was also responsible for the acquisition of the Cathedral organ, Martin Neary, who arranged the music for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and choral director David Hill.
Organists
Organists were formerly titled "Organist and Master of the Choristers" then, briefly, "Organist and Master of the Music" and now "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 (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
Sometimes the appointment has been as "Sub-organist" or, in recent years, "Assistant Director of Music"
- 1787β1802 George William Chard (later Organist)
- 1851β1854 George Mursell Garrett (later Organist of Madras Cathedral, subsequently Organist of St John's College, Cambridge and Organist to Cambridge University)
- 1863β?? Thomas Somerford
- ????-1869 E.H. Birch
- 1876 Charles Lee Williams (later Organist of Llandaff Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral)
- William Prendergast (later Organist)
- 1898β?? Alfred Ernest Floyd
- E. Gilbert
- 1902β1904 Louis H. Torr
- 1906 George C. Macklin
- 1906β1913 Howard Roscoe Eady
- 1908β?? James Frederick Parsons
- Henry William Radford
- 1912β1921 Henry William Stubbington (later Organist of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham)
- 1919 Hilda Bird
- Horace Hawkins (later organist of Chichester Cathedral)
- W. Brennand Smith
- Cyril John Tucker Fogwell
- Gillian Skottowe (now Gillian Earl)
- 1958β1967 Graham Hedley Matthews (later Organist of Sheffield Cathedral)
- 1967β?? Clement McWilliam
- 1975β1985 James Lancelot (later Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral, also Lay Canon and now Lay Canon Organist Emeritus there also, from September 2018, Interim Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral)
- 1985β1991 Timothy Byram-Wigfield (later successively Organist of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal), Jesus College, Cambridge, St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and All Saints, Margaret Street, London)
- 1991β1996 David Dunnett (later Organist and Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral)
- 1996β1998 Stephen Farr (later Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral, Organist of Worcester College, Oxford and from April 2020 Organist and Director of Music All Saints, Margaret Street, London)
- 1999β2002 Philip Scriven (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Lichfield Cathedral)
- 2002β2008 Sarah Baldock (later Organist and Master of Choristers at Chichester Cathedral)
- 2003β2008 Philip White-Jones (later Assistant Director of Music at Southwell Minster)
- 2008 Richard McVeigh (Assistant Organist)
- 2008β2012 Simon Bell (Assistant Director of Music, later Director of Music of the 'Schola Cantorum' at Tewkesbury Abbey)
- 2012β2021 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, Christopher Robinson, the composers Thomas Tomkins, William Hayes, Hugh Blair, and conductors Sir David Willcocks, Donald Hunt and Adrian Lucas.
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)
- 2012β2018 Peter Nardone
- 2019 Samuel Hudson
Assistant Organists (and Assistant Directors of Music from 2012)
- 1835β1844 William Done (later organist)
- 1846β1847 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
- 1887β1895 Hugh Blair (later organist)
- 1893β1899 Frank Alfred Charles Mason
- 1893β1896 George Street Chignell
- 1904β1909 Edgar Thomas Cook (later organist of Southwark Cathedral)
- ????-1912 Alexander E. Brent Smith
- 1912β1962 Edgar F.Day
- 1962β1963 Christopher Robinson (later organist; then successively organist of St. Georgeβs Chapel, Windsor Castle and St John's College, Cambridge)
- 1963β1976 Harry Bramma (later organist of Southwark Cathedral)
- 1976β1981 Paul Trepte (later organist of Ely Cathedral)
- 1981β1991 Adrian Partington (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
- 1991β1998 Raymond Johnston (later Canon Musician of St Markβs Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis)
- 1998β2004 Daniel Phillips
- 2004β2018 Christopher Allsop (subsequently Assistant Director of Music, King's School, Worcester and Organist of Eton College)
- 2018β Nicholas Freestone
Sub-Assistant Organists (and Voluntary Choir Choirmasters)
- 2007β2008 Simon Bertram
- 2008β2012 George Castle (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral)
- 2012β2014 James Luxton (later Assistant Director of Music at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)
- 2014β2016 Justin Miller
- 2017β2019 Richard Cook
- 2019β2021 Ed Jones
Organists of the Worcester Cathedral Voluntary Choir
- 1981β2021 John Wilderspin
York Minster
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 James Nares, Edwin George Monk, John Naylor, Thomas Tertius Noble and Francis Jackson.
Organists
The organists of York Minster have had several official titles, including "Master of the Music"; 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". The names of Organists prior to 1633 have been copied from the list of Organists of York Minster 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
- 1842β1848 Thomas Simpson Camidge
- ????-1878 Edward Johnson Bellerby
- ????-1879 Mark James Monk
- 1891β1892 Thomas William Hanforth
- 1892 Charles Legh Naylor
- ????-1902 Frederick Flaxington Harker
- 1902β1906 Edwin Fairbourn
- 1906β1910 William Green
- 1910β1914 Cyril Francis Musgrove
- 1917β1923 Harold Aubie Bennett
- 1924β1929 J. Lawrence Slater
- 1929β1941, 1946 Owen Le Patourel Franklin
- 1946 Francis Jackson (later Organist and Master of the Music)
- 1947β1954 Allan Wicks (later organist of Canterbury Cathedral)
- 1954β1957 Eric Parsons
- 1957β1966 Ronald Edward Perrin (later organist of Ripon Cathedral)
- 1966β1967 Peter J. Williams
- 1969β1971 A. Wilson Dixon
- 1971β1975 Geoffrey Coffin
- 1976β2002 John Scott Whiteley (Organist, 2001β2010)
- 2010β2016 David Pipe (later organist of Leeds Cathedral)
- 2016 Benjamin Morris
Assisting Organists
- 2016β2018 Jeremy Lloyd
- 2018β2020 Christopher Strange
- 2021β2023 Asher Oliver (Assistant Organist)
- 2023βPresent Adam Wilson
See also
- List of musicians at Welsh cathedrals
- List of Westminster Abbey organists
- List of Masters of the Children of the Chapel Royal
Notes
- ^ The sacking of the 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
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