This table is a transcribed as faithfully as possible from a manuscript in PAT's hand in the possession of the late John West, entitled "Caian Musicians, Organ Scholars, Choral Scholars and Exhibitioners". Wikipedia links etc in the "More" column have been added. The "§" in the manuscript indicated choral exhibitioners.
NB transcription work in progress!
Year | Position | Name | Notes | More |
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1884-5 | Pilcher Percy W. | Assistant Master (Music) Shrewsbury School til death 3 May 1937 | ||
1888-9 | Wood Charles | Fellow 1894-1926. Prof. Cantab. Chairman RMA. Composer. Died 12 July 1926. Co-founder of Scales Club | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wood_%28composer%29 | |
1890-91 | Phillips HV. | Choirmaster Fettes College. 1893. Private Sec to Asquith 1917-22. MP. Chairman of Lib. Party. Org. JP for Kent. died 16 Jan 1955 | ||
1890-91 | Rösing AH. | Professional singer. Died 9 Feb 1911 | ||
1898-9 | Shaw Geoffrey T. (brother of Martin) |
(Mus Doc Lambeth). Master/Organist Gresham's School Holt. HM Inspector of Music, Board of Education. BBC Schools Music Chairman. died 14 April 1943. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Turton_Shaw | |
1904-5 | Bonhote TE. | Pro singer: USA concerts. Germany opera. Master (1921), Housemaster (1932) & Head of MML (retired 1945), at Westminster School. Died 10 Jan 1970. | ||
1905-6 | Wilkinson G.J. | Composer & teacher. Killed 1 July 1916 in action. | https://www.warcomposers.co.uk/wilkinson | |
1908-9 | Statham H.D. | Organist & Mus. Director. St Michael's Coll. Tenbury. Norwich Cathedral 1928- CBE 1967. Died Oct 1973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathcote_Dicken_Statham | |
1910-11 | Hulbert JN. | Actor & filmstar. Died 25 Mar 1978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hulbert | |
1910-11 | Taylor G.H. | Churchman. Died 14 Dec 1961 | ||
1911 | Elborne W. | Organist Knaresborough (1914-17) & Harrogate (1918-20). Ordained 1944. Retired 1955. | ||
1911 | Hart H.E. | Director. Huntley & Palmer Biscuits. Died 1 Sept 1976 | ||
1914 | Smallwood A.M. | Rugby blue. International. Master/HouseMaster Uppingham School. 1920- | ||
1919 | Everard EGS | Headmaster Winterdyne Sch, Birkdale, Southport | ||
1920 | Chamberlain Ronald A. | Lecturer Trin Coll Music London. 1924- . Labour MP for Slough Norwood division of Lambeth. 1945-50. Composer. Governor of Mdx Hospital. | ||
1921 | Tatton JM. | HM Inspector of Schools 1932-36. Member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem - Knight Commander 1956. Poet. Composer of songs & choral work. Died 4 July 70 | ||
1923 | Neel L. Boyd. | Medic turned to Music. Boyd Neel String Orch. BBC work. Conductor Sadlers Wells Opera 1944-45. D'Oyly Carte Opera 1948-49. Dean of Royal Conservatory Toronto 1953. CBE 1953. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Neel | |
1923 | Warr Eric H. | Mus Director Carl Rosa Opera Co. 1930-34. Other opera companies 1935-36. Conductor & B.B.C. (various) 1936-1967. (Retired). | ||
1925 | Bryan A.L. | Churchman | ||
1925 | Cooke Arnold A. | Composer. Teacher Royal Manchester Coll of Music 1933-. Mus D 1948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Cooke | |
1925 | Thompson E.C. | Army. (incl 1933 Mount Everest Expedition) | ||
1926 | Barry P.M. | Churchman | ||
1926 | Glock William F. | BBC music director 1959-1972 ("Controller of Music"). Correspondent for Observer. Knighted 1970. Assistant Director of Bath Festival 1975- | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Glock | |
1928 | Smith JRM. | Music Master. King's Sch. Bruton 1933. Killed in action Dec 1941. | ||
1930 | § | Blaikie FWL. | Engineer with Babcock & Wilcox | |
1931 | Org | Pritchard W.D. | (Org Sch) (RCM 1934 student) Director of Music Cheltenham College. Retired 1973. | |
1931 | § | Shaw J. | Commercial aviation | |
1932 | § | Marsden R.E. | Churchman | |
1933 | § | Drew JM. | Medic | |
1933 | § | Tidmarsh RGW. | Churchman | |
1934 | § | Parsons A.T. | Schoolmaster Whitgift School | |
1934 | Org | Smith-Masters A.B. | Org Schol. Housemaster/Music Director Monkton Combe School | |
1935 | § | Wigram M.W. | Director of Music of Ottershaw School. Conductor Brooklands Festival Orch 1963. Ordained c1970. | |
1936 | § | Munn JCW. | (§ 6 terms only) changed name to Napier-Munn 1967. | |
1936 | § | Watson P. | ||
1937 | Org | Gray, Antony TA. | Schoolmaster. Teaching staff of RCM, St Paul's Sch. 1968- | |
1938 | Fellow | Hadley Patrick A.S. | Prof of Music. Composer. Died 17 Dec 1973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Hadley |
1938 | § | de Hamel, T.E.B. | Industry (EB Hamel & Son Ltd). Chairman of Tape Manufacturers Assoc. 1960. | |
1938 | § | Todds Walter H. | BBC. Senior Producer (T.V.) 1965. | |
1939 | § | Gibson B.H. | Business in London. (Insurance brokerage) | |
1940 | Org | Goodman P. | RCM student. Organist. Hull. Music Master Kingston High Sch. Hull. Hull City Organist 1957- |
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1940 | § | Heywood P. | Schoolmaster. H.M. of William Sharp Comprehensive, Nottingham 1968 | |
1940 | § | Lewis P.S. | Churchman. died 2 Nov 65 | |
1941 | § | Moore AD. | Medic | |
1942 | § | Gould D.O.M. | (3 terms only) | |
1943 | Org | Chambers G.J. | (2 terms only). Navy (Lt Cmdr) | |
1943 | Org | Smith "Colin Kingsley" | Pro recitalist (piano) | |
1944 | § | Gibson James | 1959 Répétiteur Cov. Gdn. Opera House. Dept of Environment 1975- | |
1945 | § | Rutter FC. | Medic | |
1946 | Mus Org? | Holland, Wilfred M. | Music Director Dover College. Canberra Grammar Sch. Conductor Canberra Symph. Orch 1962. Examiner Australian Exam Board. 1966. | |
1946 | Mus § | Hughes Brian J. | ||
1948 | Mus | Dart, Robert Thurston | as MA (???). V.A.L. in Music. Fellow of Jesus 1953. Prof London Univ. 1964. Died 6 Mar 71. | |
1948 | § | Blackledge GD. | Medic. RAF. | |
1948 | Mus § | Foulkes A.G. | Schoolmaster. Sutton Valence School. (1964 Director of Music) | |
1948 | § | Harfield L.J. | Schoolmaster. Then Westminster Bank Ltd. | |
1949 | Mus Org | Swale J. David | Schoolmaster Christ's Hospital. St Peters Coll, Adelaide. 1961. Senior Lecturer Univ. Adelaide. Cathedral Organist Adelaide. | |
1950 | Mus/Eng § | Boole R. | Theology teacher Ridley Hall (Cantab). | |
1950 | § | Jenkins D.A. | Schoolmaster. Archivist Moscow Embassy. MBE 1966. | |
[1950 | Nash, David L. Heddle | (read MML) (son of operatic tenor) Adopted Music as profession.] | ||
1950 | Mus | Sadie, Stanley J. |
Music Criticism & editorship (PhD 1958). Journalism. Groves Dictionary 1979. |
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1950 | Mus | Trowell, Brian L. | UAL Birmingham. Prof King's London, Prof Oxford. | |
[1951 | Bricusse Leslie C. | read MML. Writer, actor, producer, composer.] | ||
1951 | § | Cochrane J.M. | ||
1951 | § | Flower C.J. | Paper Maker. | |
1951 | § | Jesson B.H. | London Advertising firm. | |
1951 | § | Rees RSO. | Medic | |
1952 | § | Beale P.J. | Medic | |
1952 | Mus | Lord Phillip J. | UAL Aberdeen. died June 1969 | |
1952 | Org Mus | Sanders John D. | Asst Organist Gloucester Cathedral, Organist Chester Cathedral. Organist Gloucester Cathedral 1967. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sanders_%28musician%29 |
1952 | § | Smith D.B. | Schoolmaster | |
1953 | Mus/Eng § | Bishop Christopher S. | Schoolmaster Magdalen Coll. Sch. Oxford. Dir. of Mus. Bishop's Stortford Coll. EMI & orchestral management 1973- | |
1953 | § | Hossick, M.A. | ||
1953 | § | Taylor A.C. | ||
1954 | § | Wenham J.T. | Churchman | |
1954 | § | Hemmings, Peter W. | New Opera Co London. Management. Sadlers Wells 1959-65. Scottish Opera Management. 1962- | |
1954 | Mus § | James D.W. | U.L. Exeter Univ. 1968. Conductor Univ Opera Soc Exeter. 1970. | |
1954 | § | Ponsonby S.D. | (3 terms only) | |
1954 | Mus/Hist § | Renshaw, Peter. | HM. Yehudi Menuhin School. 1976. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Renshaw |
1954 | Mus | Silk, Richard J. | Dir. of Music Magdalen Coll. Sch. Lecturer Birmingham Sch. of Music 1971. | |
1955 | § | Eden, H. | Asst. Master Felsted School. 1960-65. Abingdon Sch. 1965. | |
1955 | Org Mus | Edwards, J.M. | Head of Music. Bury Grammar Sch. 1963. | |
1955 | § | Potts, A.M.L | Master at Christ's Hosp, Bp's Stortford Coll. Industry: Sellotape 1966. DRG Holdfast Products 1977. | |
1956 | § | Clynes, P.R. | Choral Director, Vocal Consultant etc, New Jersey, USA. | |
1956 | § | Davies, C.T.R. | ||
1956 | Mus | Foad, Michael J.L. | Director of Music, Bootham School York 1964, Tutor Shepway Adult Edu Centre Folkestone 1975. | |
1956 | § | Hunt, D.R. | Principal Scientific Officer Royal Botanic Gdns Kew 1974. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hunt_(botanist) |
1956 | § | Peck, A.J. | U.L. York Univ. 1973 | |
1956 | § | Rawson, J.V. | Industry: Managing Director Robert H. Hall (Kent) Ltd 1973. | |
1956 | Mus | Reynish, Timothy J. | Senior Lecturer Northern Coll. of Music, Manchester 1975. | |
1956 | § | Sutton D.F. | ||
1957 | Mus | Alwyn, Nicholas | (Son of composer. Hist then Music Tripos Pt II) | |
1957 | Mus | Blackwood, Brian W. | Classics degree then Music PhD 1972. Double bass in London orchestras Teacher Trin Coll of Music |
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1957 | Mus | Blake, David L. | UL York 1971, Prof York Univ 1976- | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blake_(composer) |
1957 | Mus | Cudworth, ("Charles") Cyril L.E. | MA of Coll. Later fellow of Wolfson Coll. Librarian then Curator of Pendlebury Library of Music Died 26 Dec 1977 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cudworth |
1957 | Mus | Wookey, David J. | Director of Music Bexhill Grammar Sch. 1970. | |
1957 | § | Armstrong, N. Alan | ||
1957 | § | Clark, David H. | Churchman | |
1957 | § | Mahon, Charles J. | Lawyer (Barrister, Manchester) | |
1957 | § | Yates, Christopher M. | Manager: New Philharmonia Orch 1965-74 Manager: Northern Sinfonia Orch 1974- |
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2015/feb/26/christopher-yates-obituary |
1958 | § | Copestoke, B. Colin | Housemaster MML master Monmouth Sch. 1973 | |
1958 | § | Drummond, Michael E. | ||
1958 | Org Theol/Mus | Neary, Martin G.J. | Organist: St. Margaret's Westminster, Winchester Cathedral 1972, Westminster Abbey 1987(?1988) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Neary |
1959 | Mus | Beck, David | Music Librarian 1963-65. Violinist Hallé Orch. 65-73. Northern Symph Orch. 74-76. Hallé Orch. 1976- | |
1959 | § | Dennis, Brian J.C. | (resided 3 terms only) | |
1959 | Mus | Downie, John R. | ||
1959 | Mus | Eden, William | Music Master | |
1959 | § | Markwick, Christopher W. | Social worker and Probation Officer | |
1959 | § | Smeed, Geoffrey S.H. | Solicitor, London | |
1959 | § | Wigginbottom, Michael J. | Architect | |
1959 | § | Tranchell, Peter A. | Director of Studies in Music, 1959. Fellow 1960. Precentor 1962. Domestic Bursar 1962-6, 1973. | |
To be continued...