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Greer is black, gay, and Canon Precentor at Saint John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.

He was the incumbent at Rathfarnham then Precentor of Elphin Cathedral.

A precentor is a person, usually ordained, who is in charge of preparing worship services. This position is usually held in a large church. Most cathedrals have a precentor in charge of the organisation of liturgy and worship. The precentor of a cathedral is usually a residentiary canon or prebendary and may be assisted by a succentor (particularly in the daily task of leading choral singing).

He was Precentor of Cloyne Cathedral from 1946 until his appointment as Archdeacon.

The chief precentor was the highest position in many ancient Mesopotamian cities (see Music of Mesopotamia).

He was Precentor of Ardfert Cathedral from 1905 to 1916. He died on 15 August 1918.

As precentor, Wulfstan fulfilled these duties and solidified Aethelwold's position as an honoured Anglo-Saxon saint.

Alterations and renovations costing £4,000 were undertaken in 1954. Also a double garage was built, replacing the coach house and stables. The Dean moved into the northern section of the building and the Precentor occupied the southern half. Recently, the Precentor moved to nearby St Martin's House.

The reasons for this change are not clear, but Thomas never became a consecrated Bishop of Galloway nor did he ever attain another bishopric. In 1468, he exchanged the deanery of Glasgow with James Lindsay to become Precentor of Elgin Cathedral ("Precentor of Moray").Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp.

The performance of the shirah (poem) at wedding celebrations by the professional meshorer (precentor) opens with a melodious tune; the ghuṣn lines (the first lines that open the rhyme in the first strophe) being by nature slow and full of yearning. When the precentor reaches the third line of the ghuṣn, the tempo becomes more charged. At this point another person joins the performance, not necessarily an experienced precentor, who sings the second part of each line, or repeats the short tawshīḥ lines.

The jongleur Liliwin relies on a rebec to make music. He is a singer with his voice in the high range, as noted by the Precentor Brother Anselm. The Precentor is completely absorbed in music in his life as a monk, guiding the singing for daily services in the monastery, composing music for special Masses, and educated in both reading and writing the notes, a skill he teaches the jongleur Liliwin. The Precentor is also skilled in making and maintaining musical instruments.

The dean and chapter together appoint the precentor, while the other members of the chapter are appointed by the archbishop.

He was succentor for one year, before serving as precentor from 1942 to 1944. He died on 30 July 2011.

His last appointment before being ordained to the episcopate was as precentor and a residentiary canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

Oxford, OUP, 1891 p61 He became Rector of Ulcombe from 1583; Precentor of Chichester from 1587; and Canon from 1593.

Nicholas Upton (1400?–1457), was an English cleric, precentor of Salisbury, and writer on heraldry and the art of war.

His colleagues were Robert Cooper, precentor of Peterhead Parish Church, William Clubb, precentor at Crimond, and William Carnie, a journalist from Aberdeen. Irvine submitted the tune to Carnie. The Northern Psalter was published in 1872, but with credited solely to David Grant as its composer. The new hymnal was very successful and sold over 70,000 copies.

The precentor of the new Coventry Cathedral at the opening service was Joseph Poole. The service was televised and watched by many.

The Cathedral of St-Étienne was served by a Chapter,On the Chapter and its rights, see: Grenier, pp. 61–72. composed of three dignities (The Dean, The Precentor, and the Archdeacon), and twenty-nine canons. The Dean held a prebend, as did the Precentor. There was only one Archdeacon in the diocese, the Archdeacon of Limoges (sometimes called the Archdeacon of Malemort).

Henry, H. (1911). "Precentor". In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved June 15, 2010 from New AdventPrecentor, The Cistercians in Yorkshire.

22 After graduation he returned to Falkland where he found employment as the parish school teacher and precentor in late 1669 or early 1670.

Foliot appointed his younger brother Thomas to offices in the diocese, first as precentor in the 1220s and then around 1230 as treasurer of the cathedral chapter.

Next to the dean (as a rule) is the precentor (primicerius, cantor, etc.), whose special duty is that of regulating the musical portion of the services. The precentor presides in the dean's absence, and occupies the corresponding stall on the north side, although there are exceptions to this rule, where, as at St Paul's, the archdeacon of the cathedral city ranks second and occupies what is usually the precentor's stall.

He was also precentor at Netherfield Road Calvinist Methodist chapel in Liverpool, and along with John Edwards he conducted the first Welsh singing festival held in Liverpool, in 1880.

Holland was precentor at Gibraltar Cathedral and then chaplain of Christ Church, Naples. He returned to London to be vicar of St Mark's, Bromley, before his ordination to the episcopate.

In 1667 he became Archdeacon of Killaloe"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p486 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and in 1668 Precentor of Leighlin.

In the absence of the dean and precentor the chancellor is president of the chapter. The easternmost stall, on the dean's side of the choir, is usually assigned to the chancellor.

At the time, Grant was collaborating with a group of associates compiling hymns and metrical psalms from across the North of Scotland with the intention of publishing them in a new hymnal. His colleagues were Robert Cooper, precentor of Peterhead Parish Church, William Clubb, precentor at Crimond, and William Carnie, a journalist from Aberdeen. Irvine submitted the tune to Carnie. The Northern Psalter was published in 1872, but with credited solely to David Grant as its composer.

By 1641, the Vicar of Coolock (and again, also Curate at Raheny) was Thomas Seele, who was also during his career Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral and Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral.

Recently the building was renovated, and in November 1990 St Martin's House was opened as the administrative headquarters for the Anglican Diocese. The top floor was converted to living quarters for the Precentor.

The following year he left to take Holy Orders and was successively Minor Canon Precentor of Chester Cathedral (1877–89), Vicar of New Brighton (1889 - 1904), and Rector of Bathwick, Bath (1904–16).

The responsories are similar in form to the antiphons, but come at the end of the psalm, being originally the reply of the choir or congregation to the precentor who recited the psalm.

The correct date is 21 May 1095. See Philipp Jaffé, Regesta pontificum Romanorum I (Leipzig 1885), no. 5565. The approbation of Urban II was confirmed by Pope Anastasius IV in 1154. The Chapter included as officers the two Archdeacons, two archpriests, a Sacristan, a Precentor, a Chamberlain, an Eleemosynary, and a master of the works. In 1439, the canons were secularized by Pope Eugenius IV, and the Chapter came to have as officers a Dean, the Archdeacon, a Precentor, and a Sacristan.

Works in 10 volumes. Vol.2. 106"Kyivan Past", 1882. Book 9. 562 As an apprentice, Taras carried water, heated up a school, served the precentor, read psalms over the dead and continued to study.

Dabbs – Juxton, (1922) p359 He held livings at Alburgh, Edgefield and Bolton Percy. At a time when plurality was common he was also a prebendary of York from 1744; and Precentor of Salisbury from 1754.

John Saxton DD (d. 1382) was a Canon of Windsor from 1368 to 1382Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Precentor of Exeter.

In some cathedrals (including Canterbury), the precentor is a minor canon and therefore part of the foundation but not part of the chapter. The pulpit and communion table from the Church of Scotland church in Duirinish, Skye. Between the two is the box for the precentor. Traditionally the precentor's stall (seat) in the cathedral is on the opposite side of the quire from that of the dean, leading to the traditional division of the singers into decani (the dean's side) and cantoris (the precentor's side).

Michael Edward Tavinor (born 11 September 1953)Who's Who 2012 – TAVINOR, Michael Edward is the current Dean of Hereford. He was educated at Durham University, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (PGCE 1976), and King's College London and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1983.Crockfords(London, Church House 1995) He was a Curate at St Peter's Church, Ealing and then Precentor at Ely Cathedral and whilst Precentor was also Priest in charge at Holy Cross, Stuntney. He then became Vicar of Tewkesbury Abbey.

At the Old Minster, Wulfstan studied under Æthelwold of Winchester, about whom he wrote write his Vita S. Aethelwoldi. Wulfstan became a monk and a priest; he then rose to become a precentor, and hence is often referred to in contemporary sources as Wulfstan Cantor. As precentor, Wulfstan would have been responsible for leading chants, recruiting and training the choir, and composing poems and hymns, among other things. In addition to these musical responsibilities, Wulfstan worked as a scribe and as a hagiographic author.

Before the French Revolution, the Cathedral Chapter consisted of a Praepositus (Provost), the Archdeacon and the Precentor (the dignities, dignités) and fifteen canons. There were approximately 200 parishes, and one abbey.Gallia christiana I, pp. 85-86.

In 1963, he left the school to become full-time sacristan at Winchester Cathedral and was made precentor in 1967; he was made a canon in 1966 and became canon emeritus when he retired in 1974.

Book 3. 6Archives, fund 127, descr. 1013, case 164, sheet 798 Soon his stepmother along with her children returned to Moryntsi. Taras went to work for precentor (dyak) Bohorsky who had just arrived from Kyiv in 1824.

John Calder the Precentor also secured the lands in the burgh of Nairn that belonged to the Calders for his nephew, William Calder the Vicar. The Calders of Asswanly had also received lands near Elgin in 1440.

In 1644, lining out – where one person sang a solo (a precentor) and others followed – is outlined by the Westminster Assembly for psalm singing in English churches. It has influenced popular music singing styles. Precenting the line was characterised by a slow, drawn-out heterophonic and often profusely ornamented melody, while a clerk or precentor (song leader) chanted the text line by line before it was sung by the congregation. Scottish Gaelic psalm-singing by precenting the line was the earliest form of congregational singing adopted by Africans in America.

A precentor is a person who helps facilitate worship. The details vary depending on the religion, denomination, and era in question. The Latin derivation is præcentor, from cantor, meaning "the one who sings before" (or alternatively, "first singer").

From 1927 he served as precentor and from 1936 organist of St Peter's Cathedral as well as teaching music at Pulteney Grammar School. He composed music for a Nativity play a recessional hymn an anthem and hymn tunes.

Devic and Vassete, Histoire general de Languedoc IV, p. 422. The Cathedral of Alet was served by a Chapter, composed of twelve canons. The dignities were: the Dean, the Archdeacon, the Treasurer and the Precentor. There were sixteen beneficiaries.

Sykes used many pseudonyms, some of them shared with others. One, used in the book on "demoniacks", was T.P.A.P.O.A.B.I.T.C.O.S., standing for "The Precentor and Prebendary of Alton Borealis in the Church of Sarum".Disney pp. 207–8; Google Books.

After a curacy in Croydon he was precentor at St Albans Abbey from 1982 to 1986. He was rector of Timsbury with Priston from 1986 to 1993, and team rector of Ilminster from 1993 until his appointment as archdeacon.

In 1669 he became perpetual curate of St. Thomas's and rector of St. Edmund's, Salisbury. He next wrote on the evidences (1671). On 11 September 1672 he was installed precentor at Salisbury, and at once accumulated B.D. and D.D. (13 September).

In the Middle Ages the principal dignitaries of cathedral, collegiate chapters, and monastic orders, imitated the example of St. Gregory the Great in acting as directors of chant-schools. The schola was always in attendance when the bishop officiated in his cathedral, and to the precentor was assigned a place near the bishop and high in dignity. His office was obviously one demanding much learning and executive ability, and his dignity corresponded with his duties. In the cathedrals of England, France, Spain, and Germany, a precentor sometimes ranked next to the dean, sometimes next to the archdeacon.

In Presbyterian churches that worship in the historical fashion (i.e., sing a cappella; see Presbyterian worship), a precentor is a person (man or woman, not necessarily clergy) who leads the singing, often by means of conducting techniques, but sometimes just by singing from amongst the congregation. Churches that use a repeat-after-me manner of singing called lining out (used primarily when sufficient numbers of psalm books are unavailable, or the congregation insufficiently literate, as was the case in the black church in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird) are usually led by the precentor, much as with other non-instrumental churches.

Soon after, he would become the conductor of both Cefn Mawr choral society, which consisted of around 100 voices, and the male voice choir in 1889. Simultaneously, Hughes was a precentor at Capel Mawr, Rhosllannerchrugog, for a short while. G.W.Hughes studied the Tonic Sol-fa System before gaining a degree in this subject, it was then in 1900 in which he was elected to the Council of the Tonic Sol-fa College. Before moving to Prestatyn in 1926 upon his retirement, G.W.Hughes was chosen to be a stipendiary precentor at Princes Road Welsh Capel Mawr Chapel, Liverpool, in 1911.

Symeon entered the Benedictine monastery at Jarrow as a youth. It moved to Durham in 1074, and he was professed in 1085 or 1086. When William of Saint-Calais returned from his Norman exile in 1091, Symeon was probably in his company. Symeon eventually became precentor of the priory, and examples of his handwriting appear to survive in several Durham books, including the Liber Vitae, the so-called Cantor's Book (whose text he would have had to keep up to date as part of his duties as precentor), and in copies of his own historical works.

With a view to checking the abuses committed in the celebration of the Feast of Fools on New Year's Day at Notre-Dame de Paris in the twelfth century, the celebration was not entirely banned, but the part of the "Lord of Misrule" or "Precentor Stultorum" was restrained, so that he was to be allowed to intone the prose "Laetemur gaudiis", and to wield the precentor's staff, but this before the first Vespers of the feast, not during it. During the second Vespers, it had been the custom that the precentor of the fools should be deprived of his staff when the verse in the Magnificat, Deposuit potentes de sede ("He has put down the mighty from their seat") was sung. Hence the feast was often known as the "Festum 'Deposuit'". Eudes de Sully allowed the staff to be taken at that point from the mock precentor, but laid down that the verse "Deposuit" not be repeated more than five times.

Jewish precentors are song or prayer leaders, leading synagogue music. A Jewish precentor is typically called a hazzan or cantor. In the Middle Ages, women precentors leading prayers in the weibershul (women's gallery) were known as firzogerin, vorsangerin, foreleiner, zugerin, or zugerke.

After a curacy in Leeds he was Precentor and Sacrist at Durham Cathedral then Dean of Belize. On his return from British Honduras he held incumbencies in London, Wormley and Bushey Heath. From 1963 to 1967 he was Principal of Bishop's College, Cheshunt.

The cathedral was served by a chapterLabande, p. 38. which had four dignities: the provost (praepositus), the archdeacon, the sacristan, and the precentor. There were also six canons, each of whom had a prebend attached to his office.Gallia christiana I, pp. 919-920.

743 A notable early member of this family was Nicholas UptonRisdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, p.158 (c.1400–1457), a cleric, Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral and a writer on heraldry and the art of war.

Keys acted as precentor of Exeter Cathedral in 1467 and 1469, and apparently held the post till his death. In 1469 he made a present of books to Exeter College, Oxford. He died on 11 November 1477, and was buried at Exeter.

The Neil Campbell who was recorded as the parson of Kilmartin and precentor of Lismore Cathedral in 1574 is probably him too.MacDonald, "Campbell, Neil (d. 1613?)"; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 32. Following the death of James Hamilton in 1580, Neil Campbell became Bishop of Argyll.

At various times he visited the dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, Peterborough, and Ely. In 1560 he became an advocate of Doctors' Commons, and afterwards was made a master in chancery. In 1560 also he became precentor of Canterbury and master of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Hamo was a 12th- and 13th-century English cleric. He was the Diocese of York's dean, treasurer, and precentor, as well as the archdeacon of East Riding. Nothing is known of Hamo's background or early years.Hill and Brooke "From 627" History of York Minster p.

Cook was made precentor of Exeter Cathedral in 1872. He resigned his preachership at Lincoln's Inn in 1880. He was an invalid during the last years of his life, and died at Exeter on 22 June 1889. He left his library to the cathedral chapter.

He became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, through the influence of Ormonde. He held these positions until his death. He was consecrated as Bishop of Ossory in 1672, and also appointed as rector of Llaniestyn, Anglesey.

Master Jiyu in 1989. She was chaplain to Rev. Master Jiyu for more than 15 years and has served the community as Vice Abbess, Chief Cook, Chief Precentor, Prior and Novice Master. She also served as Executive Secretary of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives. Rev.

In 1728 he became the St. Mary's Cathedral precentor of Hamburg (succeeding Johann Mattheson to the post), and wrote largely church music there until his death in 1739. In an obituary, his colleague Mattheson described him as "the greatest opera composer in the world".

Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Mascall-Meyrick Massingberd was Rector of Abington-juxta-Shengay from 1511 to 1515. He held the offices of Canon, Treasurer, Precentor and Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Stow from 24 August 1543 until his death on 8 March 1553.

He held the position of Precentor of Keble College between 1892 and 1903, and was Choragus at the University from 1900 until his retirement. He edited The Oxford Hymn Book (1908) as well as acting as an Oxford examiner for several academic years between 1900 and 1915.

Wilfrid Horace Oldaker (13 June 1901 – 28 September 1978) was a clergyman of the Church of England, classical scholar, author, schoolmaster, Chaplain at Clifton College, Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral School, and head of the Junior School at King's School, Canterbury.

From 1999, he was a residentiary canon of Southwark Cathedral. From 1999 to 2000, he was vice-provost and precentor. In 2000, all primae inter pares of cathedral clergy became known as deans; previously some heads of chapters were titled provost while some were titled dean.

Watt, Dictionary, p. 6. Albin became precentor of Brechin Cathedral, the first known person to hold that office; he was not, however, recorded in that position until the summer of 1246, when he was confirmed as Bishop of Brechin.Watt, Dictionary, p. 6; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 45.

His brother, Peter Allwood, was the former Director of Music at Christ's Hospital before he became a headmaster. He was replaced as Precentor at Eton by Tim Johnson, who was previously the director of music at The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster, in September 2011.

Jones was ordained deacon in 1967 and priest in 1968. He was a curate at Stafford Parish Church until 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he was precentor of St Paul's Cathedral in Dundee. Following this, he became team vicar of St Hugh's in Gosforth for seven years.

Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Riader-Roissie He held livings at East Treswell, Fulbeck, Thornton, Great Easton, Brant Broughton, Fishtoft, Caistor, Kingston Bagpuze, Gransden and Somersham. Robinson became Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral in 1573; and Archdeacon of Bedford in 1574, holding both positions until his death in 1598.

He was Precentor of Limerick Cathedral from 1689 until 1690;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p399 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Dean of Clonfert from 1670 until his death."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H.

According to Edward Irving Carlyle writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, Richard Sherry has sometimes been identified with John Sherry (d. 1551), who was in 1541 archdeacon of Lewes and rector of Chailey in Sussex; he became precentor of St. Paul's, London, in 1543, and died in 1551.

John Duport (died 1617) was an English scholar and translator. Dr John Duport was born in Shepshed in Leicestershire. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1574. In 1583 he became rector of Fulham, and in 1585 precentor of St Paul's Cathedral.

Baluze, p. 1352. The correct date is 1410; in March and April 1409 Pierre de Tnury was in Pisa at the Council. Archbishop Philippe died on 28 September 1415: Eubel, p. 316. Another brother, Renaud, was Precentor, and then Dean of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Lyon.

At one time a Precentor led the singing in the church from a stall beside the pulpit, until, in 1906, a harmonium was introduced. Today, the music is led by a small one-manual pipe organ, which came from the Norwegian Seamen's Church in Leith, Edinburgh in 1987.

The Constable was the head of the financial administration of the duchy. He was appointed 24 March 1305 and took office on 22 September 1305 until 7 April 1306. He was reappointed on 6 October 1306 until 10 May 1308. He, then, became precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing Returning to Connor diocese, he became rector of Malone from 1986 to 2002 and served as Archdeacon of ConnorHistory of Anglican Diocese of Connor, Anglican.org; accessed 27 July 2017. and Precentor of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, from 1996 to 2002.

The organ, a remarkable instrument that has 64 stops and four manuals, with many other novel and effective features, was installed under the direction of the Rev. Sir Frederick A. Gore Ouseley, Bart., M.A., Mus. Doc., professor of Music in the University of Oxford, and precentor of Hereford cathedral.

The work is traditionally attributed to Symeon of Durham, the precentor of Durham Cathedral. The evidence for this are rubrics in manuscript "Ca" and a rubric in manuscript "H". These date respectively to the late 12th century and to around 1300.Rollason (ed.), Libellus de Exordio, pp. xliii—xliv.

He was canon precentor at the Cathedral Church of St James, Toronto from 1931 to 1936 when he became a lecturer in church history at Moore Theological College, Sydney. He was Bishop Coadjutor of SydneyHymnary from his arrival in Sydney until his death.The Times, 6 July 1961; pg.

He was the son of Kohn Jacob, yeoman, of Cheriton, Kent. He matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford on 27 November 1581 and graduated B.A. in 1583 and M.A. in 1586. His father left him property at Godmersham, near Canterbury. For some time he was precentor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

W. de Wycombe (Wicumbe, and perhaps Whichbury) (late 13th century) was an English composer and copyist of the Medieval era. He was precentor of the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire. It is possible that he was the composer of one the most famous tunes from medieval England, Sumer is icumen in.

He was the son of Sir Patrick Crichton, Laird of Cranstoun. Robert was a younger son and chose an ecclesiastical career. From 1517 he was Provost of St Giles Collegiate Church.Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 357. Additionally, he was Precentor of Dunkeld Cathedral between 1530 and 1534,Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 109.

William Douglas (1769?-1819) was the Archdeacon of Wilts from 1799 until 1804.British History Online He was the son of John Douglas and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Brudenell Rooke, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral from 1804 and Prebendary of Westminster from 1807.

His garden designs included one for the Viscount Harcourt. He entered the Church in 1754, and in 1762 became the precentor and canon of York Minster.precentor He was the friend, executor, and biographer of Thomas Gray, who was a great influence on his own work. In 1775 The Poems of Mr. Gray.

Studi e documenti sul duomo di Saluzzo e su altre chiese nell'antico marchesato, p. 184. As a cathedral, it was staffed by a Cathedral Chapter, which consisted of six dignities (including the Archdeacon, the Archpriest, the Provost, the Cantor, the Precentor and the Treasurer) and twelve additional Canons.Ughelli, p. 1226. Cappelletti, p. 266.

He also added a series of chapters on English music to the English translation of Emil Naumann's History of Music, the subject having been practically ignored in the German treatise. Ouseley died in Hereford, where he had been precentor at Hereford Cathedral since 1855. Probably his most notable student was Sir John Stainer.

Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p779: London, Horace Cox, 1885 He was Rector of St Paul, Cork from 1869 to 1875, and of Holy Trinity, Cork from 1875 to 1878. He became Precentor of Cork in 1874, and Dean in 1878. He died at The Deanery in Cork after a period of ill health.

He was canon and precentor of Béziers, secular Abbot of Saint-Aphrodise in the same city, canon and archdeacon of Corbières, and canon of Aix. He later held the chair of canon law at the University of Bologna, and was appointed chaplain to Pope Celestine V, who in 1294 consecrated him Bishop of Béziers.

Samuel Flood Jones, precentor, (1826-1895); the Chapter Clerk, Mr. Charles St. Clare Bedford (1810-1900); Frederick Bridge, organist 1844-1924 (according to The Times, he composed an anthem for the funeral). The Dean, George Granville Bradley, was not in the country at the time of the funeral hence Canon Prothero was in charge.

George E. DeMille, Pioneer Cathedral: A Brief History of the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, pp. 160, 181-183 (1961). He served three years as Canon Sacrist and two years as Canon Precentor. He was then elected dean of the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany in 1960, and served over two decades, until 1984.

In 1646, during the English Civil War, Lichfield Cathedral was sacked and its library looted. The books and manuscripts were given to Frances, Duchess of Somerset, who returned them in 1672 or 1673. This is probably when the second volume of the Gospels was lost. Precentor William Higgins is credited with saving the remaining volume.

He became Fellow of Clare in 1473. He held livings at Fulbourn, Toppesfield and Wimbush. He was Archdeacon of Taunton from 1505 to 1509; Archdeacon of Norwich from 1509 to 1516; Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral from 1509 to 1510; and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1515 to 1516. from 1517 to 1523.

The 15th century 200px The dean is Stephen Waine. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Westcott House and was formerly the Archdeacon of Dorset from 2010. The precentor is Tim Schofield who was educated at Durham University and Christ's College, Cambridge. He taught music at Exeter School before his ordination.

Adam de Darlington [Derlingtun] (died 1296) was a 13th-century English churchman based in the Kingdom of Scotland. Adam's name occurred for the first time in a Moray document datable between 1255 and 1271, where he was named as the Precentor of Fortrose Cathedral.Innes (ed.), Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, p. 282; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 275.

Benders grew up in Sterrenwijk, Utrecht. Primary school was not easy for Colin; various diagnoses, like ADHD, were made. When he was eight, he switched from his old school to the Kathedrale Koorschool Utrecht, where he got the chance to develop his musical talents. For a long time Kyteman was the precentor of the choir.

Redpath was ordained deacon and priest in 2007. She served her curacy at St Andrew's Brighton and, from 2008–09, was priest in charge of St Aidan's Carrum with St Barnabas' Seaford. From 2010-2018, she served at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, notably as acting precentor (2012-13) and as canon pastor (2014-18).

The Venerable James Treanor was Archdeacon of Tuam from 1898 until 1928. Treanor educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1870.Crockfords 1908 p1441 ([London, Horace Cox, 1908) After a curacy at Tuam he held Incumbencies at Athenry, Kiltullagh, Galway and Ballinrobe. He was Precentor of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam from 1890 until his appointment as Archdeacon.

Leofric Matthew Hay-Dinwoody was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century. He was successively Precentor of Inverness Cathedral,"ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE", The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, 28 July 1900; pg. 2; Issue 5648. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. Rector of Holy Trinity, ElginThe Times, Thursday, 28 September 1905; pg.

He continued as precentor at St. Mark's, however, until 1877. At this time in Anglican and Catholic musical circles, there was a growing interest in plainsong. The sixteenth-century Booke of Common Praier Noted of John Merbecke was republished in 1844. In the same year, Helmore's friend William Dyce brought out his Book of Common Prayer with Plain Song.

John Frederick Augustus Bond was Dean of ConnorDiocesan web site from 2001 until 2016. Born in 1945 he was educated at the Open University and ordained in 1969. After curacies in Lisburn and Finaghy he held incumbencies in BallynureThe Irish Palatine and Skerry. He was Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn from 1998 until his appointment as Dean.

He was born at Dôl Lydan, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, in a farmhouse called "Y Fron". His father, Daniel Davies, was deacon and precentor in the Old Chapel, while his mother, Jane, belonged to a bookish family. He was christened by John Roberts (1767–1834). When he was two years old, his parents moved to Fron in the same parish.

It was during this time that he became a leader of the Evangelical movement in New Zealand. In 1946 he was appointed the first warden of an evangelical conference centre, Tyndale House. He left the following year after disagreement with its founder. He went to ChristChurch Cathedral as acting precentor and took that role in 1949.

The name Benese occurs as the holder of the following benefices and dignities, but whether this represents two or more different persons is uncertain. Evidence linking them is circumstantial. #Clerk in the diocese of Hereford, 1514 #Parson of Woodborough, Sarum diocese 1511 to 1515 #Precentor of Hereford, 11 Nov. 1538 to end of 1546 #Prebendary of Farrendon, Line.

Born on 12 July 1819 in Stockholm, Wilhelmina Fundin was the daughter of the precentor of St Clara's Church, Carl Axel Fundin, and Christina Margaretha Wikström. Her mother managed a boarding home for the students of the Dramatens elevskola in 1837-47.Ingeborg Nordin Hennel: Mod och Försakelse. Livs- och yrkesbetingelser för Konglig Theaterns skådespelerskor 1813–1863.

Briwere was the nephew of William Brewer, a baron and political leader during King Henry III of England's minority.Vincent Peter des Roches p. 213 Nothing else is known of the younger Briwere's family or where he was educated. He owed the office of precentor at Exeter Cathedral to his uncle's influence, receiving that office about 1208.

Timothy Schofield (born 1954) is an English priest of the Church of England . He is the current precentor of Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex. Educated at Durham University and Christ's College, Cambridge, Schofield taught music at Exeter School before his ordination. Before his 2006 appointment to Chichester Cathedral, he ministered in the Exeter and St Albans dioceses.

1 (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1988) , pp. 149-153. The scholaster might be a dignitary in a cathedral or collegiate chapter, alongside the provost, dean, cantor, succentor, precentor, archdeacon, treasurer, cellarer, sacristan or almoner.Anne Walters Robertson, Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 35, 140.

De Winchcombe is shown as rector of St. Lawrence Church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, although the exact date is unknown. He was presented the post of vicar of St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury in December 1312 by Robert de Baldock, Prebendary of Aylesbury. Sometime after 1333 he appears as precentor at St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

The Society was closed down in 1749, but soon after Iversen created a new Collegium Musicum. This new society consisted in part of musicians educated by Iversen. When Iversen was appointed precentor in Vor Frue Kirke, the cathedral of Copenhagen, the concerts by the new society diminished. Iversen himself apparently rarely gave concerts in public after that.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. "Kantorat" In cathedral churches in the Anglican Communion, the precentor or head cantor is a member of the governing chapter, second in rank to the dean. His stall is opposite the dean's and the two sides of the divided choir are accordingly known as "decani" (dean's) and "cantoris" (precentor's).

The normal constitution of the chapter of a secular cathedral church comprised four officers (there might be more), in addition to the canons. These are the dean, the precentor, the chancellor and the treasurer. These four officers, occupying the four corner stalls in the choir, are called in many of the statutes the quatuor majores personae of the church.

He was ordained in 1989.Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) After a curacy at, St Mary, Blyth he was Vicar of St Margaret, Scotswood from 1992 to 2002. He then became Canon Precentor of Derby Cathedral, and was Vicar of Christ Church, Harrogate from 2008 to 2014. He served as acting Archdeacon of Richmond during his final year there.

Cantor-concert in the Vienna 300px A hazzan (;"hazzan". Collins English Dictionary. ) or chazzan ( , plural ; Yiddish khazn; Ladino hassan) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer. In English, this prayer leader is often referred to as a cantor, a term also used in Christianity.

From 1872 to 1876 he was Prebendary of Bubbenhall in Lichfield Cathedral, and in 1875-6 was rector of Tatenhill, Staffordshire. From 1876 he was Canon and Precentor at the cathedral. He married in 1850 Caroline Harriet, daughter of Charles Palmer, 2nd Baronet, of Wanlip Hall, Leicestershire, a talented artist and cousin of the wife of George Selwyn.

He was elected as a fellow on 11 June 1697 and he was ordained in the church of Ireland in 1678. On 14 February 1688–9 he was installed chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was attainted by James II's parliament in the same year. On 4 April 1691 he became dean of Achonry and precentor of Killala.

The term precentor described sometimes an ecclesiastical dignitary, sometimes an administrative or ceremonial officer. Anciently, the precentor had various duties such as being the first or leading chanter, who on Sundays and greater feasts intoned certain antiphons, psalms, hymns, responsories etc.; gave the pitch or tone to the bishop and dean at Mass (the succentor performing a similar office to the canons and clerks); recruited and taught the choir, directed its rehearsals and supervised its official functions; interpreted the rubrics and explained the ceremonies, ordered in a general way the Divine Office and sometimes composed desired hymns, sequences, and lessons of saints. He was variously styled capiscol (from the Latin caput scholæ, head of the choir-school), prior scholæ, magister scholæ, and primicerius (a word of widely different implications).

During his long tenure at the cathedral, he produced ceremonial music and pageants for various occasions, such as the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976 and the consecration of the completed cathedral in 1990, attended by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and other dignitaries. Dirksen was succeeded by Douglas Major as Cathedral Organist and Choirmaster in 1988 and retired as Precentor in 1991.

The Reverend Canon W H Elliott was a Church of England clergyman and Precentor of the Chapels Royal. He was also a broadcaster on religious matters for the BBC, known as "the Radio Chaplain", and vicar of St Michaels church, Chester Square, in London's Belgravia district. He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 26 March 1942.

A parish is usually staffed by at least one priest. Beyond their pastoral activity, a priest may perform other functions, including study, research, teaching or office work. They may also be rectors or chaplains. Other titles or functions held by priests include those of Archimandrite, Canon Secular or Regular, Chancellor, Chorbishop, Confessor, Dean of a Cathedral Chapter, Hieromonk, Prebendary, Precentor, etc.

Therefore, from 2000 to 2012, he was sub-dean and precentor at Southwark Cathedral. On 21 January 2012, he was installed as Dean of Southwark. Since 2008, Nunn has been Rector General of the Society of Catholic Priests. He is Chaplain General of the Company of Servers, an Anglican society for lay people that is connected to the Society of Catholic Priests.

He absolutely hated television. He continued to write articulate letters to friends and neighbours, which show his varied interests. Fred continued preaching even in his nineties and in one of his letters talks about a service he took at Darlington Street and further talks about Synod meeting, where he is the Precentor. He used to end his letters with Warmly yours.

John Bradfield (or John de Bradfield) was a medieval Bishop of Rochester. Bradfield is believed to have come from Bradfield in Berkshire. He was a monk of Rochester Cathedral and precentor of Rochester before he was elected to the see of Rochester in 1278.British History Online Bishops of Rochester accessed on 30 October 2007 He was consecrated on 29 May 1278.

Saint Amabilis of Riom (or Amabilis of Auvergne) (, ) was a French saint. Sidonius Apollinaris brought Amabilis to serve at Clermont.Catholic Encyclopedia: Clermont He served as a cantor in the church of Saint Mary at Clermont and as a precentor at the cathedral of Clermont and then as a parish priest in Riom. He acquired a reputation for holiness in his lifetime.

In 1602 he became a singing man at Chester Cathedral and spent the rest of his life serving the cathedral. He became a minor canon in 1612, took holy orders in 1614 and was named precentor of the cathedral in 1623. Although he was a churchman, Pilkington composed largely secular music—ayres, madrigals, and lute songs. He died in Chester.

He also became Senior Man of Hatfield and President of the Durham Union for Epiphany term of 1903. Mackenzie was ordained in 1905.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967–68 p 787 Oxford: OUP, 1967 He began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at St Mark's Church, Leicester. He was Precentor of Inverness Cathedral from 1911 to 1918 when he became Provost.

The Very Rev. James Henry Leslie Pennell (1906-1996) was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness from 1949 to 1965.Am Baile He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and ordained in 1930 after a period of study at Edinburgh Theological College.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 p 972 Oxford: OUP, 1967 He began his ecclesiastical career as Precentor at Inverness Cathedral.

Aleksandr Kastalsky Alexand(e)r Dmitriyevich Kastalsky () ( – 17 December 1926) was a Russian composer and folklorist. Kastalsky was born in Moscow to protoiereus Dmitri Ivanovich Kastalsky (1820–1891). He studied music theory, composition and the piano at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1887 he started teaching piano at Moscow Synodal School, and in 1891 became assistant precentor of the Moscow Synodal Choir.

Moses Davies (1799 – 6 January 1866) was a Welsh musician and composer. Davies was born in Defynnog, Brecknockshire (now in Powys), but in 1803 his parents moved to Merthyr Tydfil, where he grew up. He was an able singer and took to studying, and later teaching, music. In 1827 he was appointed precentor of the Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Pontmorlais.

Beginning his ministry with a curacy at Bromley, Kent (1909–1912), he was then appointed chaplain and precentor of Christ Church Cathedral and chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford (all 1912–1921); that period was interrupted with World War I service as a temporary chaplain to the Forces during which he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross.

Michael Reniger, D.D. was an English priest in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.National Archives Reniger was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Rabbetts-Rhodes He held livings at Broughton, Crawley and Chilbolton. Reniger was appointed Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral in 1566 (Precentor, 1567/ Subdean, 1568); Archdeacon of Winchester in 1575; and Canon of St. Paul's in 1583.

The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Cwmtirmynach, lies on the B4501, north of Fron-goch. It was built in 1826 and rebuilt in 1880 in the Lombardic/Italian style of the gable-entry type. The folk singer Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin) was precentor at the chapel for nearly 50 years. There is weekly worship and the current minister is Hywel Edwards.

Born in Perth on 15 April 1825, he was son of a weaver who was also precentor of the United Secession Church there. At 16 he was apprenticed to a painter, while also being trained by his father in music, and in 1845 became precentor of the South Kirk, Perth. During 1848 he worked at his trade in Edinburgh and London, and returned to Perth to set up in business. Kennedy then obtained a precentorship in Edinburgh, and in 1859 began there a series of weekly concerts. Short concert tours in Scotland followed in 1860 and 1861, and in 1862 he made his first appearance in London, at the Hanover Square Rooms. Between December 1862 and May 1863 he gave a hundred concerts in the Egyptian Hall; and in 1864 and 1865 he was again in London, singing and reading parts of Waverley.

He was then ordained after a period of study at Salisbury Theological College in 1921.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 He was Curate of St Mary and All Saints, KidderminsterChurch web-site then Sacrist of Gloucester Cathedral. After this he was Precentor of Ely Cathedral from 1923 to 1929 and then Rector of Upwell. During World War II he was a Chaplain in the RNVR.

Edward EdwardsEdward Edwards (1816 - 16 September 1897), also known by his bardic name of "Pencerdd Ceredigion", was a Welsh musician and composer. He was born in Aberystwyth and became a regular churchgoer at Llanbadarn Fawr, joining the choir. When the family moved to Capel Dewi, he was appointed precentor of the local chapel. Later he returned to Aberystwyth, where he worked as a shoemaker.

Swain was vicar of Stanground from 1905 to 1916, followed by a seven-year ministry in the rural parish of Greenford, Middlesex, and ended his church career at Peterborough Cathedral, where he served in a variety of roles including Honorary Canon, Librarian and Precentor. He died in Peterborough on 29 January 1938. A door in Peterborough Cathedral and awards for cathedral choristers are named in his honour.

Yemm was born in Berkshire to a musical family, and began studying piano, organ and singing at age nine. At age 13 or 14 he was appointed chorister under Joseph Barnby, precentor of Eton College. He acted as organist and choirmaster for various churches in England before leaving for Australia. He arrived in South Australia in 1888 and found employment as organist at Christ Church, Kapunda.

The chief officers were the prior, sub-prior, cellarer, precentor, and sacrist. In a double house, the number of canons varied from seven to 30, but at Sempringham they were increased to 40. The lay brothers followed the rule of the Cistercian lay brothers. The nuns of the order kept the rule of Saint Benedict, and followed in every way the customs of the canons.

J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 McKinley was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1913. After a curacy in Tipperary he was the incumbent at Kilcooly with Ballingary and then Templemore. He was Rural Dean of Thurles from 1941 until 1950; Treasurer of Cashel Cathedral from 1942 to 1947; Prebendary of Fennor in Cashel Cathedral from 1949, and its Precentor from 1949 to 1950.

Christ Church has a long musical history, with a well- known cathedral choir and a girls' choir. Along with the precentor, the musical side of its work is led by the "Organist and Director of Music", working with any assistant organist and organ scholar, as well as the "Honorary Keeper of the Music and Music Librarian" and, as at 2007, a "Music Development Officer".

Who was Who 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Lear made four appearances in first-class cricket in 1843 and 1844, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Oxford University. He was ordained in 1847 and served first as a curate at Bishopstone. He became its Vicar in 1850 and Rural Dean of Chalke in 1852. From 1864 to 1875 he was Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral.

In 1887 Kastal'sky began teaching piano at the Synodal School, in 1891 he became assistant precentor of the Synodal choir then in 1910 director.Svetlana Georgievna Zvereva Alexander Kastalsky: his life and music In 1910 the Moscow Synodal Choir celebrated its bicentennial under the conductor Nikolai Danilin (Николай Михайлович Данилин, 1878–1945) conducting the first performance of Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Op.31.

Elizabeth Norton, 2013. The Boleyn Women, Amberley Publishing He served as rector of Hackford, Norwich 1436–7, rector of Chelsea 1442, prebendary of Hereford 1441–7, prebendary of St Paulas 1447–51 and sub- dean (1450) then precentor (1451-1472) of Wells Cathedral.Julia Keld, Thomas Boleyn, www.findagrave.com, 19 Aug 2007, #21018412 Boleyn was also Master of the College of All Saints, Maidstone in 1458.

Chapter House of Oulu Cathedral, Finland The normal constitution of the chapter of a secular cathedral church comprised four dignitaries (there might be more), in addition to the canons. These are the dean, the precentor, the chancellor and the treasurer. These four dignitaries, occupying the four corner stalls in the choir, are called in many of the statutes the quatuor majores personae of the church.

The Cathedral of Saint- Étienne de Cahors was served by a Chapter composed of fourteen individuals. The Bishop was considered a member of the Chapter, as were the Archdeacons of Cahors and Tournus; in addition there was a Precentor and a Treasurer, as well as nine other Canons. In addition there were four hebdomadarii, fourteen prebendaries, and twelve chaplains.Gallia christiana I, pp. 115-117.

V.H. Fenwick, 'The mysterious mill and some Domesday anomalies resolved', Orford and District Local History Bulletin 22 (Spring 2014), pp. 1-9 (Butley Research Group pdf). See also V.H. Fenwick, 'Mapping Domesday', Orford and District Local History Bulletin, 28 (Spring 2017), pp. 5-10. Ranulf founded the house in 1171 for 36 canons under a prior, for whom he selected Gilbert, formerly a precentor at Blythburgh Priory.

On weekdays the structure was used for the primary schooling of the children. On 24 April 1934 the parish feast was celebrated for the first time. Fr. Julian D'Souza presided over the mass, while the sermon was given by Fr. Denis Lewis. In October of subsequent years a caucus used to take place for the discussions on the parish feast and to decide its precentor.

Towards the end of Richard I's reign, Peter became Lord Chamberlain and an influential counsellor. He held the ecclesiastical offices of Archdeacon of Poitiers, treasurer of Poitiers, and was a precentor of the diocese of Lincoln in 1204.British History Online Precentors of Lincoln accessed on 2 November 2007 In early 1205, through John's influence, Peter was elected to the see of Winchester.Fryde, et al.

He himself received the rectory of Strathfieldsaye in 1627, and after the death of William Cox in 1632 was made precentor of Chichester. He received the rectory of Bletchington, Oxfordshire, in 1631. During Laud's chancellorship of the university, Potter was a frequent correspondent. He was a disciplinarian in his college, and instituted expositions of the creed on Sundays in chapel and English sermons on Thursdays.

D. Murray, "Religious life: 1650–1750" in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), , pp. 513–4. From the late seventeenth century the common practice was lining out, by which the precentor sang or read out each line and it was then repeated by the congregation. The seventeenth century saw the high-water mark of kirk discipline.

Turner English Judiciary p. 79 Foliot had a brother William, who was precentor of the Hereford cathedral chapter. Foliot left 20 books to Hereford Cathedral on his death, including glosses on the Bible, Honorius of Autun's Gemma Animae, and Peter Lombard's Sentences. Foliot also was friends with the writer and ecclesiastic Gerald of Wales, who wrote a letter of condolence to William Foliot after Ralph's death.

He was Vicar of St John the Baptist, Cardiff from 1946 to 1961; Canon and Precentor of Llandaff Cathedral during the same period; and Rural Dean of Cardiff from 1954 until his appointment as Archdeacon.'HUGHES, Rt. Rev Thomas Maurice', Who's Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012..

Arthur Aston Luce (21 August 1882 - 28 June 1977) was professor of philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and also Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1952–1973). Luce held many clerical appointments, including Vice- Provost of Trinity from 1946 to 1952. He was widely known as an authority on the philosopher George Berkeley. His fellowship of Trinity College from 1912 to 1977 is a record.

Henry emerges for the first time - as Precentor of Aberdeen Cathedral - when his name occurs in a document dated to 22 January 1277.Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 9. Despite the fact he was only a deacon, after the death of the former bishop, Hugh de Benin, the chapter unanimously elected le Chen to be the new Bishop of Aberdeen.Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, p. 108.

There is only one known Dean of Christianty (sic.) (rural dean), one Donald Reid called the dean of christianty of Dingwall on 12 June 1530. A dean of the cathedral chapter (Henry) is first recorded in 1212 x 1213; a Subdean (William de Balvin) in 1356. A Precentor, sometimes in Scotland called Chanter, (Adam de Darlington) is attested in 1255, a Succentor (Matthew) in 1255.

Darlington travelled to the papal curia, but on or before 18 November, resigned his right to Dundee. He did however obtain a bishopric, becoming Bishop of Caithness. On 26 April 1296, as Precentor of Ross he was provided to the Caithness diocese, vacant since the death of Alan de St Edmund in 1291, and consecrated by Hugh Aycelin, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia.Dowden, Bishops, p.

From the surname "haḤazzan", given him by Isaac Israeli ben Joseph ("Yesod'Olam," iv. 30), it may be inferred that he was precentor at the synagogue. Isaac ibn Sid took a leading part in the compilation of the Alfonsine Tables. Isaac Israeli (ib.) states that he saw recorded in Isaac ibn Sid's own handwriting three observations of moon eclipses made by him at the order of Alfonso.

From 1987 to 1995 he was Vice Provost, a Canon Residentiary and Precentor at Coventry Cathedral."Coventry Cathedral" Sadgrove,M: Andover, Pitkin, 1991 Between 1995 and 2003, he was Provost, then Dean from 13 April 2000, of Sheffield Cathedral. In October 2002, it was announced that he would be moving to Durham Cathedral as their new dean. He was installed as Dean of Durham in March 2003.

St David's Cathedral Houghton gained the office of precentor in St David's Cathedral,William Latham Bevan, St. David's (1888), p. 135 to which he was admitted on 26 December 1339. In June 1344, Houghton and Geoffrey Scrope were in dispute with the university of Oxford over elections. He resigned as precentor about 1350, and had become a king's clerk by 1352. On 18 July 1355 he was admitted as an advocate at the Court of Arches. In 1360 and 1361 he was in France on business for King Edward III. On 20 September 1361 Pope Innocent VI provided him to be Bishop of St David's, and he was consecrated a bishop by William Evendon, bishop of Winchester, at St Mary's, Southwark. Houghton received possession of the temporalities of St David's on 8 December 1361 and was consecrated to the diocese on 2 January 1361/62.

As with most Church of England cathedrals, the priest in charge of the building and its ministry is called the Dean (John Paddock retired in November 2017).Diocese in Europe — Prayer Diary (Accessed 7 January 2018) The Canon Theologian and acting Dean is Robin Gill.Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar — Clergy (Accessed 7 January 2018) Adrian Mumford is the honorary Lay Canon Precentor. The Bishop in Europe is based in Brussels.

The chief authority is the Vita Lanfranci by the monk Milo Crispin, who was precentor at Bec and died in 1149. Milo drew largely upon the Vita Herluini, composed by Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster. The Chronicon Beccensis abbatiae, a 14th-century compilation, should also be consulted. The first edition of these two sources, and of Lanfranc's writings, is that of L. d'Achery, Beati Lanfranci opera omnia (Paris, 1648).

143 [original edition (Paris 1693), p. 658]. Jan Rogozinski, "Ennoblement by the Crown and Social Stratification in France, 1285–1322: A Prosopographical Survey," in: Another brother, Guillaume, became Precentor of the Cathedral Chapter of Lectoure, and then, in 1311 Bishop of Lectoure.Eubel, p. 299. A Bernardus de Borda, who may have been Bertrand des Bordes' nephew, is recorded as an Ostiarius Domini Nostri Papae at Avignon in 1327.

Agde is in the south of France, in what is now the department of Hérault. The last bishop, Charles François de Rouvroy de Saint Simon Sandricourt, was guillotined in Paris on July 25, 1794. The diocesan seat was the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, originally dedicated to Saint Andrew. The cathedral was served by a Chapter, consisting of twelve Canons, including the Archdeacon, the Sacristan, the Precentor and the Treasurer.

Michael Ramsey, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury, was vicar in 1938. Brothers of the Society of Saint Francis (among them Br Michael (Fisher)) served at St Bene't's from 1945 until 2005. The Revd Angela Tilby, a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, was vicar, 2007–11. From September 2012, the vicar has been the Revd Canon Anna Matthews, previously precentor of St Alban's Cathedral.

John Foxe comments very severely on Young's conduct. On Queen Mary's accession Young was one of the six who, in convocation in 1553, publicly avowed his adherence to the Reformation and resigned his preferments. He was a Marian exile in Germany. His successor, Morgan Phillips, fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, was collated precentor on 31 May 1554. On the accession of Elizabeth, Phillips was deprived (1559) and Young was restored.

Thomas Henry Davis was born on 25 September 1867 in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. In 1892 he became curate at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, moving to Wells Cathedral in 1895 as priest vicar. In 1912 he was appointed a prebendary of the cathedral and became precentor and canon residentiary in 1920. He remained in this post until his death in Wells in October 1947.

Later in World War I he was a Temporary Chaplain of the Forces over 1918–19. He held several positions at Lichfield Cathedral as Proctor in Convocation (1932–35), Treasurer (1935–36), Canon (1935–44) and Precentor (1936-44). He was consecrated Bishop Suffragan of Shrewsbury at St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 29 September 1944. During his episcopate he concurrently served as Provost of Denstone College from 1949.

Thomas James McEndoo was Dean of Armagh from 1938 to 1955.St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh Hamilton was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was ordained in 1888. After a curacy in Ballymore, he held incumbencies at Donaghendry and Drumglass.Belfast Gazette He was Prebendary of Mullaghbrack in Armagh Cathedral from 1915 to 1925; Treasurer from 1925 to 1927 and Precentor from 1927 Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 p827: London, OUP, 1929 to 1938.

Alexander Colles Nevill (1912–2003) was the Archdeacon of Ossory and Leighlin from 1951 until 1962. Nevill was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1911. He began his career with a curacy at Athy. He was the Incumbent at Nurney, County Carlow from 1922; a prebendary at St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny from 1940 to 1951; and Precentor of St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin from 1947 to 1951.

Holdsworth was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church as a deacon on 4 July 1997 St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth. He was ordained as a priest on 9 June 1998. From 1997 to 2000, he served his curacy as the precentor of St Ninian's Cathedral. From 2000 to 2006, Holdsworth was Rector of St Saviour's Church, Bridge of Allan, Stirling, in the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Next to the dean (as a rule) is the precentor (primicerius, cantor, etc.), whose special duty is that of regulating the musical portion of the services. Precentors preside in the dean's absence and occupy the corresponding stall on the left side, although there are exceptions to this rule, where, as at St Paul's Cathedral, London, the archdeacon of the cathedral city ranks second and occupies what is usually the precentor's stall.

He then held incumbencies at Penrhiwceiber and Haseley. Following this he was Director of Music and Lecturer in Hebrew at Ripon College Cuddesdon. From 1956 to 1961 he was Precentor of Southwark CathedralCrockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 and then VicarThe Times, Wednesday, 21 Jun 1961; pg. 14; Issue 55113; col A Court Circular of Leeds Parish ChurchChurch details until his appointment as dean.

Lucy Clare Winkett (born 8 January 1968) is a British Anglican priest, who since 2010 has been the Rector of St James's Church, Piccadilly. Her early ordained ministry was spent at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where she was a minor canon and chaplain from 1997 to 2003, and the canon precentor from 2003 to 2010. She was the first female priest to join the clergy of St Paul's Cathedral.

She was also reportedly spat at by members of the clergy at St Paul's.Profile by Mary Ann Sieghart, BBC Profile April 2013 In 2003, she was appointed precentor and a canon residentiary of St Paul's. She returned to parish ministry when she was appointed Rector of St James's Church, Piccadilly in October 2010. Winkett writes, speaks and debates on a wide range of issues reflecting on culture, gender and religion.

John Gibson was an English priest in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.British History On-line Gibson educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1570: he was a Fellow there from 1571 to 1583.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Gabel-Gilmore He was appointed a Canon of York in 1571 and Precentor in 1574. He was Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1578 until his death on 28 February 1613.

In 1985, he made his vows, thereby becoming a monk and a full member of the Community of the Resurrection. Since 1985, he has been the precentor of the community. In 2011, he was also appointed principal of the College of the Resurrection, an Anglo-Catholic theological college that is associated with the Community of the Resurrection. He is also a lecturer in moral theology and liturgical music at the college.

Haggart was ordained in 1941. He began his career with curacies at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow and St Mary's Hendon.Crockford's Clerical Directory1947–48 Oxford, OUP, 1948 He was Precentor at St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth from 1948 to 1951. After this he was Rector of St Oswald's, King's Park, Glasgow ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark and then Acting Priest-in-Charge of St Martin's, Glasgow.

William Rae (died 1376) was a 14th-century bishop of Glasgow. His background is obscure, although it is known that before ascending to the bishopric he was a precentor of the diocese of Glasgow. On the death of John Wishart in 1338, William was elected to the see. His election was confirmed by Pope Benedict XII, who on 11 February 1339 ordered Annibald de Ceccano, bishop of Tusculum, to consecrate William.

Hugh McIntosh was Provost St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow. of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow"Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark from 1966 until 1970. He was born on 5 June 1914 and educated at the University of Durham.“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 He was ordained in 1942 and began his career as the Precentor at St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee.

In Yemen (as also in Israel), the all-male social-gathering always takes place around set tables, on which a variety of dainties have been laid up, with beverages (never actually solid foodstuffs), and traditionally opens with a nashīd. The first to perform this is the most distinguished of the guests at the social-gathering, usually the rabbi, even if he were not a man with a pleasant voice, neither an expert in terms of musical performance, seeing that the music of the nashīd is simple, similar to the music of liturgical poems (piyyutim) recited in the synagogues, expressing longing and emotion. After he commences with the nashīd, the performance passes unto a more experienced man in the congregation, known for his musical talents and who is called by the Hebrew word, meshorer (precentor; singer of poetry, usually one with a natural forte for singing). The precentor sings the first hemistich of the stanza, while another person, or the entire congregation, answers after him in concert.

Arthur Gordon was Dean of Ross from 1968 to 1978.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–82 p386 London, OUP, 1983 Arthur Gordon was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; and ordained in 1942. After a curacy in Kinsale he held incumbencies at Kilmeen (1943–47); Carrigaline, (1947–62); and Clonmel, (1962–78). He was precentor of Ross Cathedral from 1964 to 1967; and chancellor of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross from 1976 to 1978.

The Venerable Rupert Gustavus Musgrave Harris was Archdeacon of Tuam from 1970 until 1980. Harris was born in 1913, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1938.Crockfords 1980-82 p435 (London, OUP, 1983) After a curacy at Shankhill he was a chaplain to the Forces during World War II. He held Incumbencies at Cloone, Castlebar, Galway and Athenry. He was Precentor of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam from 1960 until his appointment as Archdeacon.

In 1615 he took the degree of D.D.; on 16 February 1618 he was made precentor of St. Paul's Cathedral, and in 1618 he was presented by Abbot to the rectory of Hadleigh, Suffolk. He also held the rectory of Black Notley, Essex, and probably that of Merstham, Surrey. In 1619 the king, at the instance, it is said, of Abbot, sent him out to replace the ill Joseph Hall at the Synod of Dort.

Samuel Hobart Taylor Dorman"Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 1)" Fox-Davies,A.C. Edinburgh : T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1905 was Archdeacon of Cloyne from 1936 until 1951. Dorman was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1889.Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 p 366 Oxford, OUP,1947 After curacies at Youghal and Knockmourne he was the incumbent at Mogeely from 1892; and Precentor of Cloyne Cathedral from 1936.

It was renamed the Cathedral of Saint Louis. With a new cathedral, a new Cathedral Chapter was required. The canons of the Collegiate Church of Saint Salvator, whose church had been sacked and destroyed by the Huguenots in the previous century and only gradually rebuilt, were transferred to the new Cathedral of Saint Louis. The dignities were the Dean, the Precentor, the Subdean, the Provost, the Treasurer and the Prior of S. Solenne.

The Venerable William Higgins was an Anglican priest in England during the 17th Century."Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early Stuart Church, Volume 2" Church of England Record Society p248:Woodbridge; Boydell; 1998 : Higdgins was born in London and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Hieron-Horridge He held livings at Henstridge, Almondbury, Cheselbourne and Stoke on Tern. He was Canon of Lichfield Cathedral in 1633, and Precentor in 1636.

Whilst serving as cathedral Precentor, Bates was concurrently the Diocesan Director of Ordinands for Liverpool Diocese.‘BATES, Rt Rev. Gordon’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 8 July 2012 From 1983 he was the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby,Crockfords, (London, Church House 1995) a post he held for 16 years. He retired to Carnforth and is now an honorary assistant bishop within the Carlisle diocese.

The senior priest of a Scottish Episcopal cathedral is styled as provost (as the title of "dean" is given to the senior priest of the diocese as a whole, see above). The only exception in Scotland is the Cathedral of the Isles on the island of Great Cumbrae which has been led by a member of the clergy styled as Precentor. Diocesan deans and cathedral provosts are both addressed as Very Reverend.

David Trimnel, D.D. (b Abbots Ripton 15 September 1675 - d Stoke Hammond 18 May 1756) was an English priest in the 18th-century."The Political State of Great Britain, Volume 35" p163: London; M.Boyer; 1728 Trimnel was educated at New College, Oxford. He was Rector of Nuneham Courtney from 1660. He was appointed Archdeacon of Leicester in 1715 and Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral in 1718,CCEd holding both posts until his death.

Henry Ramsden Bramley was born on 4 June 1833 at Addingham in Yorkshire.Birthdate, ccel.org, retrieved 15 November 2014 He studied at Oriel College, Oxford (1852), and was later made a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1857. He was ordained as a deacon in 1856, and priest in 1858. He served as Vicar of Horspath in Oxfordshire between 1861 and 1889, and was later Canon and Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral between 1895-1905.

In 1641 he went to Gold Coast and had an affair with a local woman. Back in Holland he became precentor in Zaandam, and in November 1649 he married Sara Abrahams Roschou in Amsterdam. Steendam published a 3-volume poetry collection, Den Distelvink ("The Goldfinch") in 1649/1650 in that city. Jacob and Sara sailed to the colony of New Amsterdam about 1650, and stayed there till 1662, when they returned to Holland.

He was appointed Archdeacon of Ossory in 1772, holding the position"A Sermon (Psalm iv. 6) preached before Charles, Marquis Cornwallis, president and the members of the Association for discountenancing vice, and promoting the practice of religion and virtue" Miller G p55: Dublin; William Watson; 1799 until his death. Palmer was also Precentor of Lismore Cathedral from 1782 to 1797."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H.

27 It was not until late in his bishopric that the diocese was split into multiple archdeaconries, which appears to have happened in 1133.Barlow English Church p. 49 Warelwast instituted the two offices of treasurer and precentor for the cathedral chapter, as well as the first sub-archdeacons, who were under the archdeacons. Sub-archdeacons are not attested again at Exeter until the episcopate of Bartholomew Iscanus, who was bishop from 1161 to 1184.

The copy is now in the British Library.. Correct in 1953, but it will be in the British Library now. The mediaeval library was located in different parts of the cathedral and precincts at different times. The precentor was in charge of it and also responsible for providing the materials needed to enable copyists, illuminators and authors' work. Because all copying was by hand and taught locally, monasteries varied in their style.

Both Thomas and Antony were educated at Oxford University, where they studied from 1267 to 1270. Having entered the clergy, Bek received several benefices and soon attracted the attention of the Lord Edward, the heir of King Henry III of England. He was Archdeacon of Durham by 1275, as well as precentor of York and held prebends at Lichfield, London, and Wells.Greenway "Archdeacons of Durham diocese: Durham" Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300 pp.

He was ordained in 1914 and was a chaplain during World War I with the British Armed Forces. After this he became the Precentor of Sheffield Cathedral and then Rector of Bradfield. From 1924 to 1928 he was Rector of St Chrysostom's Victoria Park, Manchester and then began a long association with the Lancaster area.lancaster Priory time-line He was Vicar for eight years and, in his last years there, an archdeacon.

Walter I (died c. 1199) was a 12th-century Augustinian Anglo-Norman prelate active in the kingdom of Scotland. A canon of St Andrews Cathedral Priory (in Fife), he was precentor of the cathedral when he became prior of St Andrews in 1160.Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 187 Walter Bower, our principal source for Walter, says that he served as prior for 24 years before resigning on grounds of ill-health.

Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 59, 151; Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 103 His third brother, Robert de Crannach, was precentor of Brechin from 1440 to sometime between 1453 and 1457, as well as dean of Dunblane (1430-1439 or 1440).Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 62, 107 His uncle, Adam de Crannach (also "de Aberdeen"), was also a prominent Augustistian, serving as abbot of Scone between 1418 and 1432.

It would be five more years before Crowdy represented the county again, in the 1882 season against the Marylebone Cricket Club. Crowdy's final first- class appearance came in the 1884 season against Surrey. He was also an ordained priest in the Church of England. He was appointed Minor Canon of Winchester Cathedral in 1872, Precentor of Winchester Cathedral 1879-1890, Rector of Sherfield on Loddon 1890-1912, Rural Dean of Silchester 1904-1912.

William Arnald, his son, was fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1767, and head-tutor in 1768. He became chaplain to Bishop Hurd in 1775, and precentor of Lichfield Cathedral. By Hurd's influence he was appointed in 1776 preceptor to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, and was made canon of Windsor. In January 1782 signs of insanity appeared, and he continued insane till his death on 5 August 1802.

In 1481 Count Lodovico II prevailed upon Pope Sixtus IV to establish the church as a Collegiate Church, headed by a Dean and six dignities (Archdeacon, Provost, Archpriest, Cantor, Precentor, Treasurer), with twelve Canons.Savio, Saluzzo e i suoi vescovi, pp. 53-60. The canonical establishment of the Collegiate Church was carried out by Cardinal Domenico della Rovere on 21 January 1483.Domenico Chiattone, in: Savio, Carlo Fedele; Patrucco, C.; Durando E. and Chattone, D. (1901).

Saint Osmond Osmund's work was threefold — first, the building of the cathedral at Old Sarum, which was consecrated on 5 April 1092. Five days afterwards a thunderstorm entirely destroyed the roof and greatly damaged the whole fabric. Second was the constitution of a cathedral body. This was framed on the usual Norman model, with dean, precentor, chancellor, and treasurer, whose duties were exactly defined, some thirty-two canons, a subdean, and succentor.

Rosser Beynon (1811 - 3 January 1876) was a Welsh musician. He was born in the Vale of Neath, Glamorganshire, shortly before his family moved to Merthyr Tydfil where for a few years he attended George Williams' school. At eight years of age, he left school and began work in a local iron-works. From a young age he attended the Soar Congregational Chapel, where he became a precentor in 1835 and ran a music class.

Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 354. Ingram was in possession of the church of "Kynnore" (Kinnoir), a Moray prebend, by 1430, and possessed a canonry and prebend in the diocese of Brechin and a vicarage in the diocese of Glasgow when he was made Precentor of Elgin Cathedral in 1431, a position he held until 1441.Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 223. He had also briefly been Chancellor of Moray between 1430 and 1431.

From 1987 to 1996 he was a chaplain to Elizabeth II. In 1989 he became a canon residentiary and the Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral, London. Prior to his current appointment, he had been the area Bishop of Stafford in the Diocese of Lichfield from 1996. Hill has been continuously involved in ecumenical affairs throughout his ministry. From 1974 to 1981 he was Co-Secretary of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.

The chapel choir is made up of boys from the school, and is directed by the Precentor and Director of Music, Tim Johnson. Up to 75% of the choir are former members of various cathedral and collegiate choirs, and many have been admitted under the school's Music Scholarship scheme. Many continue their singing careers as choral scholars at Oxford or Cambridge. Formerly there was a "professional" choir whose trebles attended the Choir School.

Harris was ordained a deacon in 1913 and a priest in 1914. After first being curate in Ystradgynlais in the Swansea Valley, he moved to Christ Church, Swansea, in 1917 and then to All Saints, Oystermouth, Swansea, in the following year. In 1919 he took the post of lecturer in theology at St David's College, Lampeter. He was also Precentor of St David's Cathedral (1933), becoming a canon of the cathedral in 1937.

The house was surrendered to the Crown on 26 May 1547 and William Cliffe, the last of the medieval Treasurers, was made dean of Chester. The first post-Reformation owner was Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. He was given the house in 1547 by Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII. The Sterne Room was built in mid 18th century for Jaques Sterne, Precentor and Canon Residentiary of the Minster and uncle of Laurence Sterne.

Retrieved: 2016-07-22. Its seat was at Cavaillon, in the south-eastern part of what is now France, in the modern department of Vaucluse. The Cathedral was officially dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Nôtre Dame), but popularly honored Saint Veranus, the sixth-century bishop of Cavaillon. In 1202 the Cathedral had a Chapter composed of a Provost, a Precentor, and a Sacristan, to which were added the Archdeacon and 12 Canons.

Smith was navy chaplain to Admiral Henry, earl of Holland and domestic chaplain to Thomas, earl of Cleveland. He was also rector of Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire in 1634 and of Kings Nympton, Devon from 1639 to 1662. He was collated archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1660 (until 1662), resigning to become precentor of Exeter cathedral and a canon of Exeter in 1662. He had been granted the title Doctor of Divinity in 1661.

Friderich Christian Hager (9 February 1756 – August 17, 1795) was a Danish colonial commander and governor. Born in Ribe, Hager was the son of the then organist at Ribe Domkirke, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Hager (1728–1799), and his wife Anna Margrethe Ingwersen (1736–1759). Hager's father later became precentor in Copenhagen and then newspaper publisher in Flensburg and Altona. F.C. Hager went to Africa in 1774 to work for the Danish Guinesian Company.

11 He then took up a post as a master at Bradfield College and moved in 1892 to a similar position at Rugby School. He was ordained priest in 1895. In 1899 he returned to Queen's as a fellow, assistant tutor, precentor and junior bursar. In 1901 he had his first contact with the Diocese of Liverpool, being appointed examining chaplain to Francis Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool, which post he combined with his Oxford duties.

Manuel Cardoso (baptized 11 December 1566 - 24 November 1650) was a Portuguese composer and organist. With Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony. Cardoso is not known to be related to an older contemporary composer of the same name; the precentor Manuel Cardoso, who published a book of Latin passions in Leiria in 1575. Cardoso was born in Fronteira, near Portalegre, most likely in 1566.

William Morgan O'Connell was Archdeacon of Tuam from 1928 until 1939. O'Connell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1892.Crockfords 1929/30 p958 (London), OUP, 1929 After a curacy at Drumshambo he was the incumbent at Drumreilly, Aasleagh, Clifden and Omey. He was Rural Dean of Galway from 1907 to 1916; Prebendary of Kilmainmore in Tuam Cathedral Galway from 1925; and Precentor of Tuam from 1925 to 1928 and Rural Dean of Tuam from 1944.

Gallia christiana XIII, pp. 299-300. The Pope also made the church of Castelnaudary into a Collegiate Church of twelve Canons, with a Dean, a Sacristan, a Precentor; there were also to be three hebdomidary priests, 24 chaplains, two deacons and two subdeacons, as well as six clerics in minor orders.Gallia christiana XIII, Instrumenta, p. 256-259. In 1716, there were approximately 1,000 faithful Catholics in the town of Saint-Papuli, and the diocese contained forty-four parishes.

Common practice was lining out, by which the precentor sang or read out each line and it was then repeated by the congregation. New practices were introduced and the repertory was expanded. In the second half of the eighteenth century these innovations became linked to a choir movement that included the setting up of schools to teach new tunes and singing in four parts. Published paraphrases of passages of the Bible were adopted in many parishes.

Bonney was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1985 and as a priest in 1986. From 1985 to 1988, he served his curacy at St Peter's Church, Stockton-on-Tees. He then joined St Alban's Abbey, where he was the chaplain from 1988 to 1990 and served as precentor from 1990 to 1992. He was vicar of the Church of St Mary, Eaton Bray (the parish of Eaton Bray with Edlesborough) from 1992 to 1996.

Milles became Precentor of Exeter in 1747 and in June 1762 Dean of Exeter, in succession to Dr Charles Lyttelton (1714–1768), who had been elected in 1762 Bishop of Carlisle. Lyttelton was President of the Society of Antiquaries, and had started a period of renovation of the fabric of Exeter Cathedral. Milles continued the work with great vigour. He succeeded Lyttelton also as President of the Society of Antiquaries from 1768 until his death on 13 February 1784.

Music is an important part of cathedral services. Choir practice at York Minster, England. Apart from its organisational function as the seat of the bishop, and the meeting place for the chapter of the diocese, the cathedral has a liturgical function in offering daily church services. Most cathedrals have at least three services of worship every day, often taking the form of matins, Holy Communion and an evening service which is often sung by the precentor and choir.

Benedict was from Sawston in Cambridgeshire.British History Online Bishops of Rochester accessed on 30 October 2007 He was a canon of the diocese of London from 1196 and held the prebend of Neseden.British History Online Prebendaries of Nesden accessed on 30 October 2007 From 1204 he was precentor of St Paul's, London.British History Online Precentors of London accessed on 30 October 2007 He was elected to the see of Rochester on 13 December 1214Fryde, et al.

Canterbury Cathedral houses the well-known cadaver monument to Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1443) and in Exeter Cathedral survives the 16th-century monument and chantry chapel of Precentor Sylke, inscribed in Latin: 'I am what you will be, and I was what you are. Pray for me I beseech you'. Winchester Cathedral has two cadaver monuments. The cadaver monument traditionally identified as that of John Wakeman, Abbot of Tewkesbury from 1531 to 1539, survives in Tewkesbury Abbey.

He attended St Alban's Hall, Oxford, where he obtained a BA degree in 1602, then Lincoln College, Oxford'Covert-Cutts', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 338-365. where he received a M.A. on 24 April 1605. He served as Rector of Trim from 1619, and in 1615 was appointed a Prebendary of Malahidert (in St. Patrick's), in 1624 as Precentor of Kilkenny and in 1624 Rector of Rathmore in the diocese of Meath.

Ordained in 1882 Rivers began his career with a curacy in Painswick. Emigrating to Australia he was Precentor of Sydney Cathedral and Chaplain to the Primate of Australia. Moving to Queensland he was Rector of St Michael, Brisbane and then St Andrew in the same city. He was Archdeacon of Burnett and Wide Bay from 1896 to 1905; and of Toowoomba from thenCrockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30: Oxford, OUP, 1929 until his appointment as Dean of Hobert.

Grevile Marais Livett, a longtime precentor of the cathedral and later vicar of Wateringbury, authored several books and monographs on the Norman churches of England as well as contributing extensively to Archaeologia Cantiana, the journal of the Kent Archaeology Society. (Livett's name was a variant of Levett, an old Sussex and Kentish family.) The author Charles Dickens had wished to be buried in the churchyard at Rochester Cathedral. Instead, his body was interred at Poet's Corner inside Westminster Abbey.

In January 1918 he succeeded Rev. Rupert P. A. Hewgill as rector of St. John's (Anglican) Church, Adelaide. An interesting history of St. John's He started a day school in May 1918, which prospered, and by his enthusiasm and example helped build up the men's group. He was appointed precentor of St. Peter's Cathedral and bishop's vicar in September 1927 in succession to Dr. W. Somerville Milne and was succeeded at St. John's by the Rev.

Chichester Cathedral. The Dean of Chichester is the dean of Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England. Bishop Ralph is credited with the foundation of the current cathedral after the original structure that had been built by Stigand was largely destroyed by fire in 1114.Stephens. Memorials. p. 47 Ralph did not confine his activities just to rebuilding the cathedral; he provided for a more complete constitution of his chapter by also creating the offices of Dean, Precentor, Chancellor and Treasurer.Stephens.

Ford was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1979 and as a priest in 1980. He began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Forest Hill after which he was Vicar of St Augustine's Lee and then domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Horsham. From 1994 to 2000, he served as diocesan missioner for the Diocese of Chichester. From 2000 to 2005, he was a residentiary canon and precentor of Chichester Cathedral.

Around 1158 de Lacy surrendered his lands to his eldest son Robert when the elder de Lacy became a member of the Knights Templar. He then travelled through France to Jerusalem, where de Lacy became precentor of the Templars in the County of Tripoli. In 1163, de Lacy was one of the crusader army commanders fighting against Nur ad-Din. De Lacy's year of death is unknown, but he was commemorated on 20 November at Hereford Cathedral.

Bethke did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, he followed that up with a master's degree in sacred music from the American Southern Methodist University. He later completed a doctoral degree at his alma mater, UCT. Bethke was a trainee conductor at the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. Bethke is the director of music and precentor at the St. Michael and St. George Cathedral in Grahamstown as well as being the conductor of the Rhodes University Chamber Choir.

Svanholm began his musical career at the age of 17 as a precentor, elementary school teacher, and organist. He then studied at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm as well as taking singing lessons from the famous baritone John Forsell, who also taught Aksel Schiøtz and Jussi Björling.Svanholm Singers He made his operatic debut as a baritone (Stockholm, 1930), singing the role of Silvio in Pagliacci. He sang as a baritone for several years.

He seems to have been introduced into the diocese of Ross, along with others from the north-east of England, by Bishop Robert de Fyvie, who may have been descended from the area.Watt, Dictionary, p. 208. After the death of Bishop Robert, sometime between 17 November 1292 and 18 November 1295, two elections were conducted by the cathedral chapter of Ross: one elected Precentor Adam and the other elected Thomas de Dundee.Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 267.

Burton actively campaigned for the Tory interest in the elections of 1741, further incurring the hostility of Sterne, now Precentor of York Minster, and his nephew and political assistant, Laurence Sterne. Burton's position was financially improved in 1743, when he inherited substantial estates on the deaths of his father and mother-in-law. Two years later he suffered a setback from which his reputation and his pocket never fully recovered. The occasion was the Jacobite rising of 1745.

Galfredus, Galfred or Geoffrey de Liberatione was Bishop of Dunkeld and Bishop-postulate of St Andrews. He was a clerk to King Alexander II of Scotland as early as 1219, as well as being a canon of Dunkeld and precentor of Glasgow. He was elected to the bishopric of Dunkeld in 1236. After an investigation by Pope Gregory IX regarding a defect of birth possessed by Galfred, he was confirmed as bishop in sometime in 1237.

He was Donnellan Lecturer in 1838 and 1839, publishing works related to the Antichrist in which he opposed the views of the more extreme of his co- religionists who applied this term to the Roman Catholicism and the Pope. In 1840 he graduated Doctor of Divinity. In 1837 he had been installed Treasurer at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, and would become Precentor in 1864. His style of preaching was described as simple and lucid, and his sermons interesting.

In 1438 he graduated bachelor of canon law from Broadgates Hall, Oxford, and on 11 April 1443 was collated to the prebend of Wildland in St Paul's Cathedral. He resigned his prebend on his election on 14 May 1446 as precentor of Salisbury Cathedral. In 1452 he went on a mission to Rome to obtain the canonisation of Osmund, the founder of Salisbury. He reached Rome on 27 June, returning in May 1453 without accomplishing his object.

Having been historically governed by its clerical chapter alone, since 1872 the cathedral has been operationally overseen by a board comprising nine clerical members (the dean, precentor, two clerical vicars and five other clerics)"In the year 1921, and in every third year thereafter, the Dean and Chapter shall elect from among the clergymen of the Cathedral five persons, who, with the Dean, the Precentor, and the two senior Clerical Vicars, shall be members of the Cathedral Board." and nine lay members, elected every third annual Easter vestry. The board has the power to appoint and remove officers of the cathedral other than those whose appointment is vested in the archbishop, or the dean and chapter, or dean, to regulate salaries and to manage financial matters. The board is in a similar position to a select vestry of a parish. The board has committees – mid-2007, these are: administration and finance, culture (including the treasury), deanery, fabric, fundraising, health and safety, information technology, music, safeguarding trust and tower.

10Bishop Brice's chapter of eight clerics consisted of the dean, precentor, treasurer, chancellor, archdeacon and three ordinary canons. His successor, Bishop Andrew de Moravia, greatly expanded the chapter to cater for the much-enlarged establishment by creating two additional hierarchical posts (succentor and subdean) and added 16 more prebendary canons.Cowan & Easson, Medieval Religious Houses, pp. 206–7 In total, 23 prebendaries had been created by the time of Andrew's death, and a further two were added just before the Scottish Reformation.

He then held incumbencies at Corkbeg, Midleton, and Mallow before becoming Precentor of Cork Cathedral. From 1926 to 1933 he was Archdeacon of Cork then its Diocesan Bishop,Ecclesiastical News Consecration Of Irish Bishop The Times Friday, Dec 01, 1933; pg. 17; Issue 46616; col D“Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505 dying in post on 5 August 1938. He is buried in the churchyard at Holy Trinity, Frankfield.

The title "precentor" is also used at two English public schools, Radley College and Eton College, and a private school in Sri Lanka, S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, to refer to the head of music. These school precentors have no specific religious duties although, as part of their musical function, they may conduct the college chapel choir. At Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the precentor's main responsibility is as director of the college choir, which provides music for chapel services.

Cliffe was commissary of the diocese of London between 1522 and 1529, instituted to the prebend of Twyford in St Paul's Cathedral in 1526. He was appointed archdeacon of London three years later, prebendary of Fenton in York Minster in 1532. He resigned the archdeaconry of London to become archdeacon of Cleveland in 1533, becoming precentor of York in 1534, and treasurer of York in 1538. On the suppression of the treasurer post in 1547, Cliffe was made dean of Chester.

The abbot of the monastery was named the first Bishop, and the monks of the monastery were named the Canons of the Cathedral Chapter. At Saint-Pons, the last Abbot of Saint-Pons- de-Thomières, Pierre Roger, became the first bishop of the diocese of Saint- Pons-de-Thomières. In the new Chapter, there was an Archdeacon, an Aumonier, a Precentor and eleven other Canons. There was also a Theologus, who, however, did not enjoy the status of a Canon.

'Ulster Journal of Archaeology' Ulster Archaeological Society Vol IV p59: Belfast; McCaw, Stephenson & Orr; 1898 The brother of Jacques Saurin, he was appointed Dean of Ardagh"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p188: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 and Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on 22 March 1727."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p54: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 holding both posts until his death in 1749.

Born in Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket and Charlotte Bushe. Plunket was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Dublin before being appointed chaplain and private secretary to his uncle, the Bishop of Tuam, in 1857, a post he held for seven years. The following year, he became Rector of Kilmoyan and Cummer in County Galway. In 1864, he returned to Dublin as Treasurer of St Patrick's Cathedral, of which he was appointed Precentor in 1869.

David Stewart CrossThe Times Online — Obituary, Ian Harland (19 December 1928 – 27 December 1989) was the second Bishop of Doncaster who was later translated to Blackburn. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin,“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 he was ordained in 1955. His first post was as a curate at Hexham. From 1960 to 1963 he was Precentor of St Albans CathedralCrockfords, (London, Church House 1975) then moved to Manchester to serve St. Ambrose Church in Chorlton-on-Medlock.

Oxford University Gazette He was ordained after studying at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1954 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Peter's Brighton, England. Returning to Tasmania he held incumbencies in Sorrell and Richmond. After this he was precentor at St David's Cathedral, Hobart, then warden of Christ College, University of Tasmania until his ordination to the episcopate in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne on 1 February 1975.Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1975-6, 86th edition p 447.

He was the third son of Sir Edmund Carew. He graduated B.A. at Broadgates Hall, Oxford in 1522. Carew was archdeacon of Totnes from 1534 to 1549, becoming canon of Exeter in 1535 and precentor of Exeter in 1549, and was archdeacon of Exeter from 1556 to 1569. He was dean of Bristol from 5 November 1552, but he was ejected in 1553 under Mary I. He resumed the post on the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 and filled it until 1571.

Fenwick was vicar at St Martin's Church, Ruislip 1983-90 and priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey 1983–90. At Guildford Cathedral he was canon residentiary and precentor 1990-97 and sub-dean from 1996–97; He returned to Wales as Dean of Monmouth 1997–2011. In 2011 he was elected as Bishop of St Helena, a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. In 2018 he was succeeded by Dale Bowers, who was consecrated at St Paul's Cathedral on the island.

Thomas, the newly elected abbot, had previously been the abbey's precentor. On 10 January 1259 the king issued a writ de intendendo to the abbey's tenants, calling on them to accept Thomas as abbot and lord,Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1258–66, p. 9. An important grant issued by the king in 1267 makes clear that Thomas led the abbey in supporting Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, during the Second Barons' War.Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1266–72, p. 113.

Huet, who was probably from Brecknockshire, Wales originally, is recorded as being a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1544. He was Master of the College of the Holy Trinity, Pontefract when it was dissolved. Between 1559 and 1565, he was appointed to various church livings: he became rector of Cefnllys and Llanbadarn Fawr, both in Radnorshire, and also prebendary of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Ystrad, both in Ceredigion. He was precentor of St David's Cathedral from 1562 to 1588.

The seven sons are shown as figures on the side of Ralph's memorial. They are not shown in the order of their birth. First is shown Richard, who became a knight of Rhodes, and then Thomas, who was the rector of Norbury from 1500 to 1518 and precentor of Lichfield Cathedral. The third figure is thought to be John, who was the heir and is thought to have commissioned the memorials for his parents and his grandfather in Nottingham Alabaster.

He was Archdeacon of Stow, first in or around 27 February 1214 followed by Archdeacon of Lincoln in which office he appears by 22 May 1219. He was a Dean of Lincoln and a Prebendary of Aylesbury between 28 January and 12 March 1223. He is recorded however as being suspended by Bishop Robert Grosseteste in 1239, together with precentor and subdean. Bishop Robert Grosseteste had instituted a program of visitation, a procedure normally reserved for the inspection of monasteries.

Before and after the Second Vatican Council, a cantor in the Roman Catholic Church was the leading singer of the choir, a bona fide clerical role. John A. Hardon, Catholic Dictionary: An Abridged and Updated Edition of Modern Catholic Dictionary, Image books USA, 2013, p. 72 The medieval cantor of the papal Schola Cantorum was called Prior scholae or Primicerius. In medieval cathedrals, the cantor or precentor directed the music and chant, and was also one of the ranking dignitaries of the chapter.

Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 He moved to London to become an assistant bishop to the Bishop of London, Gerald Ellison. He remarried in 1980, to Juliet Dearmer (granddaughter of Canon Percy Dearmer) who had become a deaconess in 1977. They had one daughter. He declined the positions of Provost of Coventry Cathedral and Bishop of Worcester, deciding to serve as canon precentor at St Paul's Cathedral instead, an office that he held until he retired in 1989.

In 1800 he married Charlotte Lascelles, the illegitimate daughter of General Francis Lascelles and singer Ann Catley.rebus Their second son was Francis William Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor.thePeerage.com He was Precentor of York Minster from 1802, and Prebend of Driffield until his death;Death Of The Dean Of Glocester The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 20, 1862; pg. 9; Issue 24329 and held the living at Great RissingtonGeograph from 1810 to 1856 when he passed it to his eldest son, Henry.

Blois was a subdean, an ecclesiastical official, of the diocese of Lincoln by 22 March 1194,Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 3: Lincoln: Subdeans probably from about 1189. He was a frequent witness to Hugh's charters in the late 1180s. Although he was now serving Hugh, Blois did not entirely quit the service of Puiset, and was present at Puiset's deathbed in 1195. He was named precentor of Lincoln in 1197, in succession to the medieval writer Walter Map.

The interior with his horseshoe balcony was a typical Presbyterian hall church of its time, the only decoration the Presbyterian clock flanked by the burning bush insignia of the Church of Scotland and the burgh coat of arms. Lighting was at first by candles, replaced by gas in 1832 and by electricity in 1912. The original 1811 pulpit was a three 'decker' – minister, reader/precentor and finally 'repentant’s stool'. Further information about the current church building can be found here.

Samuel Mumford Taylor (25 August 1859- 30 November 1929DOB/DOD) was the second Bishop of Kingston. Taylor was educated at University College London"University College London, Dec. 3. (Official Appointments and Notices)", The Times, 5 December 1881, p7 and ordained in 1885. After a curacy at St John the Evangelist's Leeds he became the first vicar of St Aidan's (Bishop Woodford Memorial) Leeds;First Vicar of Parish He was then a canon residentiary and the precentor at Southwark Cathedral, then Archdeacon of Southwark.

He was born in Dublin, the son of Robert Fitzsimon and his wife Janet Cusack. He had close links to the Anglo- Irish nobility through his sister Alison, who married as his third wife Nicholas St Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth; after Lord Howth's death Alison remarried into the influential Plunkett family. Fitzsimon was precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral in 1476, and consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in 1484. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland 1492–94 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1496–98.

In 1550 Phillips resigned the post of principal of St Mary Hall, and soon after the accession of Queen Mary, in 1553, he became precentor of St David's Cathedral. After his absence from Oriel College for a longer time than was allowed, his fellowship was declared vacant on 20 December 1554. Declining to accept the religious changes of the reign of Elizabeth I, Phillips left for the continent and settled at Leuven. Soon afterwards he visited Rome with William Allen and Jean Vendeville.

Nulman, Macy, Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer (1993, NJ, Jason Aronson) page 8. Of similar construction is a melody of northern origin associated by English Jews with the penitential season. This melody is often sung antiphonally, between precentor and congregation, although it was obviously intended for congregational rendering only, like the Spanish tune given above it. The best known of the other traditional antiphonal settings exists in two or three forms, the oldest of which appears to be the one given below (C).

On the eve of the French Revolution, the Chapter of the Cathedral of Saint-Saveur (or of Saint- Sacerdos) was composed of eighteen Canons, six of whom were officials of the Chapter: the Dean, the Provost, the Grand Archdeacon of Sarlat, the Archdeacon, the Archdeacon of Biron, and the Precentor. All of the Canons were appointments of the Bishop, who also appointed seven Vicars-General. There were three abbeys for men in the diocese: Cadouin (O.Cist.), Saint-Amand de Coli (O.

In 1895 he became a minor canon of Westminster Abbey, and from 1902 to 1909 was Custodian of the Abbey and Precentor from 1902 to 1912. He was later appointed a vicar of Christ Church Greyfriars and rector of St Leonard, Foster Lane, both in the City of London, posts he would hold for 40 years. Hine-Haycock served in the Ecclesiastical Household as a Priest-in-Ordinary from 1905. He was appointed as senior Priest-in-Ordinary for Elizabeth II in 1952.

Guglielmo Massaia was born on 9 June 1809 in Piedmont as Lorenzo Antonio Massaia. He was first educated at the Collegio Reale at Asti under the care of his elder brother Guglielmo who served as a canon and precentor of Asti Cathedral. On the death of his brother he passed as a student to the diocesan seminary in 1824; but at the age of sixteen entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order, receiving the habit on 25 September 1825. He completed studies at the seminary in 1826.

In 1970, Salt went to southern Africa to the parish of Mohales Hoek in the Diocese of Lesotho. In 1971 he was appointed assistant chaplain and master at St Agnes' School in Teyateyaneng, thereafter serving at the Cathedral of St Mary and St James in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1977-9, p. 892. In 1977, Salt was appointed as precentor at St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley, the mother church of the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman, serving under deans Thomas Stanage and Roy Snyman.

Richard Wayne Dirksen (February 8, 1921 - July 26, 2003) was an American musician and composer, who served as organist and choirmaster of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 1988. Previously he was assistant organist and choirmaster from 1942 to 1964. In 1969, Dirksen was named the cathedral's precentor, giving him administrative oversight of all worship services until his retirement in 1991. Dirksen composed extensively, mostly choral and organ works, and his music continues to be regularly featured on broadcasts from the Cathedral.

Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 In 1962 he was appointed vicar choral and chamberlain at York Minster. He was appointed residentiary canon precentor at York MinsterPrecentors of York Minster since 1903 in 1966.Debrett's People of Today 1992 (London, Debrett's) ) In 1976 he was appointed Archdeacon of Richmond and canon residentiary at Ripon Cathedral, a post he held until his appointment as Dean of Norwich in 1983 (F.S.A). Paul Burbridge has a particular interest in model engineering and church history.

Each co-cathedral was served by its own Chapter, each Chapter having a Precentor, a Sacristan, an Operarius, six Canons, ten Prebendarii and a priest called the Vicar Perpetuus. Over both Chapters stood the Archdeacon and the Aumonier. Bishop de Marmiesse united the two chapters and based them in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède; it was composed of the Archdeacon, two Precentors, two Sacristans, two Operarii, the Aumonier, twelve Canons, and two Vicarii perpetui; there were twenty-four prebends.Gallia christiana I, pp. 1123-1124.

From the late seventeenth century the common practice had been lining out, by which the precentor sang or read out each line and it was then repeated by the congregation. From the second quarter of the eighteenth century it was argued that this should be abandoned in favour of the practice of singing stanza by stanza. This necessitated the use of practice verses and the pioneering work was Thomas Bruce's The Common Tunes, or, Scotland's Church Musick Made Plane (1726), which contained seven practice verses.

Seats are provided for the other significant clergy of the cathedral: the dean who is the foremost priest at the cathedral, the precentor, sacristan, archdeacon and canons. Each of these priests, either as secular clergy, or as previously, members of a religious order, is obligated to say the “Holy Office” every day. To this end, cathedrals normally have a number of small chapels used for private devotion or for small groups. In England there is a strong tradition that each chapel should face the east.

40 Hamo first appears as a prebendary of the cathedral chapter of York sometime between 1162 and 1174, but he was probably a canon at York before 1171. He may have held the prebend of Husthwaite.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Prebends: Husthwaite By 1177 he had been appointed to the office of precentor of York. He held that office until at least 1195, perhaps as late as 1198, as he was mentioned in a document dated to between 1194 and 1198.

Hardy, i. 216, 471 The appointments to both Bristol and Hereford seem to have had the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, but during Coke's time at Hereford, he was rebuked by Laud after Coke had appointed one of his own son's as Precentor of Hereford Cathedral. The son had been apprenticed but ran away to sea, seeing a severe storm as a sign from God, he then sought ordination from his father. Laud believed the son to have insufficient learning for a cathedral post.

Following his resignation from Radley, Singleton returned to Kingstown in Ireland, where he lived with his mother. Following her death, he moved to York, purchasing Minster Court.About Robert Singleton – Victorian educational reformer accessed 24 Nov 2012 It was here that he continued his long acquaintance and collaboration with Edwin Monk, who had been Precentor at both St Columba’s and Radley, and who was now Organist and Master of Choristers at York Minster. In 1868 he and Monk published their jointly-edited book, The Anglican Hymn-Book.

Adam's abbacy is notable mainly for a papal bull the abbey obtained in 1246, setting out a long list of grievances it had against Lilleshall Abbey and various others, including clerics of its own Diocese of Lichfield and of the Diocese of Hereford. The pope, Innocent IV, authorised the Dean of Lichfield and the Precentor to hold a meeting to settle matters. Adam resigned the abbacy in 1250 and Henry III, then at Westminster, authorised an election on 2 May.Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1247–58, p. 64.

He then became the vicar of St Philip's West HeidelbergVictoria Gazette and then the precentor and organist at St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn. From 1968 to 1972 he was the rector of South Wagga Wagga Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House and then the Archdeacon of Canberra. On 25 March 1981, he was consecrated an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn and on 15 November 1983 was elected its diocesan bishop. He was installed on 17 December 1983 and retired on 1 January 1993.

A dean is often the chief resident cleric of a cathedral or other collegiate church and the head of the chapter of canons. Some cathedral chapters are headed by Archpriests, Provosts or ( as in the mediaeval chapters of St David's and Llandaff until later reforms) a Precentor. If the cathedral or collegiate church has its own parish, the dean is now generally also rector of the parish. In the Church of Ireland dioceses of Clogher, Connor, and Dromore the roles are, however, often separated.

Thomas also set up a number of officials within the cathedral chapter, including a dean, treasurer, and precentor. He increased the number of clergy in the chapter, increasing it from the three he found at York when he took office, and reorganised the episcopal and chapter's estates, giving a number of estates to the chapter.Norton Archbishop Thomas of Bayeux pp. 4–5 He introduced the continental system of archdeacons to the Diocese of York, dividing the diocese into territorial units and appointing an archdeacon to each.

Gerard was the nephew of Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, and Simon, Abbot of Ely.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Archbishops His parents were Osbert and Anna,Burton "Gerard" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and his brother Peter was also a royal clerk.Barlow William Rufus p. 409 The places and times of his birth and upbringing are unknown; he is documented as cantor of Rouen Cathedral, and precentor of the same cathedral, although the dates of his appointments to either office are unrecorded.

The Chapter of the Cathedral of Apt was founded on 4 August 991 by Bishop Teudericus, in consultation with Prince Guillaume of Provence, Archbishop Annone of Arles, Archbishop Amalric of Aix, and Bishop Ingilram of Cavaillon, out of the clerics who served the cathedral.Albanès, Gallia christiana novissima, p. 216. The original charter establishes a corporation composed of a Provost and twelve canons. By March 1247, dignities of the chapter are named in addition to the Provost: the Archdeacon, the Sacristan, the Precentor, and the Operarius.

While there, Bernard helped John Combe, a lawyer and precentor of Exeter Cathedral, who came from Crewkerne, establish a free grammar school in the town. After Lady Margaret's death in 1509, Hugh spent a long time with his brother in Crewkerne,Pickerill (2001), p. 47. and arranged for him to be Archdeacon of Cornwall, a post which he held from 1509 to 1515. On 5 April 1515 Bernard was made treasurer of Exeter Cathedral, but he died within a month of taking up the post.

Joseph Henshaw (1608–1679) was bishop of Peterborough in the East of England from 1663 until his death. Henshaw was educated at London Charterhouse and Magdalen Hall of Hertford College, Oxford, receiving a B.A. in 1624 and a D.D. in 1639. He subsequently was chaplain to the Earl of Bristol and Duke of Buckingham; held benefices in Sussex; was delinquent in debts for which he had to compound for his estate in 1646. In 1660, he was precentor and dean of Chichester and dean of Windsor.

Wycombe is variously identified as W de Wyc, Willelmus de Winchecumbe, Willelmo de Winchecumbe or William of Winchcomb.Sanders (in Grove) considers the identification of the composer with Willelmus de Winchecumbe improbable. He appears to have been a secular scribe and precentor employed for about four years at the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire during the 1270s. He is also thought to have been a sub-deacon of the cathedral priory as listed in the Worcester Annals or possibly a monk at St Andrew's in Worcester.

Jones published a few forms of prayer from the church catechism in Welsh (London, 1695), which was mentioned in his defence at the trial; and issued, probably after his restoration, visitation articles for the diocese, printed in London in 1702. Matthew Jones (1654–1717), prebendary of Donoughmore, was a younger brother of the bishop. He accompanied his brother to Ireland, and became vicar-choral of Lismore Cathedral in 1681, precentor of Cloyne Cathedral November 1683, and prebendary of Donoughmore in 1687. He died on 7 December 1717.

St Andrew's Cathedral is built to the cruciform shape traditional of Christian churches and symbolic of the faith. The body of the cathedral, or nave, with lower aisles on either side, is crossed by the transept, forming a chancel for the seating of clergy and choir at the eastern end. The sides of the choir are traditionally known as cantoris, the side of the precentor, or cantor, and decani, the side of the dean, the senior clerical appointee within the cathedral. See Cathedral architecture and Cathedral diagram.

In monastic churches and cathedrals, a separate lectern is commonly set in the centre of the choir. Originally this would have carried the antiphonal book, for use by the cantor or precentor leading the singing of the divine office. Lecterns often take the form of eagle lecterns to symbolise John the Apostle.How to read a church, Richard Taylor, London 2003, George Ferguson, Signs and Symbols in Christian Art, New York 1966 Especially in North America and Great Britain lecterns are sometimes made as 'angel lecterns'.

At Karup there was a pilgrimage to Our Lady's Well. The chapter of the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Kjeld was secularized in 1440, after which it consisted of a dean, an archdeacon, a precentor, and twelve secular canons. There were also at Viborg the Benedictine nunnery of St. Botolph, a Franciscan friary from 1235, and a Dominican friary from 1246, as well as the hospitals of St. Michael and of the Holy Ghost. At Aalborg there were a Benedictine nunnery and a Franciscan friary.

While still studying at Peabody, Dirksen became assistant organist to Paul Callaway at the Washington National Cathedral in February, 1942. Later that year, he began three-and-a-half years of military service during World War II, resuming his post at the cathedral in December, 1945. In 1949, Dirksen was also appointed director of the glee club at the cathedral's affiliated St. Albans School. In 1969, he was the first lay person in the Anglican Communion to be named a Precentor, meaning he had administrative oversight of all worship services.

On 20 June 1560 he was made precentor of Lichfield, but he resigned this appointment before 16 May in the following year. He also appears to have been rector of Cottenham, Snailwell, and Littleport in Cambridgeshire, and master of St John's Hospital, Ely. Parker employed him with Dr Perne in 1568 to compose the differences which had arisen in Corpus Christi College. In 1570, Leeds, who had probably acquired a fortune by his practice in Doctors' Commons, purchased from Sir Richard Sackville the manor of Croxton in Cambridgeshire.

From 1853 to 1855 he was curate at Bonchurch in the Isle of Wight, and for some years after 1855 he remained there, taking pupils. Venables was appointed by Bishop John Jackson as his examining chaplain at Lincoln, and continued in that position when his diocesan was translated to London in 1869. In 1865 Jackson appointed him to the prebendal stall of Carlton with Thurlby in Lincoln Cathedral, and in 1867 precentor and canon-residentiary of the cathedral. Venables died at the Precentory, Lincoln, on 5 March 1895.

The chapel was built in 1535 on land owned by the Cathedral chapter through the initiatives of Paolo Pellegrino. In return an honorary canon of the cathedral was obliged to bear the expenses for the celebration of the feast of the saint and to provide alms for the poor on the feast day, a custom that persisted until WWII. The expenses for the construction of the church were seen to by the cathedral chapter with the chapel being administered by the cathedral Precentor. After WWII the chapel was neglected and disused.

The church of Inisnag was recorded as prebendal of Ossory diocese, in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of AD 1291-1292. The Treasurer of the Diocesan Chapter of Ossory, possessed the prebend of Ennisnag from the 15th century. This Diocesan Chapter, consisted of a Dean, Archdeacon, Chancellor, precentor and Treasurer, is traceable back to Felix O'Dulaney (1178–1202), the late 12th century onwards. The prebendal church of Ennisnag is included in the list of churches, or parishes, possessed by ecclesiastics of the Diocesan Chapter of Ossory, right down to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

William Pontington (died 1307),Worthy a Canon of Exeter Cathedral, purchased the manor of Poltimore in 1297 for the sum of £200 from Simon de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (died 1316). William de Puntyngdon succeeded Thomas de Charleton as Archdeacon of Totnes on 28 September 1303, and had been Precentor of Exeter Cathedral in 1302. The origins of William Pontington are not recorded. According to Pole he gave Poltimore to John Baunfild (John Bampfield), whom he called in a Latin deed his alumnus ("foster-son, pupil, disciple"Cassell's Latin Dictionary, p.

Samuel Edward Woods (1910-2001)Christchurch Star, 12 October 2001. was an archdeacon in New Zealand in the second half of the twentieth century. He was the son of Edward Woods, Bishop of Lichfield, and the brother of Frank Woods, Archbishop of Melbourne, and Robin Woods, Bishop of Worcester. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1937. He was a chaplain to the Student Christian Movement in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 1936 to 1941 then Precentor of Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch, from 1939 to 1941.

Bates received his ecclesiastical education at Kelham Theological College, being ordained deacon in 1958 and priest in 1959. After a Curacy at Eltham he served as an Assistant Youth Chaplain in the Diocese of Gloucester, and then as Youth Chaplain in the Liverpool Diocese. From 1965 he began a long association with Liverpool Cathedral, serving for four years as cathedral Chaplain. He served briefly as a parish priest at Huyton in Liverpool, before returning to the cathedral again as a Canon Residentiary and Precentor from 1973 to 1983.

Walcott was ordained deacon in 1844 and priest in 1845. His first curacy was at Enfield, Middlesex (1845–7); he was then curate of St Margaret's, Westminster, from 1847 to 1850, and of St James's, Westminster, from 1850 to 1853. In 1861 he was domestic chaplain to his relative, Lord Lyons, and assistant minister of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, London; and from 1867 to 1870 he held the post of minister at the chapel. In 1863 Walcott was appointed precentor (with the prebend of Oving) of Chichester Cathedral, and held that preferment until his death.

In going to Dublin in 1844, Monk commenced an association with William Sewell and Robert Singleton at the newly established (1843) High Church Anglican St Columba's College, Rathfarnham. It was an association which continued when the three men jointly were involved in founding St Peter's College, Radley, in Oxfordshire three years later. Monk's position at St Columba's was as organist, Precentor and Master of Music, and he was made a Fellow of the college. Monk went to Oxford in 1847 and with Sewell and Singleton, helped in establishing the new college at Radley.

In 1848 he became the first Fellow of St Peter's College, Radley, again, as at St Columba's, as Precentor. He features in entries in old boys' memoirs inter alia in connection with early games of cricket and football when there were insufficient boys to make up full teams. There is also an account of Monk having made a kite which was duly decorated with the school emblem and a device reading Sic itur ad astra. Monk pursued an academic career at Oxford, graduating BMus in 1848 and being awarded a doctorate in 1856.

Born at Bodorgan in the parish of Llangadwaladr, Anglesey, in 1505, he was the second son of Meyric ab Llewelyn ab Heylin, by Margaret daughter of Rowland ab Hywl, rector of Aberffraw in the same county. He was named after his maternal grandfather, and educated at St Edward Hall, Oxford. He graduated B.C.L. 9 December 1531, and proceeded D.C.L. 17 Feb. 1538. He was principal of New Inn Hall from 1534 to 1536. In 1541 he obtained preferment at Eglwysael, and was also made precentor of Llandewy-Velfrey, Pembrokeshire.

Arthur John Grimshaw (born Port Fairy, Victoria February 9, 1933, died Brisbane 6 September 2019) was the Australian Dean of Brisbane from 1985 to 1998. He was educated at St John's College, Morpeth and the University of Melbourne, graduating BA in 1957. He was ordained as a priest in 1958 and first served as a curate in Surrey Mills. He was appointed Assistant Chaplain at Geelong Grammar School from 1959 to 1961, vicar of Romsey and Sunbury with Lancefield from 1961 to 1964 and Precentor at St George's Cathedral, Perth from 1964 to 1968.

The king also agreed not to interfere with the execution of Neville's last will and testament. Surviving letters from the precentor of Chichester Cathedral beg the bishop to come to Chichester over Easter to celebrate the Easter Mass and to deal with pressing issues in the diocese. Neville's duties as chancellor kept him from attending to much of the business of his diocese,Moorman Church Life pp. 164–165 but he employed clerics to administer the ecclesiastical offices of his diocese and in general his relationship with his cathedral chapter appears to have been good.

The third dignitary is the chancellor (scholasticus, écoldtre, capiscol, magistral, etc.), who must not be confounded with the chancellor of the diocese. The chancellor of the cathedral church is charged with the oversight of its schools, ought to read divinity lectures, and superintend the lections in the choir and correct slovenly readers. The chancellor is often the secretary and librarian of the chapter. In the absence of the dean and precentor, the chancellor is president of the chapter, and within the cathedral is usually assigned the easternmost stall, on the dean's side of the choir.

John Morgan Howell (1855-1928) was a prominent figure in the public life of Cardiganshire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A supporter of the Liberal Party he represented Aberaeron as a county councillor for over thirty years and served on many other public bodies. Shortly after his election as a county councillor in 1889, Howell married Ann Evans at the Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist Church, Aberaeron. Howell was a prominent figure at Tabernacle, became its precentor in 1874, and was also superintendent of the Sunday school from a young age.

He obtained the prebend of Fenton in the church of York in 1681, and in the following year he was nominated one of the chaplains to the Princess Anne. In 1683 he resigned the prebend of Fenton, and on 19 October in that year he was instituted precentor of York and prebendary of Driffield. Soon afterwards he went into residence at York, and was put into the commission of the peace. He was also chosen one of the proctors of the chapter of York in the convocation of the northern province.

1780: Liturgies and Sermons (Scarecrow Press, 2009), , p. 28. From the late seventeenth century the common practice was lining out, by which the precentor sang or read out each line and it was then repeated by the congregation. From the second quarter of the eighteenth century it was argued that this should be abandoned in favour of the practice of singing stanza by stanza. This necessitated the use of practice verses and the pioneering work was Thomas Bruce's The Common Tunes, or, Scotland's Church Musick Made Plane (1726), which contained seven practice verses.

Map of the Diocese of Agen by Nicolas Sanson, dated 1679 The cathedral chapter was composed of twelve canons and several dignities (not dignitaries). The major dignities were the grand archdeacon and the precentor. The minor dignitaries included the other two archdeacons (Monclar and Marmonde), the sacristan, the porter, and the cantor. The office of cantor was suppressed by Cardinal Leonardo Grosso della Rovere (1487–1519), but was restored by Bishop Antonio della Rovere (1519–1538); it was suppressed a second time, and again restored by Bishop Nicolas de Villars (1587–1608).

Nimmo was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) as a deacon in 1978 and as a priest in 1979 during services at Inverness Cathedral by George Sessford. For his curacy, he served as Precentor of Inverness Cathedral between 1978 and 1981. He then joined St Peter's Church, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis in the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles: he served as priest in charge from 1981 to 1983, and as rector in 1984. He then moved to the Diocese of Edinburgh to become rector of St Michael and All Saints, Edinburgh.

All of these appointments were in the Diocese in Europe. In 1983, Willmott returned to the United Kingdom as Rector of Ecton, Northamptonshire and warden of the Peterborough diocesan retreat house at Ecton House. In addition to these positions, he became Diocesan Director of Ordinands and of Post-Ordination Training in 1986. He became a Canon residentiary and precentor of Peterborough Cathedral in 1989 (remaining Diocesan Director of Ordinands and of Post- Ordination Training) until 1997, when he became a canon residentiary of Durham Cathedral and Archdeacon of Durham.

George was born on 5 March 1660 at Hartshorne, near Swadlincote in south Derbyshire, son of Thomas Stanhope, rector of Hartshorne, Derbyshire, vicar of St Margaret's Church, Leicester, and chaplain to the Earls of Chesterfield and Clare. His grandfather, George Stanhope (d. 1644), was canon and precentor of York from 1631, and was rector of Wheldrake, Yorkshire, and chaplain to James I and Charles I; he was dispossessed during the Commonwealth. The younger George was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland, Eton College and King's College in Cambridge.

John de Rait [Raith, Rathe, Rate, Rathet] was a 14th-century Scottish cleric. The name "Rait" probably links him to the village of Rait in Gowrie, although the name "Rath" - Gaelic for a type of enclosed settlement - is common to many settlements in Scotland. Rait, at some unknown university, attained a Master's Degree in his youth; he was Archdeacon of Aberdeen between 1342 and 1350, and Precentor of Elgin Cathedral between 1349 and 1350. He resigned both positions in 1350 because in that year he became Bishop of Aberdeen.

Wolsey, however, declined in the King's favour and died in 1530, and Flixton was not yet suppressed. In 1532 Master Miles Spencer, Commissary of Norwich, found the priory all in order with no complaints. Elizabeth Wright, prioress, Margaret Olton, sub-prioress, Alicia Laxfield, sacristan, Agnes Asshe, precentor and Margaret Rouse, infirmarer, were all present, with two new admissions: Margaret Punder was also still there, and knew of nothing needing reform, but as ex-prioress had drawn herself apart from the obedientiary offices ("non est de gremio").Jessopp, Visitations, pp.

Ralph Allwood, (born 30 April 1950) is a British conductor, who currently conducts the choir of Queens' College, Cambridge. He was previously the Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College in the UK until September 2011, and set up many musical events, including the Eton Choral Courses of which there are now seven a year. He previously headed the music departments at Pangbourne and Uppingham. He also conducts the Rodolfus Choir, a critically acclaimed group of singers aged 16–25, drawn principally from the Eton Choral Courses.

Allwood implemented many changes to the Eton College Music Department since his arrival in 1985, including changes to the music lesson and scheduling system and doubling the size of the music schools. One very important job was to select the Music Scholars and Exhibitioners for entry into the school in F Block. Allwood directed and ran the College Chapel Choir at Eton, and had been doing so since 1985. In 2009, he announced that he would be retiring from his post as Precentor and Director of Music in 2011.

The scheme brought him into conflict with more than one privileged corporation, in particular with his own chapter, who vigorously disputed his claim to exercise the right of visitation over their community. The dispute raged hotly from 1239 to 1245, with the chapter launching an appeal to the papacy. In 1245, while attending the First Council of Lyon, the papal court ruled in favour of Grosseteste. Dean William de Thornaco is recorded as being suspended by Bishop Grosseteste in 1239, together with precentor and subdean in relation to the aforementioned matter.

Dilys Grace Edmunds (1879-1926), an early twentieth century teacher in India from a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist background, whose fund-raising work supported school building programmes in the Karimanj District of India. Dilys Edmunds was born in London in 1879. Her father was Mr Llewelyn Edmunds, the precentor at Bethel Chapel, Wilton Square, in Islington, London (a chapel built by Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in 1853, rebuilt 1884). Such Welsh Methodists had their origins in the religious revival of the eighteenth century, and had been influenced by George Whitfield and his patron, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.

Lining out first appears in 17th century Britain when literacy rates were low and books were expensive. Precenting the line was characterised by a slow, drawn-out heterophonic and often profusely ornamented melody, while a clerk or precentor (song leader) chanted the text line by line before it was sung by the congregation. It was outlined for use by the Westminster Assembly for English churches in 1644, and it has persisted longest in Britain in the Scottish Hebrides. Lining out was taken to American colonies by English and Scottish emigrants.

He was a member of the clergy at the See of Girona in 1321, canon in 1330, precentor in 1336, abbot of Sant Feliu in 1342, and was finally appointed bishop by Pope Clement VI. He was a fervent supporter of the excommunication of Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Empúries, uncle of the king. In 1357, he gave financial aid for the completion of the gold and wrought silver altarpiece for the cathedral, begun by his predecessor, bishop Gilabert de Cruïlles (1334–35). He was a pioneer inquisitor and a persecutor of heretics.

When the visitors persisted they were expelled from the abbey. They were even refused accommodation, at their own expense, at one of its granges or farms. They travelled to Dale where they assured themselves that the king's prohibition did not apply to visitations as such and, on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (24 June), pronounced their sentences. The abbot, prior, sub-prior, sacristan, precentor, cellarer and John of Gorscote were solemly and publicly excommunicated: members of the order were not to communicate with them until they were absolved by the abbot of Prémontré.

Turbeville was educated in the Benedictine cathedral-priory of Norwich. Here he also made religious profession, first as a teacher and later as prior. He first held the office of precentor of the diocese of Norwich from about 1136, and was subsequently Prior of Norwich.British History Online Priors of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007 Turbeville was present at the Easter synod of 1144 when Godwin Stuart told the improbable story that his nephew, William of Norwich, a boy of about twelve years, had been murdered by the Norwich Jews during the preceding Holy Week.

The chapel is unique amongst its comparably-sized peers in that it eschews sound boards (a common feature of English churches and chapels in which medium-to-large-scale services and concerts are heard) in favour of what the former Precentor, Ralph Allwood, calls a more "organic" sound produced without the use of equipment (apart from microphones in the pulpit and lectern). The audio reinforcement system in the chapel, installed by DRV Integration, was the winner of the AV Magazine audio project of the year award in 2003.

William Henry Harris's gravestone, St Martin's Church, Ruislip William Henry Harris (28 April 1884 - 23 January 1956) was a British Welsh-speaking priest, academic and translator. Ordained in 1914, he served for most of his life (1919-1941) as a teacher of theology at St David's College, Lampeter, becoming a professor of theology at the college in 1940 and Professor of Welsh in 1941. At the same time, he served at St David's Cathedral as precentor (1933), canon (1937) and treasurer (1948). He translated several hymns and liturgical texts into Welsh.

Wulfstan is known to have written liturgical materials relating to the Cult of St. Aethelwold. Wulfstan was active in promoting the Cult of St. Aethelwold and as precentor would have been responsible for providing various prayers, tropes, and hymns needed for the cult's celebrations. He is also thought to have composed various hexametrical rubrics, tropes and sequences within the musical manuscripts the “Winchester Tropers”. Many of these works attributed to Wulfstan bear no explicit indication of authorship and attribution depends mainly on stylistic arguments.See Lapidge, “The Cult of St. Swithun,” pp.

Through friends, he was appointed by the corporation of Great Yarmouth to a lectureship there; in a few months he resigned. When King William III visited Ireland Davies obtained an appointment as chaplain to one of the regiments proceeding coming from England, and he landed again in Ireland on 11 May 1690. In 1693 Davies became vicar-general of Cloyne; in 1707 he became precentor of Cork."Annals of St Fin Barre's Cathedral" Caulfield,R : Cork, Purcell & Co, 1871, from 1707 to 1710"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p.

H.M.), A.D.C.M., F.T.C.L., L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., L.R.S.M.) planned a very special programme with his choir for all the services which were officiated by the cathedral's Dean and Chapter, with arrangements by then Precentor, Reverend Michael Clarke included ushers from the six main Anglican churches of St. Mary's, St. Paul's, St. Peter's, Holy Trinity, St. Matthias, as well as St. Michael's. His brother Rev. Dr. Henderson L. Brome of the St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, Boston (Roxbury), MA was invited to speak. Regarded as a highly auspicious occasion, all the services themselves were broadcast and recorded by the islands local television network Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation.

With Sheldon's influence, Stradling was able to obtain many benefices, which he held at the same time (as a pluralist). He held positions, at one time or another, at parishes in Fulham and St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (London), Hanwell (Middlesex), Cliffe-at- Hoo and Sutton-at-Hone (Kent). He was also canon of St Paul's Cathedral and of Westminster Abbey: appointed to both in 1660, he was still holding these posts when he died. In 1671, he became precentor of Chichester Cathedral and was made dean in 1672, again holding both posts until his death.

In 1837, he began his studies at Magdalen Hall Oxford, graduating in 1840. He was ordained in the Church of England in the same year, and took up a curacy at St. Michael's, Lichfield, where he was also a priest-vicar in the Cathedral. Two years later, he was appointed as precentor and vice- principal at St. Mark's College, Chelsea, where the principal was Derwent Coleridge (son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge). He soon came to be on friendly terms with his new colleague and, in 1844, he married Kate Pridham, who was Derwent Coleridge's sister-in-law.

John Scrimgeour of Myres Castle near Falkland, Fife was Master of Work for royal buildings for James V and Mary, Queen of Scots, and Precentor of the Scottish Chapel Royal. He and his father held their lands by right of an hereditary office as sergeant-of-arms or macer to the King of Scotland.Sheriff Court book of Fife (SHS, 1928): Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 15 Feb 1530/1. John Scrimgeour kept the building accounts for most of the works of James V from 1529, especially for Falkland Palace and Holyroodhouse and most of these accounts survive.

In 1894 Woodward resigned as Rector of Chelmondiston, to return to St Barnabas', Pimlico, as Assistant Priest and Precentor. Woodward helped create the St Barnabas Choral Society, and continued his interests in carols and plainsong. In 1897 he published Hymns and Carols for Christmas-tide, and in 1898 produced Legends of the Saints, and then in 1902 and 1903 The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and Poemata. In 1899 Woodward left St Barnabas to edit the Cowley Carol Book. In 1904 Songs of Syon was published, and In 1910 Woodward’s edition of Piae Cantiones, compiled for the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.

He was born in London on 16 March 1827, the son of James Calkin (1786–1862), composer and pianist. Reared in a musical atmosphere, he studied music under his father, and his three brothers, Joseph, James, and George, also adopted the profession. When nineteen Calkin was appointed organist, precentor, and choirmaster of St Columba's College, Dublin, in succession to Edwin George Monk. St. Columba's College was a school mainly for the boys of the upper classes and for candidates for the ministry of the Church of Ireland; music and the Irish language were prominent features in the curriculum.

Howard Millar Nixon was born in Westminster on 3 September 1909 to Leigh Hunter Nixon, a minor canon and precentor of Westminster Abbey, and Harrie Nixon. He accordingly was raised in the Abbey precincts. Nixon was educated at Marlborough College before studying at Keble College, Oxford, where he took a degree in history in 1931. After graduating and finding employment hard to come by, he took up his father's suggestion of working in the Abbey's library, a task that Nixon enjoyed sufficiently to study for a diploma at the School of Library Studies at University College London.

Sterne's life at this time was closely tied with his uncle, Jaques Sterne, the Archdeacon of Cleveland and Precentor of York Minster. Sterne's uncle was an ardent Whig, and urged Sterne to begin a career of political journalism which resulted in some scandal for Sterne and, eventually, a terminal falling-out between the two men. Jaques Sterne was a powerful clergyman but a mean-tempered man and a rabid politician. In 1741–42 Laurence Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

The site of the old church is marked by the headstone erected to Samuel Meuros, who was session clerk and school master from 1794 to 1837. He was also Precentor, and it was his wish to be buried where his old desk had stood; thus he lies still at his post. On the back of the stone is the following inscription: "Here stood the Precentor’s desk in the Kirk of Bertram Shotts which was rebuilt and extended in 1642". This stone and the burial ground of the Inglises of Murdoston, which was inside the old church, give a clear idea of the site.

The Diocese of Brandon is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada. It has an area of .Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 The Rt. Rev'd William Grant Cliff, (formerly Rector of the Collegiate Chapel of St John the Evangelist at Huron University College, and Canon Precentor of the Diocese of Huron) was elected as the 7th Bishop on October 31, 2015, and was consecrated on March 1, 2016.Diocesan web-site Its cathedral is St. Matthew's Cathedral in Brandon, which was established in 1952.

James Henry Cotton (10 February 1780 – 28 May 1862) was a clergyman and educationist who held the position of Dean of Bangor from 1838 until his death and was instrumental in the restoration of Bangor Cathedral. He was the son of George Cotton, Dean of Chester, uncle of George Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta and the first cousin of Sir Stapleton Cotton. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained shortly after graduating. By 1810 he was junior vicar and precentor of Bangor Cathedral, and as such was responsible for the fabric of the building.

Hampartsoum Limondjian took lessons in Armenian music from various Armenian musicians like Krikor Karasakalyan (1736–1808) and Zenne Bogos (1746–1826). He soon came under the patronage of another Armenian - Hovhannes Çelebi Düzyan, director of the Ottoman Imperial Mint, after which he could devote himself fully to music and continued his music education in the Düzyan family mansion in the Kuruçeşme district of Constantinople. After serving as a chorist in the Armenian Church, he was made precentor (first singer) and chief musician. Around this time, Hampartsoum Limondjian started attending mevlevihanes, places of gathering for dervishes of the Mevlevi order, to learn Ottoman music.

The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, in the fictional county of Barsetshire. Hiram's Hospital is an almshouse supported by a medieval charitable bequest to the Diocese of Barchester. The income maintains the almshouse itself, supports its twelve bedesmen, and, in addition, provides a comfortable abode and living for its warden. Mr Harding was appointed to this position through the patronage of his old friend the Bishop of Barchester, who is also the father of Archdeacon Grantly to whom Harding's older daughter, Susan, is married.

Also placed in the crypt was the body of Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford in 1804. The church's choir and musical, famous since its consecration, continued with Sir Joseph Barnby (later Precentor of Eton), who served as its organist from 1871 to 1888 and introduced the first UK performance of Bach's "St John Passion", and with royal command performances (in 1886 for Queen Victoria at Windsor, singing Louis Spohr's "Last Judgement"; and later, at Buckingham Palace, for Queen Alexandra). The first religious service with music to be broadcast on the radio came from St Anne's in the 1920s.

In the case of monastic cathedral churches, the internal government was that of the religious order to which the chapter belonged and all the members kept perpetual residence. The alternative of this was the cathedral ruled by a secular chapter; the dignities of provost, dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, etc., came into being for the regulation and good order of the church and its services, while the non-residence of the canons, rather than their perpetual residence, became the rule, and led to their duties being performed by a body of "vicars", who officiated for them at the services of the church.

In the reign of James II he refused to attend the chapter held on 25 August 1688 for the suspension of the Rev. Mr. Lawson, in compliance with an order of the Court of High Commission. When the king sent a silver crozier to York, and a congé d'élire with a recommendation of Dr. Smith, a Roman Catholic, the precentor determined to accept the invitation formerly given him by the Princess of Orange to take refuge with her. When William III and Mary II were proclaimed at York, he preached in the cathedral to a large audience.

Walter Thomas was born in Athlone and educated at Trinity College there."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p807: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was Archdeacon of Killaloe from 1714 to 1715. He may be the same Walter Thomas who was Precentor of Cashel from 1715 to 1720; then Treasurer of Cashel from 1721 until his resignation on 16 April 1737, and for many years Rector of Thurles. His son George was Treasurer of Cashel from 1737 to 1768.

The ruins of Fortrose Cathedral on the Black Isle, the "seat" (cathedra) of the diocese of Ross It is possible that Thomas was still at the papal court when the cathedral chapter of the diocese of Ross were carrying out their elections for the successor of Robert de Fyvie. Two separate elections took place in the period between 17 November 1292 and 18 November 1295, and it appears that the chapter elected both the cathedral precentor, Adam de Darlington, as well as Thomas de Dundee, who then held a canonry in the diocese.Dowden, Bishops, p. 214; Watt, Dictionary, p.

Ruff is known for uncovering links between traditional black gospel music and unaccompanied psalm singing. Ruff's theory is that the Scottish Presbyterian practice of lining out – in which a precentor read or chanted a line of the psalm, which was then sung by the congregation – led to the call and response form of black gospel music. Ruff co-created the documentary "A Conjoining of Ancient Song", which focuses on a rapidly vanishing form of congregational singing that is shared by Scottish, African American, and Native American music. It received its world premiere screening at Yale in 2013.

The Cartulary's editor found no consistent pattern of patronage towards the priory. The many religious houses of the neighbourhood, including William de Chesney's Carthusian house at Sibton Abbey (c. 1149), the Cluniac house at Wangford (a cell of Thetford Priory), the many religious houses of Dunwich, and Roger fitzOsbert's Augustinian foundation at St. Olaves Priory, Herringfleet, were in competition to attract funding. In 1171 the Precentor of Blythburgh (whose office implies a fully organized community) was chosen to become the first prior of Ranulf de Glanvill's larger Augustinian house for 36 canons at Butley Priory (1171).

A rota is a form of round, known to have been used from the 13th century in England. The earliest surviving piece of composed music in the British Isles, and perhaps the oldest recorded folk song in Europe, is a rota: a setting of 'Sumer Is Icumen In' ('Summer is a-coming in'), from the mid-13th century, possibly written by W. de Wycombe, precentor of the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire, and set for six parts.H. Morley and W. H. Griffin, English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature vol. 10 (1887, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008), p. 227.

"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. pp308/9 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 and Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in 1647."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p52 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 He was appointed Dean of Cork in 1643;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p239 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Vicar of Harwell, Oxfordshire (then Berkshire) in the following year; and Bishop of Killala and Achonry in 1661, a post he held until his death on 23 July 1663.

The Very Rev John Bernard Haldane, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the 20th century. He was born on 27 May 1881 and educated at Keble College, Oxford.“Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Ordained in 1905 after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he began his career as Assistant Curate of St John East DulwichChurch web-site after which he was Priest in charge of St John, Earlsfield.”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913 He was Precentor of Southwark Cathedral from 1919 to 1937 and then briefly its Provost.

The Very Rev William Williams , BD was the sixth DeanAlthough an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181-1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David's.Who was Who (1991) Who was who. A cumulated index 1897-1990, CD-ROM, London : A & C Black, He was born in 1848,The Times Monday, Nov 10, 1930; pg. 16; Issue 45666; col A Photograph with caption educated at St David's College, Lampeter and ordained in 1872.

Since the 13th century, Wells Cathedral has been the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Its governing body, the chapter, is made up of five clerical canons (the dean, the precentor, the canon chancellor, the canon treasurer, and the archdeacon of Wells) and four lay members: the administrator (chief executive), Keeper of the Fabric, Overseer of the Estate and the chairman of the cathedral shop and catering boards. The current Bishop of Bath and Wells is Peter Hancock, who was installed in a service in the Cathedral on 7 June 2014. John Davies has been Dean of Wells since 2016.

He took up music, studied under John Mather and Benjamin Gleadhill of Edinburgh, and was a member of the choir of Duddingston parish church during the ministry of John Thomson. For some time Wilson was precentor of Roxburgh Place relief church, Edinburgh, where his tenor voice drew great crowds, and from 1825 to 1830 he held the same post at St. Mary's Church, Edinburgh. After this he concentrated on music teaching and concerts. He studied singing in Edinburgh under Finlay Dun, and afterwards in London under Gesualdo Lanza and Domenico Crivelli, taking harmony and counterpoint lessons from George Aspull.

Upon Callaway's retirement as the Cathedral's third organist and choirmaster in 1977, he was succeeded by assistant organist Richard Wayne Dirksen, the Canon Precentor. Washington Post music critic Paul Hume said of Callaway at the time, "It seems incontrovertible that he has had a larger influence on the musical life of this city than any other person". Callaway then served as organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington. He was a member of the Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes in Washington, where his requiem was held following his death from cancer on March 21, 1995.

Hugh Beringar is still his close friend, and Sheriff of Shropshire, selected by King Stephen, making friends with major barons (Robert of Leicester, character in The Holy Thief) who appear again in this story. Many of the brothers introduced throughout the series appear and react to Cadfael's trip out of their cloister, including Prior Robert, his shadow Jerome, the precentor Anselm, among others. The sister and brother rescued in The Virgin in the Ice, Ermina and Yves Hugonin, have grown in the past six years. Ermina married Olivier Bretagne, a squire in service to their uncle Laurence d’Angers.

Quite possibly a confederate in this project, Robert Crowley, Salesbury's former printer, was at this time a Canon of Hereford, having been instituted to the stall or prebend of "Pratum majus" in the cathedral of Hereford c. 1560–63. Salesbury worked with Richard Davies, Bishop of St. David's, (1 Timothy, Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter) and Thomas Huet, Precentor of St David's, (Revelation) to prepare a translation of the New Testament from the original Greek into Welsh. Salesbury was responsible for a large part of the translation therefore, as well as being editor. This was published on 7 October 1567.

Collectanea Anglo-Premonstratensia, volume 1, pp. 27—8, no. 16. The visitors made clear that they were not to be deterred and so were expelled from the abbey and refused accommodation, even at their own expense, at one of its granges or farms. Instead they travelled to Dale, where on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (24 June) they pronounced the excommunication of the abbot, prior, sub-prior, sacristan, precentor, cellarer and John of Gorscot, an offending canon: members of the order were not to communicate with them until absolved by the abbot of Prémontré.

For many years the enrolment stood at 46 boys and the headmaster was also the Master of Choristers and precentor of the cathedral. The school began to expand in 1941 and for many years in the latter part of the 20th century the enrolment stood at 700 and catered for boys from Years 3 to 12. In 1999 girls were admitted to senior years and in 2008 St Andrew's Cathedral School became fully co-educational from kindergarten. In 2004 the former dean altered the form of service in the cathedral in keeping with his inclination to rationalise the worship on "Sydney Anglican" principles.

Thomas was rewarded for his brave loyalty by being immediately appointed as precentor of St David's Cathedral in 1660 and was awarded the Oxford degree of Doctor of Divinity. In the following year, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon had him promoted by the crown to the living of Llanbedr Felffre, Pembrokeshire. He was noticed by James, Duke of York (later King James II) who appointed him as one of his chaplains. He became dean of Worcester in 1665 and continued to hold his deanery ‘in commendam' after leaving Laugharne when translated to the see of Worcester.

After his arrival in the colony, Major Skinner worked as a builder and contractor. From 1880, he practised as an architect, and designed and carried out several important buildings in Auckland and Thames, New Zealand. He also helped establish an early gymnasium and singing classes in Auckland; held the position of precentor at the Newton Presbyterian Church for over ten years; was an active member of the Orpheus Glee Club and several choirs; and was one of the founders of the Auckland technical school. 50px This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand license.

Chagri Monastery, where Umze Peljor lived after his retirement in 1705. Before his rise to Druk Desi, Peljor served as Umze or precentor at the state monastery, and was thus skilled at religious matters but completely unprepared for a high-ranking governmental office. Appointed ruler after the unexpected death of his predecessor Ngawang Tshering in 1703, Peljor effectively shared his power with the much more influential and powerful Kuenga Gyaltshen, who officially acted as Gyaltsab. As Peljor's reign was also short and obscure, the historian Tenzin Chögyal regarded him as little more than a figurehead, and John Ardussi called him "a virtual nonentity".

13–4 The dean of Elgin was permanently in attendance; the precentor, chancellor, and treasurer were available for half the year. The non-permanent canons had to attend continuously for three months. The chapter decided in 1240 to penalise persistently absent canons who broke the terms of their attendance by removing one-seventh of their income. In the Diocese of Aberdeen and it is assumed in other bishoprics also, when important decisions of the chapter had to be taken, an absentee canon had to appoint a procurator to act on his behalf—this was usually one of the dignitaries who had a higher likelihood of being present.

In 1854, Wood gave up his curacy to devote himself to writing on natural history, becoming a well-known parson-naturalist of the Victorian era. However, he continued to take on priestly work, as in 1858 he accepted a readership at Christ Church, Newgate Street, and was assistant-chaplain to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, from 1856 until 1862. Between 1868 and 1876 he was precentor to the Canterbury Diocesan Choral Union. After 1876 he devoted himself to the production of books and lecturing on zoology, which he illustrated by drawing on a black- board or on large sheets of white paper with coloured crayons.

Percival left university with a master's degree and took Holy Orders. By 1899 he was resident chaplain to the Bishop of London, and on 28 February 1899 he was appointed an Honorary Priest in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, his first entry into the monarch's Ecclesiastical Household. By 1905 he was also rector of St James's Church, Fulham and on 3 November he was promoted to Priest in Ordinary to the king. In 1910 he became the rector of St Mary's, Bryanston Square in London. On 6 January 1922 he was appointed Precentor of the Chapel Royal, and on 6 February 1923 domestic chaplain to the king.

In addition the boys alone sang daily "in the finest manner they know" the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary and also the evening votive antiphon. When Henry VI was deposed during the Wars of the Roses in 1461, a period of brief instability resulted in reduced numbers for a while due to lack of funds. However in 1479 with the appointment of Provost Walter Field the choir came to fulfil the full potential of Henry VI's vision. Field oversaw the acquisition of innovative polyphonic music in the Eton Choirbook style, and appointed a new precentor with expertise in the complicated Salisbury Liturgy.

Ambrose Jones (died 15 December 1678) was a Welsh-Irish cleric who served as Anglican Bishop of Kildare 1667–8. He was from a prominent family - his Oxford-educated father, Lewis Jones, served as Anglican Bishop of Killaloe, his oldest brother Henry Jones was Anglican Bishop of Clogher and later Meath, and his brothers Theophilus Jones, Oliver Jones, and Michael Jones were soldiers and politicians. Ambrose Jones was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, earning a Doctorate in divinity, and took up his father's post as prebend of Emly in February 1637/8. He later held church office as treasurer (1639) and precentor (1641) of Limerick, archdeacon of Meath (Feb.

O Maria salvatoris, from the Eton Choirbook A rota is a form of round, known to have been used from the thirteenth century in England. The earliest surviving piece of composed music in the British Isles, and perhaps the oldest recorded folk song in Europe, is a rota: a setting of 'Sumer Is Icumen In' ('Summer is a-coming in'), from the mid-thirteenth century, possibly written by W. de Wycombe, precentor of the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire, and set for six parts.H. Morley and W. H. Griffin, English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature vol. 10 (1887, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008), p. 227.

Adam of Saint Victor was born in the latter part of the eleventh century, probably at Paris, where he was educated. The first reference to him dates from 1098, in the archives of Notre Dame Cathedral, where he held office first as a subdeacon and later as a precentor. He left the cathedral for the Abbey of Saint Victor around 1133, probably because of his attempts at imposing the Rule of St Augustine at the cathedral. Adam likely had contact with a number of important theologians, poets, and musicians of his day, including Peter Abelard and Hugh of St Victor, and he may have taught Albertus Parisiensis.

By the end of the 16th century the chapter expands the chapel to a group of over twenty musicians, mostly singers, but by the end of the 17th century also four to six instrumentalists. By that time the canon-cantor (precentor) supervises three groups of musicians: the first is a fixed set of six vicars (here understood as spiritual musicians). These vicars have, by papal bull from 1444, six altars exclusively reserved for them, where they have to consecrate mass at least once a week. The succentor (singing-master) is the most important among them, needing to consecrate two more masses per week, and instructs the choristers.

He was the son of John Young and Eleanor his wife, and was born at Hodgeston, Pembrokeshire, in 1507. He became a student at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, and graduated B. A. 14 June 1529, M. A. 19 March 1533, as secular chaplain, B.C.L. 17 February 1538, (disputation for) D.C.L. 13 February 1566, and was admitted in London. He became principal of his hall in 1542, and resigned in 1546. He had already become vicar of Llanfihangel Castell Gwallter, Cardiganshire, in 1541, rector of Hogeston in 1542, and, in the same year, of Nash-with-Upton, Pembrokeshire. In 1542 he became precentor of St David's Cathedral, entering into residence in 1547.

John Graham, ed., Ireland preserved: or, The siege of Londonderry and Battle of Aughrim (Hardy & Walker, 1841), pp. 345-346 His father, Edward Browne, was Mayor of Cork in 1714.Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1927), p. 68 He was educated at Westminster School and on 29 December 1723 was ordained a priest of the Church of Ireland by his relation (through his wife) Bishop Peter Browne. He was appointed Treasurer of Ross in February 1723/24, Vicar Choral of Cork on 14 July 1724, Precentor of Cork on 13 February 1724/25, and Prebendary of Cork in 1732.

Robert Ponsonby Tottenham (5 September 1773 – 28 April 1850; Robert Ponsonby Loftus until 1806) was an Irish Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 19th century.Burke's Peerage 1967 p1201 He was born the younger sonClare Library of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely and Jane Myhill, daughter of Robert Myhill of Killarney, in Woodstock, County Wicklow National Archives on 5 September 1773 thePeerage.com and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.Tottenham name He was Precentor of Cashel from 1798 until 1804The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, December 5, 1804; Issue 11091 when he was elevated to the EpiscopateNational Library of Ireland as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.

In 1508 Chambre was given the living of Bowden in Leicestershire, from 1494 to 1509 he held the prebend of Codringham in Lincoln Cathedral, and from 1509 to 1549 that of Leighton Buzzard there; and in the same diocese, as then constituted, he held the archdeaconry of Bedford from 1525 to 1549. He was also treasurer of Wells 1510 to 1543, and in 1537 canon of Wiveliscombe; he was precentor of Exeter 1524 to 1549, canon of Windsor 1509 to 1549, Archdeacon of Meath 1540 to 1542, and dean of the collegiate chapel of St. Stephen's, Westminster. Chambre was also Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1525 to 1544.

George Andrews, MA (1576–1648) was an Anglican priest in the early seventeenth century.Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 0713642556 Born in England, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford,'Abannan-Appletre', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1–28 accessed 29 May 2018 and was appointed Dean of Limerick"A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 and Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H.

In Christianity, the cantor or the worship leader, sometimes called the precentor or the protopsaltes (; from ), is the chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, with responsibilities for the choir and the preparation of the Mass or worship service. Generally, a cantor must be competent to choose and conduct the vocals for the choir, to start any chant on demand, and to be able to identify and correct the missteps of singers placed under him. He may be held accountable for the immediate rendering of the music, showing the course of the melody by movements of the hand(s) (cheironomia), similar to a conductor.

Albin (or Albinus) (died 1269) was a 13th-century prelate of the Kingdom of Scotland. A university graduate, Albin is known for his ecclesiastical career in the diocese of Brechin, centred on Angus in east-central Scotland. Almost certainly a native of Angus, he appears to be a descendant of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of King William I of Scotland, through an illegitimate son whom Earl David settled in the area around Brechin. Albin, himself an illegitimate child, made his career as a churchman in the local diocese, and served for some time as precentor of Brechin Cathedral before, in 1246, being elected Bishop of Brechin.

At his death, he was Canon Precentor of Chichester Cathedral and Provost of Lancing College, and had been an Assistant Bishop of Chichester since 1930; he died on 9 March 1937 in Chichester,The Times, Thursday, Mar 11, 1937; pg. 1; Issue 47630; col A Death The Rt Rev H.K. Southwell his son having predeceased him during the First World War.Roll of honour A fund initiated after his death yielded enough contributions to provide a memorial,Bishop Southwell Memorial Unveiled In A Brighton Church The Times Monday, Nov 21, 1938; pg. 9; Issue 48157; col B which can be seen at St Cuthman Whitehawk in Brighton.

Subsequently Wyatt, who was much sought after as a teacher, was tutor in a school at Evesham, and then assisted Dr. William Fuller (1608–1675) in a private school at Twickenham, Middlesex. By recommendation of the chancellor he was created B.D. at Oxford on 12 September 1661, and when Fuller became bishop of Lincoln he made Wyatt his chaplain. He obtained a prebend in Lincoln Cathedral by Fuller's favour (installed on 13 May 1668, "vice William Gery, deceased"), and on 16 October 1669 was admitted precentor of Lincoln. In 1681 he exchanged this preferment with John Inett for the living of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, where he died.

This is the first of a series of twenty books featuring Brother Cadfael, collectively known as the Cadfael Chronicles. The author did not have a series in mind while writing this first book; the strength of the central character became evident as she wrote the second book. All of the characters in the monastery itself (abbot, prior, monks with specific jobs like the precentor or infirmarer) are introduced by name, if not by personality, in this first book of the series. St. Winifred and her shrine are mentioned in most of the subsequent books, and Cadfael often prays to her or talks to her in Welsh.

The Very Reverend Alfred Ian Watt was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century. He was born in 1934,"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 trained at Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained in 1960. Initially a curate at St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee,And then its Precentor he was then Rector of Arbroath before becoming Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1969. After 13 years in post "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark he became Rector of St Paul's KinrossChurch web-site before his appointment as Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Spence was born on 28 April 1699, at Kingsclere, Hampshire, the son of Joseph (Rector of Winnal in Winchester and Precentor of Winchester Cathedral) and Mirabella (née Collier, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Lunsford). In 1709, Spence attended school in Mortimer, near his birthplace, and later attended Eton College and then Winchester College. Spence matriculated to Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 11 April 1717, but did not go up until admitted as scholar or probationary fellow at New College on 22 April 1720. On 30 April 1722, he received a full fellowship, taking his Bachelor of Arts degree on 9 March 1724 and Master of Arts on 2 November 1727.

5; Issue 36022; col D he began his ordained ministry with curacies at St John the Baptist's Plumstead and St George's, Bloomsbury, England. Shortly after his marriage in April 1902, he sailed to Australia where he was initially Precentor of St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn and then Archdeacon of Wagga Wagga. Later he was Warden of Bishop's College, Goulburn and then, later, the second Bishop of Armidale,The former Diocese of Grafton and Armidale was split in 1914: Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975/76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISN 0108153674 a post he held for 13 years (1916-1929). On his return to England he was Warden of St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden.

Neill Molloy was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the seventeenth century. Molloy was born in King's County, Ireland (now Offaly) and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)", George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p583: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was ordained in 1617 and became the incumbent at Fercall. He was Precentor of Kildare Cathedral from 1633 to 1639;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 2" Cotton,H p147: Dublin, Hodges, 1848-1878 and Archdeacon of Clonmacnoise from 1638 to 1639.

Subsequently, as the register book of benefactors of St. Albans Abbey preserved in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, shows, he held in the abbey not only the office of precentor, implying some musical education, but the more important one of scriptorarius, or superintendent of the copying-room. According to the register it was under Thomas de la Mare, who was abbot from 1350 to 1396, that he held these offices. Before 1388, he compiled a work (Chronica Majora) well known at that date as a book of reference. In 1394, he was of standing sufficient to be promoted to the dignity of prior of Wymondham.

Lining out or hymn lining, called precenting the line in Scotland, is a form of a cappella hymn-singing or hymnody in which a leader, often called the clerk or precentor, gives each line of a hymn tune as it is to be sung, usually in a chanted form giving or suggesting the tune. It can be considered a form of call and response. First referred to as "the old way of singing" in eighteenth-century Britain, it has influenced twentieth century popular music singing styles. In 1644, the Westminster Assembly outlined its usage in English churches "for the present, where many in the congregation cannot read".

Michael Leslie Yorke (25 March 1939 – 19 April 2019) was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st.Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing He was born on 25 March 1939Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black and educated at Midhurst Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1965 his first post was a curacy at Croydon Parish Church after which he served as Succentor, Precentor and Chaplain at Chelmsford Cathedral. Following this he was Rector of Hadstock, a Canon Residentiary at Chelmsford Cathedral, Vicar of St Margaret’s with St Nicholas, King’s Lynn and Provost of Portsmouth Cathedral.

John Pierce Brown (1843-1925) was a senior priest in the Diocese of Down, Connor and Dromore from 1899 to 1923."Down Cathedral: The Church of Saint Patrick of Down" Rankin, F. p153: Belfast; Ulster Historical Association; 1997 Brown was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1868.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p189: London, Horace Cox, 1908 After a curacy at Kilmore, he was appointed Rector of Loughinisland in 1870; and Precentor of Down in 1875.The Ipswich Journal (Ipswich, England), Tuesday, November 2, 1875; Issue 7367 He was Archdeacon of Down from 1899 to 1912; and Dean of Down from 1913 until he retired in 1923.

Thomas Thurstan Irvine was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th Century. He was born 19 June 1913 and educated at Shrewsbury and Magdalen College, Oxford.“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1939,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 he was Curate at All Saints, Hertford and then Precentor of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth. Later he was Priest in charge at Lochgelly ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark and then held incumbencies at Bridge of Allan and Perth before becoming Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

The prebends were assigned by the Chapter, except those which belonged ex officio to the Bishop, the Dean, the Precentor, the Abbot of Benevent and the Prior of Aureil.Gallia christiana II, p. 498. Pouillé (1648), p. 2. In 1695 there were thirty canons, according to Ritzler, V, p. 241 note 1; and in 1730 there were twenty-nine: Ritzler, VI, p. 257 note 1. By the seventeenth century the city of Limoges had a population of around 4,000, divided into two parishes; there was one collège (high school). By 1730 the population had risen to 30,000, and there were twelve urban parishes, but still only one college.

Thomas Lloyd (b Dolgellau 1709 - d Bangor 1793) was Dean of Bangor"Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review", Volume 63, Part 2 p1093 from 1753 to 1793. Lloyd was educated at Ruthin School and Trinity College, Cambridge.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p96 He was Precentor of Bangor Cathedral from 1744 to 1748; and its Treasurer from then until his appointment to the deanery.

Hughe Hughes (b Dolgellau 1709 - d Bangor 1793) was Dean of Bangor"An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire" Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales p118: London, HMSO, 1956 from 1750 to 1753. Hughes was born in Llanrwst and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p96 He was Precentor of Bangor Cathedral from 1748 his appointment to the deanery.

Perham was a curate of St Mary's Church, Addington (Diocese of Canterbury) from 1976 to 1981, before becoming chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, John Taylor, from 1981 to 1984. He was also Secretary to the Church of England Doctrine Commission from 1979 to 1984. Perham became the team rector of the Oakdale Team Ministry in Poole in 1984, a position he relinquished in 1992 to become the precentor and a residential canon at Norwich Cathedral. He was instituted as Provost of Derby on 21 March 1998 (retitled as the Dean of Derby on 17 March 2000 with the general deprecation of provosts by the Church of England).

In 2005 he became Business Manager of the Macdonald Associates Consultancy, where he worked with David Dadswell, who is now Diocesan Secretary of the Diocese of Lincoln. Following his role as Business Manager he became a teacher of mathematics and statistics at Lincoln University Technical College in 2016. Dines was then appointed Head of the Bishop's Office by the Bishop of Lincoln, the Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, in February 2019. He is married to his second wife, the Reverend Canon Sally-Anne McDougall who, until May 2020, was Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral and who was, until 2017, Chaplain to Christopher Lowson as Bishop of Lincoln.

The almshouse date stone The chapter ordered that 13 canons, including the succentor and the archdeacon, should immediately "erect, construct, build, and duly repair their manses, and the enclosures of their gardens within the college of Moray".Dowden, Medieval Church in Scotland, p. 94 The manse of the precentor, erroneously called the Bishop's House,The Precentor's manse was granted to Alexander Seton simultaneously with his appointment as lay commendator of Pluscarden Priory. In 1604 he became Chancellor of Scotland and then 1st Earl of Dunfermline in 1606. He renamed the manse to Dunfermline House and became Provost of Elgin (1591–1607) and then Provost of Edinburgh (1598–1608). He died in 1622.

Campbell was born in 1764 at Tombea, Loch Lubnaig, and first educated at the grammar school, Callander, was the second son of a carpenter who, falling into straitened circumstances, removed to Edinburgh, where he died when Alexander was eleven years old. The family was supported by John, the eldest son, afterwards a well-known Edinburgh character (John Campbell died 1795, was precentor at the Canongate church, and a friend of Burns; his picture appears thrice in Kay's 'Portraits'). The two brothers were pupils of Tenducci, then a music teacher in Edinburgh, who helped to establish them both in his own profession. Campbell was appointed organist to an 'episcopalian chapel in the neighbourhood of Nicholson Street.

Wagner's first recorded meeting with Elizabeth Harriott Douglas came on 13 November 1820, and they became engaged in late 1821. She was the daughter of William Douglas (1768–1819), the Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral and Archdeacon of Wilts, and the granddaughter of John Douglas, whose ecclesiastical positions included Bishop of Salisbury between 1791 and 1807. They were married on 20 March 1823 at St James's Church, Piccadilly, after which they travelled to Brighton to stay with Wagner's mother at her house, 49 Old Steine. After spending a week in Brighton, where they attended the Chapel Royal and met the Vicar of Brighton Dr Robert James Carr, they travelled to Herstmonceux to visit George Wagner.

Before his elevation to the Deanery of Chester in 1987, Stephen was Canon Residentiary of Coventry Cathedral, where he was appointed Canon Precentor and latterly Vice Provost of the Cathedral. At Chester Cathedral, Dean Smalley oversaw a period of radical reform and renewal. Following the theme of Continuity and Change, he overhauled both the fabric and the liturgy of the city's famous medieval building to improve its appeal and accessibility for residents and visitors alike. Working closely with the Chapter, consultants and members of staff, he expanded and renovated the shop and Refectory restaurant, and opened a new Visitors’ Centre in the disused Undercroft, while firmly maintaining an established free entry policy.

While subdean he was involved in a dispute with the precentor of the cathedral, John Featley, with regard to some capitular appointments, and was attacked by him in a tract entitled Speculum Mapletoftianum. As master of the Spital Hospital he exerted himself for the revival of the charity, in conjunction with Dean Michael Honywood. A bill in chancery was exhibited in 1662 against Sir John Wray for the restoration of the estates, and Mapletoft at his own expense rebuilt the demolished chapel and increased its revenues. He also received from the crown the living of Clayworth, Nottinghamshire, which in 1672 he exchanged for the college living of Soham, Cambridgeshire, resigning his fellowship.

William was a son of Sir Adam of Bitton in Gloucestershire and the brother of Thomas Bitton who was precentor, archdeacon of WellsGreenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Bishops and Dean of Wells and Bishop of Exeter.Shaw "Button, William" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography His uncle was William of Bitton I, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He was rector of Buckland from 1257 and rector of Congresbury in Somerset from 1252.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Unidentified Prebendaries Before 13 December 1262 he was a canon of Bath and Wells, and was archdeacon of Wells as well as rector of Middlezoy in Somerset by 20 April 1263.

A native of Cornwall, Arundel was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford from 1421 to 1430, and served as university proctor in 1426. He was domestic chaplain and confessor to King Henry VI, who exerted influence on his behalf to gain him preferment in the Church, though without conspicuous success. He became precentor of Hereford in 1432, and archdeacon of Richmond in 1457,Jones Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 6: Northern province (York, Carlisle and Durham): Archdeacons: Richmond and also held prebends from Wells, Lincoln, Lichfield, Hereford, York and St Paul's; but the king failed in his attempts to have Arundel named Bishop of Durham. He was a Canon of Windsor from 1449 - 1459.

Miles-Moss was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1891 to 1894, where he was a choral scholar of King's College and president of the Natural History Society. From 1895 to 1898 he was curate of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead, then curate at Kendal Parish Church, and from 1901 to 1907 he was precentor of Norwich Cathedral. Although continuing a career in the church his passion was lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), so he jumped at the chance to work for the Anglican church in South America. Miles-Moss became expert on South American lepidoptera and produced a lot of valuable research, including specimens and drawings which are still in use today in the Natural History Museum.

The choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford In 1938, Oldaker was appointed as Precentor of Christ Church, Oxford, a role which included serving as Master of the Christ Church Cathedral Choir School. He arrived there in September, quickly gaining the nickname of "Pip", believed to have been inspired by the name of a Daily Mail cartoon strip called "Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred", in which Pip was a dog.Richard Lane, Michael Lee, The History of Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford (2017), pp. 52–57 He made big changes at his new school, joining the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, which meant that all boys had to be prepared for the Common Entrance Examination.

William Cotton was the Archdeacon of Totnes.Some Account of the Barony and Town of Okehampton: Its antiquities and institutions. Bridges, W. B; Wright, W. H. K.; Rattenbury, J.; Shebbeare, R,; Thomas, C.; Fothergill, H. G. Tiverton: W. Masland, 1889 He was born in London, the son of William Cotton, who was archdeacon of Lewes and later Bishop of Exeter, and the brother of Edward Cotton. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1597 or 1598, and graduating B.A. in 1602 and M.A. in 1605. He became vicar of Breage, Cornwall, canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1607, precentor of Exeter Cathedral in 1607, rector of Whimple in 1608, and rector of Silverton, Devon in 1613.

Returning to Scotland, Hamilton selected St Andrews, the Scottish capital of the church and of learning, as his residence. On 9 June 1523 he became a member of St Leonard's College, part of the University of St Andrews, and on 3 October 1524 he was admitted to its faculty of arts, where he was first a student of, and then a colleague of the humanist and logician John Mair. At the university Hamilton attained such influence that he was permitted to conduct, as precentor, a musical mass of his own composition in the cathedral. The reforming doctrines had now obtained a firm hold on the young abbot, and he was eager to communicate them to his fellow-countrymen.

Under King Edward VI, St Patrick's Cathedral was formally suppressed and the building demoted back to the status of parish church. On 25 April 1547, a pension of 200 marks sterling was assigned to "Sir Edward Basnet", the dean, followed, some months later, by pensions of £60 each to Chancellor Alien and Precentor Humphrey, and £40 to Archdeacon Power. The silver, jewels, and ornaments were transferred to the dean and chapter of Christ Church. The King designated part of the building for use as a court house, the cathedral grammar school was established in the then vicar's hall and the deanery given to the archbishop, following the transfer of the Archbishop's Palace to the Lord Deputy of Ireland.

The vicars had no place or vote in chapter and, though irremovable except for offences, were the servants of their absent canons whose stalls they occupied and whose duties they performed. Outside of Britain they were often called demi-prebendaries and they formed the bachcrur of the French churches. As time went on the vicars were themselves often incorporated as a kind of lesser chapter, or college, under the supervision of the dean and chapter. In contemporary cathedral chapters, the most common roles besides dean include precentor, pastor, sub- dean/vice-dean, chancellor, archdeacon, treasurer and missioner, although there is also a wide variety of roles which each occur only once or twice.

He was educated at Sherborne and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with a BA in 1783 (where he had got to know Lord Grenville), he was appointed to be a prebend and precentor in the diocese of Bath and Wells by his father (then its bishop) along with the livings of Wookey and Castle Cary. He then won the chaplaincy of the House of Commons in 1789 via Grenville, who also gained him the nomination to be Bishop of Oxford in 1807. He was also a Canon of Westminster (1792–1797) and Canon of St Paul's (from 1797). He returned the favour by backing Grenville's campaign to become Chancellor of Oxford University.

The Very Rev James Allen (15 July 1802 – 26 June 1897) was an Anglican clergyman, the second DeanAlthough it was an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181–1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181–1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David's."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 Allen was born in Burton, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Westminster, Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge,Who was Who (1991) Who was who. A cumulated index 1897–1990, CD-ROM, London : A & C Black, graduating in 1825.

Irvine-Capel was ordained in the Church in Wales by David Thomas, Provincial Assistant Bishop, the Church's bishop specially appointed to minister to those who reject the ordination of women: he was made deacon at Petertide 2000 (4 July) and ordained priest the Petertide next (2 July 2000). Both ordinations occurred at the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny.Newsletter of the Parishes of Abertillery, 28 May 2000 (Archive accessed 14 May 2019) and He served his curacy at Abertillery, Cwmtillery, and Six Bells until 2001, then Minor Canon Precentor at Newport Cathedral until 2003. In 2003, Irvine-Capel moved to become Rector of Cranford in the Diocese of London, Church of England.

The Very Rev.The Wrexham Advertiser, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Merionethshire, and North Wales Register (Wrexham, Wales), Saturday, November 30, 1878; pg. 4. (893 words). 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. Llewelyn Lewellin (3 August 1798 - 25 November 1878) was a cleric and academic, the first principal of St David's College, Lampeter and the first DeanWelsh Journals on-line of St David's.Before 1840, the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181–1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181–1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 Lewellin was born at Tremains, Coity, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, the third son of Richard and Maria Lewellin.

Watson was born in Denton, Lancashire. He attended Warwick School, before studying at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in 1925, a B.Mus in 1926, an MA in 1928, and a D.Mus in 1932. He then took up a position at Stowe School, Buckingham, followed by appointments as music master at Radley College, Oxfordshire, organist at New College, Oxford, from 1933 to 1938, and musical director at Winchester College, from 1938 until 1945. He moved to become precentor at Eton College, leaving in 1955 to take up a post as music lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, and organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford—posts he held until 1970.

As a courtier of King Henry II of England, he was sent on missions to Louis VII of France and to Pope Alexander III, probably attending the Third Lateran Council in 1179 and encountering a delegation of Waldensians. On this journey he stayed with Henry I of Champagne, who was then about to undertake his last journey to the East. Map held a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln by 1183 and was chancellor of the diocese by 1186.British History Online Chancellors of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007 He later became precentor of Lincoln, a canon of St Paul's, London, and of Hereford,British History Online Precentors of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007 and archdeacon of Oxford in 1196.

In 1821 he resigned and was immediately re-appointed to the same position which was then granted to him for his life by Archbishop William Stuart on 25 April 1821. He was Prebendary of Tynan in Armagh Cathedral from 1778 to 1786;Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3 Cotton, H. p56 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin from 1797 to 1823.Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2 Cotton, H. p58 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 Freind assumed, by sign manual, the surname of Robinson in 1793The Peerage and Baronetage of Great Britain and Ireland, John Burke, London, 1839 to succeed to the estates of his uncle, Baron Rokeby.

Westminster Abbey is a collegiate church governed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as established by Royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I dated 21 May 1560, which created it as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster, a Royal Peculiar under the personal jurisdiction of the Sovereign. The members of the Chapter are the Dean and four canons residentiary; they are assisted by the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk. One of the canons is also Rector of St Margaret's Church, Westminster, and often also holds the post of Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. In addition to the Dean and canons, there are at present three full-time minor canons: the precentor, the sacrist and the chaplain.

Roger was a canon of Salisbury by 3 July 1223 and was a theology lecturer at Salisbury by 30 September 1225. In late 1226 or early 1227 he acquired the prebend of Netheravon in the diocese of Salisbury.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4: Salisbury: Prebends of Netheravon In 1223 he had the prebend of Teinton Regis in the diocese of Salisbury, and held that prebend until he became bishop.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4: Salisbury: Prebend of Teinton Regis He was named to the office of precentor of Salisbury in early 1227.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4: Salisbury: Precentors of Salisbury Roger was elected about 3 February 1244 and consecrated 11 September 1244.

Cadfael is tolerant and caring towards most of his fellow brothers, but has several particularly close friendships. Brother Mark (Monk's Hood, The Leper of Saint Giles and The Summer of the Danes) worked with Cadfael in the herbarium on joining the abbey. Cadfael describes him: "He was my right hand and a piece of my heart for three years, and knows me better than any man living". Cadfael is also close to Prior Leonard of Bromfield Abbey (The Virgin in the Ice); Brother Paul, the master of the novices and schoolboys; Brother Edmund the infirmarer, who treats the sick and supervises the Abbey infirmary; and Brother Anselm the precentor, who is in charge of music and the order of the worship services.

Michael John Everitt (born 26 August 1968, in Banbury) is a British Anglican priest, and a former Archdeacon of Lancaster.‘EVERITT, Michael John’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 11 June 2013 He was educated at Warriner School, Bloxham; Banbury School; King's College, London; Queen's College, Edgbaston and the Venerable English College, Rome. Ordained in 1992,Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) his first post was as a curate at St Andrew's Cleveleys. After this he was succentor and then precentor of Bloemfontein Cathedral. From 1998 to 2002 he was chaplain at St Martin's College, Lancaster then rector of St Wilfrid's Standish until his archdeacon’s appointment.

Christopher Charles Luxmoore (9 April 1926 – 24 February 2014Diocese of Chichester – Bishop Martin pays tribute to Bishop Christopher 1926 - 2014 (Accessed 1 March 2014)) was the eighth Bishop of Bermuda.Mid Ocean News Luxmoore was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1953. His first post was as a curate at St John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne after which he was Priest in Charge of St Bede's, Newsham, County Durham. He was then Rector of Sangre Grande, Trinidad and after that Vicar of Headingley, Leeds. He was Precentor and Canon Residentiary of Chichester Cathedral from 1981“Crockford's clerical directory, 1995” (Lambeth,Church House ) until his election to the See of Bermuda in 1984, and was the first ever Bishop to be consecrated there.

In 1245 the ongoing dispute over the title of the bishop was resolved by a ruling of Pope Innocent IV, who established the title as the "Bishop of Bath and Wells", which it has remained until this day, with Wells as the principal seat of the bishop. Since the 11th century the church has had a chapter of secular clergy, like the cathedrals of Chichester, Hereford, Lincoln and York. The chapter was endowed with 22 prebends (lands from which finance was drawn) and a provost to manage them. On acquiring cathedral status, in common with other such cathedrals, it had four chief clergy, the dean, precentor, chancellor and sacristan, who were responsible for the spiritual and material care of the cathedral.

The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, 26 September 1870; Issue 54827 his first position was as a curate at Magdalene Church, Belfast. Later he was Rector of Dunluce, County Antrim"Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p39: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929 and then Succentor at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was Rector of Portrush from 1884 to 1886 when he became Precentor of Clogher."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 In 1903 he became Dean of ClogherCathedrals in the Clogher Diocese before moving to Dublin in 1911.

159 of his books were published, and he is said to have more catalogue entries in the British Museum than any of his contemporaries."Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine Volume 19 1887- Page 307 "Henry Fleetwood Sheppard has recently become widely known through his musical editorship of the two series of "Church Songs," published in England, and circulated to a considerable extent in this country.. Born in London on 5 February 1824, Sheppard graduated from Cambridge University in 1855 and was ordained as an Anglican minister the next year. For many years, he was the precentor and editor to the Doncaster Church Choral Union. Sheppard eventually became the Rector of Thurnscoe in South Yorkshire Sheppard published many pieces of church music, including Gregorian chants and hymns.

On 21 June 1339, Pope Benedict XII wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Bishop of Paris, issuing a mandate for them to protect Cardinal Gaillard de La Mothe against those who molest him, touching his benefices and possessions in their dioceses. This indicates that, in addition to the benefices already noted, Gaillard also had benefices in Canterbury, Winchester and Paris. On 20 February 1345, Cardinal de La Mothe still held in England the benefices of: Archdeacon of Oxford, Archdeacon of Ely, Precentor of Chichester (by 1321), and Prebend of Milton in the Church of Lincoln. On the prebend of Milton, which was settled in 1321, see The possession of such a number of English benefices should cause no surprise.

Clarke was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1976 and as a priest in 1977.Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing His career began with a curacy at The Ascension, Kenton, Newcastle,Genuki after which he was precentor of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, then the information officer and communications advisor to the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church. From 1989 to 1996 he was vicar of St Mary, Battersea,Church web site then principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon and finally (before his appointment to the deanery) a residentiary canon at Lincoln Cathedral.Debrett's People of Today London, 2008 Debrett's, As part of his duties as dean of Wells Cathedral he is also chairman of the governors at Wells Cathedral School.

The Very Rev Alfred Gilbert Goddard ThurlowHouse of Names (6 April 1911 – 24 April 1991)Authors-TH was an Anglican dean and authorAmongst others he wrote "Church Bells and Ringers of Norwich", 1947; "St George Colegate Norwich, a Redundant Church", 1950; "The Mediæval Painted Panels of Norwich Cathedral", 1959; Norwich Cathedral, 1962; "Biblical Myths and Mysteries", 1974; and "Cathedrals and Abbeys", 1986. British Library web site accessed 16:18 GMT Sunday 21 March 2010 in the last third of the 20th century. He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1935.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 He was Curate of All Saints, WokinghamChurch web-site then Precentor of Norwich Cathedral until 1955.

The key figures were the prior, the sub-prior, the cellarer, precentor, and the sacrist. In addition to the duties of singing the eight daily Liturgies of the Hours and the Conventual Mass in the priory church the Canons also had responsibility for the care of numerous other parishes. These included the prebendary of Canwick, the Parish of St Mary Magdalene, Newark- on-Trent, and the chapel in Newark Castle, as well as the parishes or Rectories of Alford with Rigsby Chapel, Bracebridge, Hackthorn, Harmston, Friskney, Marton, Mere, Newton on Trent, North Hykeham Norton Disney, Saxby and Stapleford. Ministry in these parishes would largely have been left to hired secular clergy but some of the closer villages like Bracebridge may have been under the direct auspicies of the Canons.

Rector of Pensthorpe, Rector of Great Massingham in 1698. MA Christ's College, Oxford 1651 Peile, John, Biographical Register of Christ's College 1505–1905, vol.1 A monumental brass exists in St Wilfred's Church, Kibworth of John Berridge (1572–1632) inscribed: H(ic) S(epultum) E(st) Iohannes Beridge s(acerdos) Theologie Professor Ecclesie Cathedralis B(eatae) Marie Lincoln Precentor atq(ue) huius ecclesie par(ochiae) annos 30 pastor eiusdemq(ue) patronus qui Londini animam Deo redidit 12 die Maii anno D(o)m(ini) 1632 aetatis suae sexagesimo. Conjugem sortitus Dorotheam filiam Ferdinandi Fielding Armigere a qua ei nati sunt 3 filie Maria, Festina et Grodhilha omnes ante patre defunctae et 10 filii: Basilius, Gulielmus, Ferdinandus, Georgius, Basilius Michael, Jacobus, Ignathius, Samuel, Johannes quos omnes (Basilio Seniore et Michaele exceptis) una cum uxore superstites reliquit.

Hugh Ross Norton OBE (born Marylebone,the.Peerage.com 3 April 1890 – died Bury St Edmunds, 10 January 1969) was Archdeacon of SudburyNPG details from 1945 to 1962. Norton was educated at Monkton Combe School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1914 Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947 and served curacies in Whitechapel, Stepney and Tottenham;‘NORTON, Ven. Hugh Ross’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 4 March 2013 also acting as a wartime Chaplain to the Forces in the Middle East. He was Precentor of Wakefield Cathedral from 1921 to 1924; and again a Chaplain to the Forces from 1924 until 1945London Gazette when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment.

William was probably born in Bitton in Gloucestershire.Shaw "Button, William" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography He was a relative of Walter Giffard and uncle of William of Bitton II, his two successors in the office of Bishop of Bath and Wells.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Bishops He was also uncle of Thomas of Bitton, precentor, archdeacon and dean of Wells,Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Deans of Wells and Bishop of Exeter. William was an official of Jocelin of Wells in 1231 and was subdean of Wells in 1233.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Subdeans of Wells He was named Archdeacon of Wells by 7 May 1238 and held the office until he was elected bishop.

Corner was a papal chaplain and proctor as well as a royal envoy. He successively held the offices of prebendary of Teinton Regis and Highworth in the diocese of Salisbury, precentor of the diocese of York, and archdeacon of Northumberland. In 1271, on the death of Fulk Basset, Corner was nominated as Archbishop of Dublin, but faced a rival candidate in Fromund Le Brun, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland : the result was a long and bitter struggle for the office, which required the personal intervention of the Pope, and ended in 1279 with both candidates being disqualified in favour of John de Derlington (although John, detained in England on official business, died without reaching Ireland). D'Alton, John Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin Hodges and Smith Dublin 1838 p.

He was appointed a Canon of the Cathedral Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario in 2003 and named Canon Precentor of the Diocese of Huron in 2009. While in the Diocese of Huron he served as a liturgical Master of Ceremonies from 1995 until his election and departure to Brandon in 2016. In that time, he also compiled and published a volume for use in the Diocese of Huron called "Eucharistic Canons of the Anglican Communion" (2013)125 copies published and bound by the Diocese of Huron for use in Diocesan Churches to better assist the liturgy and prayer in the Diocese of Huron. Cliff also earned an M.A. in historical theology while working at Huron with a Thesis on the Chapel Royal and influences of Elizabeth I on politics in her day.

Robert Grave was an Anglican priest in the last years of the sixteenth century.Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 0713642556 Born in Kent, he was educated at Cambridge University.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. ii Dabbs – Juxton (1922) p248 He was appointed Dean of Cork in 1590;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p239 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Precentor of Limerick in 1591;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H.

David Watcyn Morgan (or Watkin-Morgan; 7 March 18591939 England and Wales Register – 6 May 1940) was the seventh DeanAlthough an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181-1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David's.Who was Who (1991) Who was who. A cumulated index 1897-1990, CD-ROM, London : A & C Black, from 1931 to 1940 He was born in 1859Ceredigion CC web-site and educated at St David's College, Lampeter and became Perpetual curate of Morriston in 1886.History of St Davids Church He was a Canon of St David’s Cathedral from 1919 until his accession to the Deanery.

The collegiate church was always completely secular: none of the canons or vicars lived the communal life of monks, their work being funded by income from tithes on the extensive lands of the parish (which were shared with the bishop). The early dedication of the church was to St Mary, but the present dedication—the Church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him Who Hung Thereon—came into use only after the 1230s. The church was extended in the late 13th century by the addition of the Lady Chapel and the Chapter House. John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter (1327–1369), attempted to ensure that at least the chief officers of the college, the precentor and the treasurer, were resident in the immediate area of the church.

David Frederick Ruddell Wilson (1871–1957) was an IrishJSTOR Anglican priest Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505 and hymnist. He was Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in the Church of Ireland in the second quarter of the 20th century.Sir Shane Leslie Papers Born into an ecclesiastical family,He was the son of the Rev. James Wilson, Rector of Tyholland, Monaghan > “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Ordained in 1895, his first position was as a curate at St. Ann’s Belfast."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 He was Succentor and then Precentor of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin until 1914 when he became Rector of Drumcondra.

Theophilus Levett was married to Mary Babington, the daughter of Zachary Babington,Zachary Babington, Whittington & District History Society, wdhs.org.uk a lawyer, High Sheriff of Staffordshire and influential early figure in Lichfield history.Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Isabel of Essex Volume, Marquis of Ruvigny, Raineval Staff, republished by the Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994 Levett and his wife later inherited Babington properties at Curburough, Whittington and elsewhere in Staffordshire. The Babington family had been prominent in the Lichfield Cathedral for two centuries and as local barristers.Sampson Erdeswicke, Thomas Harwood, A Survey of Staffordshire: Containing the Antiquities of that County, J. B. Nichols and Son, London, 1820 Dr. Zachary Babington, great- grandfather of barrister Zachary, was precentor of Lichfield Cathedral, as well as diocesan chancellor, and died at his estate Curborough Hall in 1613.

John Dalton was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the 17th century.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361 Dalton was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Vicar of Dungarvan; Chancellor of Lismore Cathedral, Ireland from 1665 to 1699;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p177 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 Precentor of Waterford"The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Volume 28" p119: London; T.Clerc Smith; 1845 from 1682 to 1699;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp143/4 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Dean of Waterford from 1691 to 1699.

Roger's elder brother Robert was the ancestor of another distinguished judge, Robert Rochfort, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer under Queen Anne, whose descendants held the title Earl of Belvedere.Lodge and Archdall Peerage of Ireland Little is known of his life before 1502, when he became Precentor of St. Patrick's Cathedral; he became Dean in 1505.Ball F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 He was an active and reforming Dean who laid down important new rules on the jurisdiction and discipline of the Cathedral, and it was during his tenure as Dean that the Cathedral College of Minor Canons and Choristers was incorporated.Henry Cotton Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland Dublin 1850 Hodges and Smith Vol.

Hildor Lundvik (Gävle, 6 March 1885 – Stockholm, 24 January 1951) first studied law at Uppsala University, then music at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, graduating as a music teacher in 1912, as precentor and organist (Västerås) in 1919 and singing teacher in 1913. He became organist of St Göran, Stockholm, 1928, directed the Bellman Male-Choir from 1930 to 1950, and was Principal Conductor of the Stockholm Federation of Male Voice Choirs. Hildor Lundvik’s main achievement as a composer was in the field of vocal music, although he also produced a small number of short orchestral works (Liten svit and Två elegiska melodier) and various piano compositions. His choral songs Som ett blommande mandelträd and Det första vårregnet (both 1932) and Verlaine-stämning (1937) have stood the test of time with their natural freshness unimpaired.

London: Longman, Green, 1906 He was born in Castlecaulfield and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p239: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was Archdeacon of Dublin from 1715 to 1719;"Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland Vol II" Cotton,H pp130: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 and Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1719 until his death."Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland Vol II" Cotton,H p112: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 He was also the librarian of Marsh's Library, Dublin, from 1719 to 1730, and compiled the first catalogue of the library.Muriel McCarthy, Marsh's Library: All Graduates and Gentlemen.

Burke was made deacon at Petertide 1992 (5 July) by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster and ordained a priest the Petertide following (5 July 1993) by Gordon Bates, Bishop of Whitby, at St Mary's Church, Nunthorpe (his title). He served his curacy in Nunthorpe (1992–1996) before becoming Vicar of South Bank, York until 2002 and then Rector of St Dunstan's, Stepney (East London). On 12 September 2010, he was installedChristopher Burke — YouTube a Canon Residentiary of Sheffield Cathedral and served as "Canon for Learning and Development" until 2013, when, remaining a Canon Residentiary, he took the role of Precentor; he additionally become Vice-Dean in 2014. On 16 December 2018, it was announced that Burke is to serve as Archdeacon of Barking in the Diocese of Chelmsford: his collation at Chelmsford Cathedral is scheduled for 12 May 2019.

Arthur Douglas Wagner was the only son of Henry Michell Wagner (1792–1870), Vicar of Brighton from 1824 until his death, and Elizabeth Harriott Douglas (1797–1829). They had met in 1820 and were married in 1823. Both had an ecclesiastical background: Henry Wagner's grandfather Henry Michell was Vicar of Brighton during the 18th century and was an influential figure when the town's fashionability was at its height, and Elizabeth Harriott's father William Douglas and grandfather John Douglas were respectively the Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral and the Bishop of Salisbury. Wagner's birthplace, Park Hill in Windsor, was owned by his mother's family. Born on 13 June 1824, he was named Arthur after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, whose son had been tutored by Henry Wagner from 1817 and who later appointed Wagner as Vicar of Brighton.

Robert Howard, D.D. (October 1670 – 3 April 1740) was an Anglican prelate who served in the Church of Ireland as the Bishop of Killala and Achonry (1727–1730) and Bishop of Elphin (1730–1740). Born in October 1670, he was the son of Ralph Howard, M.D., The Province of Leinster, p. 53. In 1703, Robert Howard became a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin., The Province of Connaught, p. 75. He was appointed Vicar of St. Ann's Church, Dublin in November 1717, then Curate of St. Bride's Church, Dublin. He was then appointed a Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1712,, The Province of Leinster, p. 167. and Dean of Ardagh in 1722,, The Province of Ulster, p. 188. Precentor of Christ Church, Dublin in March 1723, and Chancellor of St. Patrick's, Dublin and Vicar of Finglas in April 1723.

Henry George Ley MA DMus FRCO FRCM HonRAM (30 December 188724 August 1962) was an English organist, composer and music teacher. Dr Ley was born in Chagford in Devon on 30 December 1887. He was a chorister at St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, Music Scholar at Uppingham School, Organ Scholar of Keble College, Oxford (1906), where he was President of the University Musical Club in 1908, and an Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, where he was a pupil of Sir Walter Parratt and Marmaduke Barton. He was organist at St Mary’s, Farnham Royal, from 1905–1906, and at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (1909–1926), Professor of organ at the Royal College of Music in London from 1919, and Precentor at Radley College and at Eton College (that is, in charge of the music in College Chapel) from 1926 to 1945.

Portrait of E. Owen Phillips. The Very Rev Evan Owen PhillipsNational Library of Wales DD MA (known as Owen; 1826–1897) was an eminentArchifdy Ceredigion Archives Welsh Anglican priest, the third DeanAlthough an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181-1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David's. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and graduated BA as 18th Wrangler in 1849. Ordained in 1850,The Times, Friday, Mar 05, 1897; pg. 10; Issue 35143; col B Obituary The Very Rev E.O. Phillips he was Warden of the Welsh College, Llandovery from 1854 to 1861College web site and held incumbencies at Aberystwyth Who was Who (1991) Who was who.

In Cornwall he built or restored the churches of Gwithian, Wendron, Altarnun, North Hill, Ruan Major (modified during restoration), St. Peter's, Newlyn, and St Stephens by Launceston, while he had in progress at the time of his death a new church, St Martin's at Marple in Cheshire, together with its rectory History of St Martin's Church - Anthony Burton and two churches in Wales, the restoration of Bigbury church, and a mansion at Hayle for Mr. W. J. Rawlings. Sedding was a performer on the harmonium and organ, and an admirer of ancient church music. He was for a time precentor of the church of St. Raphael the Archangel, Bristol, and organist of St. Mary the Virgin, Soho. He greatly exerted himself in the revival of carol singing, and his books of Christmas carols were very popular.

The Very Rev Bertie Lewis (born 24 August 1931) was the 13th DeanAlthough an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181-1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David's “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 between 1990 and 1994. He was born on 24 August 1931 and educated at St David's College, Lampeter and St Catherine's College, Oxford. He was ordained after a period of study at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford in 1958 and began his career with curacies at Cwmaman and Aberystwyth St Michael. He held incumbencies at Llanddewibrefi,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 Henfynyw and Lampeter.

Wedding festivities are conducted in the presence of a large group of people and which require a higher level of singing performance. The opening is similar to that of Sabbath and holiday meals, but they soon move to the more essential part of the shirot, as noted, performed by the professional meshorer (precentor), accompanied by a rhythmic beating of a copper plate (ṣaḥn) and by dancing performed by well-mannered dancers. The melodies of the Sabbath and holiday meals are very similar to those related to prayers and liturgical poems and which are said in the synagogue, and belong to the ancient musical heritage of the Jewish people. According to some scholars who found in them a resemblance to the liturgical music of orthodox Christian churches in the Land of Israel, their origin belongs rather to the music of the Temple.

A National Trust report referenced in the Historic Environment Record could not determine if the pre-1304 rectory was retained for the college's use, or if a new building was erected instead. In 1444, a report by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Thomas Beckington, recorded that, due to poor management by the provost, the college had fallen into disrepair: the buildings were in a bad state, and only two priests remained alongside the provost, rather than the intended four. Beckington gave the governance of the college to the precentor of Wells, and a few years later the current building was erected. In his article, Chantry Priests' Houses and other Medieval Lodgings, W. A. Pantin suggests that this building is probably smaller than the original college, due to the reduced number of clergy, and that it was most likely erected around 1450–60.

Donald Alexander Tytler (2 May 1925 – 1992) was the 8th Bishop of Middleton. A noted liberal,The Times, Tuesday, Nov 01, 1960; pg. 6; Issue 54917; col C Evidence Ends With 35 Witnesses Not Called Decision Expected Tomorrow (R v Penguin Books Ltd - the Lady Chatterley's Lover case) he was born in 1925 and educated at Eastbourne College and Christ's College, Cambridge; theological training at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Ordained in 1949 to assistant curacy in Yardley, Birmingham; SCM Chaplain, University of Birmingham, 1952; Precentor at Birmingham Cathedral, 1955; Diocescan Director of Education within the Diocese of Birmingham, 1957; Vicar of St Mark, Londonderry, and Rural dean of Warley, 1963; Canon Residentiary, Birmingham Cathedral, 1972; and Archdeacon of Aston, 1977; Suffragan Bishop of Middleton, 1982,Who's Who 1984, London, A & C Black, 1984 held until his death in 1992.

Peter St George Vaughan (27 November 1930 – 4 April 2020) was the area Bishop of Ramsbury from 1989 to 1998.Debrett's People of Today 1992 (London, Debrett's) ) Vaughan was educated at Charterhouse School and Selwyn College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at Birmingham Parish Church, followed by an appointment as a chaplain to The Oxford Pastorate based at St Aldate's Church, Oxford. He was then the Vicar of Christ Church Galle Face Colombo Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972 before becoming the Precentor of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland and then Principal of Crowther Hall, the Church Mission Society college at Selly Oak and then (his final appointment before ordination to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness.Crockford's clerical directory 1995 (Lambeth, Church House ) In retirement he had continued as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester.

In early times the common method of singing in Presbyterian worship, was lining out, where a precentor read or sang one line and the congregation repeated it after them. The Directory of Public Worship,Of the Singing of Psalms, Directory of Public Worship says this: :That the whole congregation may join herein, every one that can read is to have a psalm book; and all others, not disabled by age or otherwise, are to be exhorted to learn to read. But for the present, where many in the congregation cannot read, it is convenient that the minister, or some other fit person appointed by him and the other ruling officers, do read the psalm, line by line, before the singing thereof. It appears from the wording that this was a practical measure in 1650, not a doctrinal position.

The aforementioned folio of the Gradual-Antiphoner of the Abbey Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (F-Pn lat. 12584) is probably one of the earliest sources for this popular tune, which seemed just to be an intonation formula of plagis protus with a final melisma. Florid organum itself like any tropus can be regarded in two ways, as a useful exercise to memorize a certain cantus precisely note by note on the one hand or, as a very refined and embellished performance by a well-skilled soloist or precentor. «Stirps iesse» was actually a combination of both, as a Benedicamus performed «cum organo» it was rather a longer performance during an important liturgical feast, but the troped organal voice added a certain Marian poem to it, which fixed it within the week between Christmas and New Year.

Robert Bell, D.D. (1808-1883) was Archdeacon of Cashel from 1879 unil his death.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . The son of Robert Bell, Precentor of Emly,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p96 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 he was born in Tipperary and educated at Trinity College, Dublin;"Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p237: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was the Incumbent at Tipperary;'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Thursday, 18 January 1883; Issue 5580 Archdeacon of Waterford from 1845 to 1879;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H.

Albert James Adams (9 November 1915 – 11 May 1999) was an Anglican bishop. He was the fifth Bishop of Barking — a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford — from 1975 to 1983.Church news: Two new bishops suffragan named, The Times, 5 March 1975; p16; Issue 59336; col CThe Times, 9 February 1983; p12; Issue 61452; col C, Bishop Adams resigns Adams was educated at Brentwood School and King's College London.Independent Obituary His first ordained ministry position was as a curate in Walkley.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 He was then successively succentor, then precentor, of Sheffield Cathedral; Rector of Bermondsey; Rural Dean of Redbridge;“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and Archdeacon of West Ham (1970–1975) before being ordained to the episcopate on 24 June 1975 by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.

He was a friend of the Anglican priest Roger Greenacre, former precentor of Chichester Cathedral in England. For Greenacre's fiftieth anniversary of his ordination at Michaelmas (the Feast of the Archangel Saint Michael) of 2005, Tauran traveled to Chichester and served as a guest preacher.Tauran at Greenacre's 50th anniversary service He was also present at Greenacre's Memorial Requiem at Chichester Cathedral on 23 September 2011.Tauran at Greenacre's Requiem In an April 2012 message marking the upcoming Buddhist celebration of Vesakh, a feast commemorating the key events in the life of the Buddha, Tauran said that "Young people are an asset for all societies" and called for education about varieties of religious practice in order to allow them to "advance together as responsible human beings and to be ready to join hands with those of other religions to resolve conflicts and to promote friendship, justice, peace and authentic human development".

He is found in possession of the precentorship of Dornoch Cathedral, seat (cathedra) of the diocese of Caithness, when a papal mandate from Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, 25 July 1398, authorised his appointment as Archdeacon of Caithness: > To William de Gerland and Thomas de Edname, canons of Caithness, and the > official of Caithness. Mandate to collate Alexander Vause, of noble birth, > precentor of Caithness, to the archdeaconry of Caithness, a non-elective, > non-major dignity with cure, value not exceeding 30 merks sterling, vacant > because John de Innes had held it for more than a year without being raised > to the priesthood, and without dispensation, and still unlawfully detains it > at present; notwithstanding that Alexander is known to hold the said > precentorship, which, however, on his peaceful assecution to the > archdeaconry he is to demit.McGurk (ed.), Calendar of Papal Letters, p. 88; > see also Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp.

Like Yehudai Gaon, he was opposed to the recitation of the Shema in the Kedushah. Historically this innovation arose when, Jacob Mann opined, Heraclius, breaking a promise he had made to the Jews, wrested sway over Palestine from the Sassanian Persians and their former Jewish allies, and proscribed recitation of the daily Tefillah and Shema. Since they were allowed only to congregate in their synagogues on the morning of the Sabbath to recite the Amidah and associated piyyutim, the Hazzan or precentor adopted the subterfuge of smuggling the banned prayer in, intoning the first and last lines of the Shema in such away as to slip by the eavesdropping of government officials monitoring the session. Pirqoi ben Baboi repeated his stance of Yehudai Gaon that the raison d'être for such a novel practice had vanished with the Muslim conquest of Palestine, and the overthrow of Byzantine rule.

Charles Allan Shaw (16 February 1927 – 16 July 1989) was an Anglican priest in the last third of the 20th century.“Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 He was born in Westhoughton, Lancashire on 16 February 1927, educated at Bolton School and Christ's College, Cambridge and ordained after a period of study at Westcott House, Cambridge in 1951.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 After a curacy in Swinton he was Chaplain at Malvern College and then Vicar of St Ambrose, Pendleton, Greater Manchester He was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham and Succentor of Birmingham Cathedral from 1962 to 1967 when he became Dean of Bulawayo; and from 1969 its Archdeacon. Additionally Vicar general of Matabeleland from 1972, he returned to England three years later to become Precentor of Hereford Cathedral (one of its Residentiary Canons).

Theophilus Bolton, D.D. (1678-1744) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland in the 17th century.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. . He was born in County Mayo, and was the grandson of Richard Bolton, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1639 to 1648. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin,Raymond Refaussé, 'Bolton, Theophilus (1678–1744)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 2 Jan 2015 where he was elected a Scholar in 1695, and was ordained in 1703. He became Prebendary of MonmahenockSCAC in 1707; and Rector of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin in 1713. A contemporary of Jonathan Swift,Ricorso he was appointed Vicar general to the Archbishop of Dublin in 1721 and Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in 1722.

Most of the bequests were of liturgical items: his mitre and pastoral staff to his successor; his second best missal, osculatorium (a tablet designed to take the kiss of peace), and best chalice and paten, both gilt, the altar of St Chad in Lichfield Cathedral; vestments and crucifix to the High Altar; more vestments for Coventry Cathedral, Pipewell Abbey in Northamptonshire, the Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford; and to his own chantry at Great Stretton a substantial collection of vestments, silver chalice and paten, missal and thurible. The executors included Richard de Birmingham, William de Neuhagh, the Precentor,"Precentors of Lichfield" in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 10, Coventry and Lichfield Diocese Richard de Toppeclyve, the Archdeacon of Stafford, and John de Stretton, a canon of St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury. The will was proved on 10 April 1385 and the executors discharged on 8 November 1386.

Thomas Winter (died 1615) was a priest in Ireland in the early seventeenth century."A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 Winter was educated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford."Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714" Foster, J p1659: Oxford; OUP; 1891 He was Treasurer of Cashel from 1608 to 1614;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p50 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Precentor of Waterford"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p143 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Lismore"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p173 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 from 1609 to 1612. He was Archdeacon of Derry from 1610 until his deprivation in 1612;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p336 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Dean of Cloyne from 1612 until his death.

He became dean and precentor of Chichester on 29 April 1669, Clerk of the Closet to Charles II shortly afterwards (holding that post until the Glorious Revolution in December 1688). He was elected Bishop of Oxford in April 1671 and Bishop of Durham on 18 August 1674. He owed his rapid promotions to the Duke of York (later James VII & II), whose favour he had gained by secretly encouraging the duke's interest in the Roman Catholic Church. Crew baptised the Duke's daughter Princess Catherine in 1675 and was made a Privy Counsellor on 26 April 1676 He was present at the crucial Privy Council meeting in October 1678 where Titus Oates first revealed his great fabrication, the Popish Plot. After the accession of James II, Crew was also appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal on 28 December 1685,Bucholz, R.O. Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660-1837 Accessed 8 September 2014 staying in post until 1688.

In July 1209, Richard de Gerberoy, bishop of Amiens, founded the cure of Coullemelle (Colonmeles) from the dismembering of the Rocquencourt cure, at the request of Raoul de Clermont, of Foulque, Rocquencourt priest, of Osmond, Coullemelle vavasor and of the village inhabitants that were increasing in number. To this cure was attached the mense of Lord Raoul, located in the Bois (forest), as well as the menses of Fourquivillers (Focolviller) and of Bus Oserain. Saint-Nicolas church was pre-existing the foundation of the cure. The benedictine prior d’Elincourt (in the Oise region) was the precentor. The « Focolviller » quoted in this text is the same as the « Forsenviller » of a chart of 1146 in which Thierry, bishop of Amiens, expresses the rights and the privileges of the benedictin priory of Notre-Dame of Montdidier and gives the list of its belongings such as portions of the forest and of the fields of Fourquivillers.

Documents and materials, 4 Taras spent his childhood years in the village. On , Taras' sister Yaryna was born,Archives, fund 127, case 1407, part 3 and on —Maria.Archives, fund 127, case 1454, sheet 87 Once, young Taras went looking for "the iron pillars that hold up the sky" and got lost. Chumaks who met the boy took him with him to Kyrylivka.Osnova, 1862. Vol.3. 4-5Works. Vol.3. 167-168 On Taras' brother Yosyp was born.Archives, fund 127, case 1485, sheet 94 In the fall of 1822 Taras started to take some grammar classes at a local precentor (dyak) Sovhyr.Works in 10 volumes. Vol.3. 169-170"Odesa Herald", 1892. #226 At that time Shevchenko became familiar with Hryhoriy Skovoroda's works. During 1822-1828 Shevchenko painted horses and soldiers.Works in 10 volumes. Vol.7. Book 2. 347 On his older sister and nanny Kateryna married Anton Krasytskyi, a serf "from Zelena Dibrova".

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p767: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 King George II appointed him Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1746 but the chapter successfully argued that the Crown was not the patron, and he was dispossessed.Cotton 1849 p.334 He was successively Prebendary of Killaspugmullane in Cork Cathedral;”Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Vol I” Cotton, H p256: Dublin, Hodges,1850 Precentor of Elphin (1746–52);”Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Vol IV” Cotton, H p138: Dublin, Hodges,1850 Dean of Derry (1752–69);”Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae Vol III p334 (ibid) and Archdeacon of DerryJournal Article "The Estate of the Diocess of Derry.

Bernard, 1924: p. 8 Comyn's charter of 1191 or 1192, which allowed for a chapter of thirteen canons, of which three held special dignities (as chancellor, precentor and treasurer), was confirmed by a papal bull (of Pope Celestine III) within a year. The thirteen prebendaries attached to the church were provided with archepiscopal lands. Over time, a whole complex of buildings arose in the vicinity of the cathedral, including the Palace of the St Sepulchre (seat of the archbishop), and legal jurisdiction was divided between a Liberty controlled by the dean, around the cathedral, and a larger one belonging to the archbishop, adjacent. While it is not clear when precisely the church was further raised to the status of cathedral, a unique move in a city with an existing cathedral, it was probably after 1192, and Comyn's successor as Archbishop, Henry de Loundres, was elected in 1212 by the chapters of both Christ Church and St Patrick's, this election being recognised by Pope Innocent III.

James Allan Smith (also spelled Alan; 2 August 1841 – November 1918) was the fifth Dean of St David's.Although an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181-1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913 Smith was born into an ecclesiastical family in Pyecombe — his father was James Allan Smith, Rector of that parishWho was Who (1991) Who was who. A cumulated index 1897-1990, CD-ROM, London : A & C Black, — on 2 August 1841 and educated at Wadham College and ordained in 1864. He was initially Curate of Trinity Church, St Marylebone and then Vicar of Holy Trinity, Nottingham. Moving to Wales he was successively Vicar of Swansea, Rural Dean of East Gower, Vicar of Hay, Chancellor of St David’s Cathedral and Canon Residentiary before his elevation to the Deanery in 1904.

The Very Rev Albert William Parry (15 October 18741939 England and Wales Register – 18 September 1950) was a Welsh clergyman who served as the eighth DeanAlthough an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > "Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David's Cathedral, 1181-1981" St David's, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David'sWho was Who (1991) Who was who. A cumulated index 1897-1990, CD-ROM, London : A & C Black, between 1940 and 1949 and Editor of Y Llan and Church News, the newspaper of the Church in Wales. He was born in Carmel, Flintshire, Wales,1911 Wales Census and educated at St David's College, Lampeter and St Michael's Theological College, Llandaff. He was Curate of St John's Church, Cardiff and then lecturer, tutor and finally professor of educationOpen Library at St Luke's College, Exeter.

387-390 Before the year 1181 however the prior and canons had ceased to exist, and the nuns were making efforts to free themselves from immediate subjection to the abbot of Arrouaise; and after appeals from both parties to Pope Alexander III the matter was finally referred to the arbitration of Hugh of Lincoln. Robert of Bedford, the precentor of the cathedral, was sent to treat with the abbot of Missenden, who was acting as proctor to the abbot of Arrouaise; and the result of his negotiations was that Gervase set the nuns free for ever from subjection to the parent abbey, and yielded to them the two churches of Harrold and Brayfield, with all the other gifts of Sampson le Fort, on condition that they paid half a mark yearly to the abbot of Missenden. Thenceforward until the dissolution the convent was ruled by a prioress, having sometimes a warden or master, like other small houses of nuns, and at one time a few lay brothers.

He was conductor of "Barnby's Choir" from 1864, and in 1871 was appointed, in succession to Charles Gounod, conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, a post he held till his death. In 1875, he was precentor and director of music at Eton College, and in 1892 became principal of the Guildhall School of Music, receiving the honour of knighthood in July of that year. His works include an oratorio Rebekah, The Lord is King (Psalm 97), many services and anthems, and 246 hymn tunes (published in 1897 in one volume), as well as some partsongs and songs (among them, Now The Day Is Over, and the popular lullaby using Alfred, Lord Tennyson's words Sweet and Low) and some pieces for the pipe organ. He was largely instrumental in stimulating the love for Gounod's sacred music among the less educated part of the London public, although he displayed little practical sympathy with opera.

Although we know, from his diaries and correspondence, from Fowler, and from reports in the Press, that a number of his part-songs were performed by the CUMS, these are currently lost. Having graduated in 1847 as a Senior Optime, he was appointed to the curacy of Malton, North Yorkshire, in 1847. He was ordained Deacon at York Minster in January 1848. The following year he was appointed a minor canon of Durham Cathedral (an appointment which he held until his death),Cory, p. 66 and shortly thereafter to the office of precentor. In 1862 he relinquished the precentorship (to the dismay of Sir Frederick Ouseley)Cory, p. 66-67. on his appointment to the living of St. Oswald's, Durham, situated almost in the shadow of the Cathedral, where he remained until his death in 1876. Although his paternal grandfather and his father had been firmly of an evangelical persuasion,Cory, Chap. 2.

George Taylor Shillito Farquhar was an Anglican priest and author Amongst others he wrote "The Episcopal History of Perth", 1894; "Our Ancient Scottish Cathedrals", 1897; "The Church’s Year", 1904; "Musicians", 1908; "The History of the Lay Claims under the Scottish Bishops", 1911; "Three Bishops of Dunkeld", 1915; and "A Scottish Twelvemonth and Other Poems", 1923 > British Library web site accessed 19:18 GMT Friday 11 November 2011 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was educated at Keble College, Oxford “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and ordained in 1881.Multiple News Items The Dundee Courier & Argus (Dundee, Scotland), Wednesday, 15 June 1881; Issue 8707 He was Precentor of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark after which he was Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane"The Clergy List" London, Kelly’s, 1913 until his death on 30 July 1927.“Who was Who” (ibid) In 1890 George Farquhar published a book of sonnets.

The sermon was printed next year at Hampton's request, as 'a treatise tending to unity'; Leslie had proposed that no one should be allowed to go beyond seas for education, and that no popish schoolmaster should be allowed at home. Leslie did curate's duty at Drogheda from 1622 to 1626. He preached before Charles I at Windsor on 9 July 1625, and at Oxford the same year; and on 30 October, being then one of his majesty's chaplains in ordinary, he delivered 'a warning to Israel' in Christ Church, Dublin, dedicated to Lord-deputy Falkland. In 1627 Leslie again preached before the king at Woking, and in the same year he was made Dean of Down. In 1628 he was made precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, three other livings being added to the dignity, and in 1632 he became treasurer also, and he seems to have held all these preferments in addition to his deanery. Leslie was prolocutor of the Lower House during the Irish convocation of 1634, and came into immediate contact with Lord-deputy Wentworth.

Spero videre bona tm in terra (viucutiu ?) ("Here is buried John Beridge, priest, professor of theology, Precentor of the Cathedral of St Mary of Lincoln, and pastor and patron of this parish church, who in London gave back his spirit to God on the 12th day of May of the year of our Lord 1632, of his age the sixtieth. He selected as his wife Dorothy, daughter of Ferdinand Fielding, Esquire, from whom were born to him 3 daughters: Maria, Festina and Grodhilha, all of whom died before their father, and 10 sons: Basil I, William, Ferdinand, George, Basil II, Michael, James, Ignatius, Samuel, John, all of whom (with Basil senior and Michael excepted) together with his only wife he left surviving. I hope to see ...in earth...") showing the arms of Beridge (Argent, a saltire engrailed between four escallops sable) (Burke's General Armory, 1884) impaling: Argent, on a fess azure three lozenges or (Fielding, Earl of Denbigh), with a crescent for difference of Barkston, Lincolnshire, by his 2nd wife Susan Rutter.Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.

Thus he has composed music for five dramatic works, among others for "Antigone" by Sophokles, and "Hannele" by Hauptmann, and for six of David's Psalms. He has composed two symphonies, two string- quartets, five overtures, a pantomime suite, and various other orchestra pieces, the choral works "Absalon", "Thyra Danebod", "The Woman With the Eggs", "The Taking of Jericho", twelve cantatas for various occasions, ten organ fantasies, about fifty organ preludes, piano music, a ballad opera, choir pieces and songs for one voice and piano among these the oriental "Haifa-songs" and the cycle "Wanderung im Gebirge" by Lenau, superb things which with great applause were sung among other occasions at the composition evening in Copenhagen in February 1915. After 40 years, during which time he was knighted "Ridder af Dannebroge", he returned in 1915 to his native town and continued his composition activity and his work as editor of the "Danish organist and precentor association's" member periodical. He was married to Bertha Josephine Lund and together they had twelve children.

For a time he also undertook the role of precentor in a combination of duties which recognised his special interests in the areas of liturgy, church architecture and music, while also involving him in clergy formation and training and the work of the parishes in the diocese. Stancliffe was appointed Provost of Portsmouth in 1982Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debrett's) ) and his major work from then until 1993 was the completion and reordering of Portsmouth Cathedral, shaping its life and work to fulfil its primary function of supporting the Bishop of Portsmouth in his ministry. Alongside other duties in the Diocese of Portsmouth, he was vice-chairman of the governors of Portsmouth Grammar School, a governor of Chichester Theological College, a member of the governing bodies of the Southern Dioceses Ministerial Training Scheme and of Salisbury & Wells Theological College and chairman of the Southern Regional Institute. In July 1993, Stancliffe succeeded Colin James, Bishop of Winchester, as chairman of the Church of England's Liturgical Commission, a position which he held until 2005. He served on the commission from 1986.

Another enactment sought to make it a standard procedure during the Mussaf-prayer of Rosh Hashanah to make two prayers: the first, by the congregation praying silently, followed by a repetition of the prayer said aloud by the Shaliach Tzibbur (Prayer precentor). Maharitz would later adamantly oppose the enactment, since it sought to cancel the ancient tradition in Yemen in this regard in which it had always been a practice to make only one Mussaf-prayer. Another enactment concerned the seven benedictions mentioned by Rabbi Yosef Karo in his Shulḥan Arukh (Even Haʻezer 62:10), where he brings down a certain opinion which states that is not permissible for the groom and bride to be entertained in another person's house other than in his own house during the seven days of wedding festivities, unless he and his bride were to leave their own house or town for an extended period of time, in which case it is then permissible. The enactment is mentioned with regard to Iggereth Ha-Besoroth in Saleh (1979), vol.

The dean and chapter, with the consent of the Archbishop of Dublin, preside over the cathedral, with the dean as "first among equals" in chapter but holding a day-to-day authority, subject to the special roles of some other figures (the dean and chapter together are in a similar position to a rector of a parish). The chapter comprises the dean, precentor (who must be skilled in music), chancellor, treasurer, Archdeacons of Dublin and Glendalough and 12 canons, eight being clergy of the Diocese of Dublin and four clergy of the Diocese of Glendalough (the three most senior in order of appointment are known as the Prebendary of St Michael's, Prebendary of St Michan's and the Prebendary of St John's). (See Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin for more on the deans and the preceding priors.) The dean is appointed by the Archbishop of Dublin and, in an arrangement commenced in 1971, is also incumbent of the Christ Church Cathedral Group of Parishes, the day-to-day care of which is in the hands of a vicar appointed by a special board of patronage. The dean can appoint a deputy and also appoints the cathedral verger.

According to late traditions, Saint Clarus (Saint Clair), first Bishop of Nantes, was a disciple of Saint Peter. De la Borderie, however, has shown that the ritual of the Church of Nantes, drawn up by Helius the precentor in 1263, ignores the apostolic mission of Saint Clarus, and also that Saint Peter's nail in Nantes Cathedral was not brought there by Saint Clarus, but at a time subsequent to the invasions of the Northmen in the 10th century. He showed further that Saint Felix, writing with six other bishops in 567 to Saint Radegund, attributed to Saint Martin of Vertou the chief role in the conversion of the Nantais to Christianity, and that the traditions concerning the mission of Saint Clarus are later than 1400. The earliest list of the bishops of Nantes (made, according to Louis Duchesne, at the beginning of the 10th century) does not favour the thesis of a bishop of Nantes prior to Constantine I. The author of the Passion of the Nantes martyrs, Saints Donatian and Rogatian, places their death in the reign of Constantius Chlorus, and seems to believe that Rogatian could not be baptized, because the bishop was absent.

Edward Browne (1699–1777) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.""Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Brady, W.M. P444: London; Longmans; 1864 Browne was born in County Cork and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p102: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 Browne was ordained in 1749 and held incumbencies at Macloneigh and Ardnegihy. He was Vicar choral of Cork from 1749 to 1750;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p283 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Archdeacon of Ross from 1749 until his death."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p362 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 He was Precentor of Cork from 1750 to 1752;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p246 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Prebendary of Killaspugmullane in Cork Cathedral from 1752 until his death.

He was born at Somertown near Oxford, the son of the Rev. Stephen Phillips, precentor of Peterborough Cathedral. He was educated at Stratford and Peterborough Grammar Schools, and considered entering Queens' College, Cambridge on a minor scholarship to study classics; but he instead went to a London crammer to prepare for the civil service.J. P. Wearing, ‘Phillips, Stephen (1864–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 1 June 2009 In 1885, however, he moved to Wolverhampton to join his cousin F. R. Benson's dramatic company, and for six years he played various small parts. Stephen Phillips In 1890 a slender volume of verse was published at Oxford with the title Primavera, which contained contributions by him and by his cousin Laurence Binyon and others. In 1894 he published Eremus, a long poem of loose structure in blank verse of a philosophical complexion. In 1896 appeared Christ in Hades, forming with a few other short pieces one of the slim paper- covered volumes of Elkin Mathews's Shilling Garland. This poem caught the eye of the critics, and when it was followed by a collection of Poems in 1897 the writer's position as a new poet of exceptional gifts was generally recognized.

St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack. Peter Drelincourt (22 July 1644 in Paris - 7 March 1722 in Armagh),Armagh clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh was Dean of Armagh."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p33 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 He was the sixth son of Charles Drelincourt, minister of the reformed church in Paris, and graduated M.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, 1681, and LL.D. 1691."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p244: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 Having been appointed chaplain to the Duke of Ormonde, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, he became in 1681 precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p53 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 in 1683 Archdeacon of Leighlin;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p398 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and 28 February 1690–1 Dean of Armagh, retaining his archdeaconry, and holding at the same time the rectory of Armagh.

The Very Rev Carlyle Witton-Davies (10 June 1913 – 25 March 1993) was an eminent Anglican priest“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and scholar.Amongst others he translated Martin Buber’s “Hasidism”, (1948) and “The Prophetic Faith” (1949); made major contributions to the “Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church” (1957 edition) and “The Mission of Israel”, 1963 ; and wrote “Journey of a Lifetime” > British Library website accessed 19:58 GMT 18 April 2011 He was born the son of T. Witton-Davies, Professor of Hebrew at the University College of North Wales, Bangor and educated at Friars School, Bangor; University College of North Wales, Bangor; Exeter College, Oxford;and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1938Independent Obituary and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Buckley. From 1940 to 1944 he was Subwarden of St. Michael's College, Llandaff. From then until 1949 he was a Canon Residentiary at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem.Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947 In that year he became Dean and PrecentorAlthough an ancient foundation, before 1840 the senior residentiary cleric was the Precentor, and not a Dean, due to a complication during the dissolution of the monasteries > “Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, 1181-1981 / St David’s Cathedral, 1181-1981” St David’s, Gwasg yr Oriel Fach, 1981 of St David's.