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RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral Archive Report A Ashbee Abstract Archive report on the compilation of an index of the choristers organists and lay-clerks at Rochester Cathedral from records of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral To cite this report Ashbee A (2018) An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral Rochester Cathedral Research Guild archive report RCL18r10 To link to this article httpsrochestercathedralresearchguildorgreportsrcl18r10 Published online 13th May 2018 General Queries jacobscottrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
Produced by permission of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 40 International License Any views and opinions expressed in this work are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Dean and Chapter
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Contents
Section Page
1 Introduction 1 2 Index of records 1 3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving 1 4 Bibliography 26 5 Acknowledgements 26
1 Introduction
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2 Index of records 21 Choristers
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References 1679 William Davison Cooper (1956 5) -1684 William Popsley Cooper (1956 5) -1680 William Rolywell ( ) Cooper (1956 5) -1683 or 4 John Nash () Cooper (1956 5) -1680 Edward Dayton Cooper (1956 5)
-1679 or 80
Thomas Boothwell (Brockwell)
Cooper (1956 5)
1680 1682 Richard Henman Cooper (1956 5) 1680 1685 John Joy (Hoy) Cooper (1956 5) 1681 1693 James Henstridge Cooper (1956 5) 1681 Ullock Cooper (1956 5) 1681 1682 James Cocks Cooper (1956 5) 1681 1683 William Bates Cooper (1956 5) 1682 1685 William Kidd Cooper (1956 5) 1682- Thomas Rogers () Cooper (1956 5)
1684-1698
1698 Thomas Goorge (George)
Cooper (1956 5)
1682-1691
1691 George Effidge (Ffidge)
Cooper (1956 5)
1684- Phillip Lomaker (Honaker)
Cooper (1956 5)
1684-1692
1692 Robert Bowers Organist 1698-1704
Cooper (1956 5)
1685-1689
1689 Joseph Wright Cooper (1956 5)
1686- Herbert Head (Hoad) Cooper (1956 5)
1686-1687
1687 Roger Joanah (Joanes) Cooper (1956 5)
1687-1690
1690 Joseph Hix Cooper (1956 5)
1689-1693
1693 James George Cooper (1956 5)
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1689-1698
1698 John Spain (Spayne) Cooper (1956 5)
1689-1691
1691 Morrill Thurston Cooper (1956 5)
1690-1701
1701 Richard Walford (Wallford)
Cooper (1956 5)
1691-1692
1692 G - Hoskins Cooper (1956 5)
1691-1696
1696 Morris Head (Hoad) Cooper (1956 5)
1692-1705
1705 John Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 5)
1693-1698
1698 Xingsmill Walford Cooper (1956 5)
1694-1708
1708 Thomas Clark(e) Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 5)
1694-1705
1705 Thomas Spain (Spayne)
Cooper (1956 5)
1696-1701
1701 Joseph George Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1704
1704 Henry Clarke Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1706
1706 Charles George Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1706
1706 John Harding Cooper (1956 5)
1701-1703
1703 William Bowers Cooper (1956 5)
1702-1711
1711 John Osmotherly Cooper (1956 5)
1704-1709
1709 George Davyson (Davison)
Cooper (1956 6)
1704--1712
1712 Thomas Puckle (Cucklo)
Cooper (1956 6)
1705-1 708
1 708 William Legoe (Logoo) Cooper (1956 6)
1706-1713
1713 John Puckle (Cucklo) Cooper (1956 6)
1705-17 19
17 19 Edward Springfield Cooper (1956 6)
1705-1708
1708 William Stanley Cooper (1956 6)
1707-1710
1710 John Carnell Cooper (1956 6)
1708-1719
1719 Thomas Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1709-1714
1714 William Austin (Justin) Cooper (1956 6)
1711-1722
1722 Thomas Wills Cooper (1956 6)
1711-1718
1718 R Davis Cooper (1956 6)
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1712-1714
1714 John Ffisher Cooper (1956 6)
1712-1718
1718 John Bonson Cooper (1956 6)
1713-1714
1714 William Scudder Cooper (1956 6)
1714-1720
1720 Paul Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1727
1727 Daniel Clarkeuro Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1716
1716 William Gidley Cooper (1956 6)
1717-1721
1721 John Bullfinch Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1724
1724 Ffrancis Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1720
1720 Joseph Shaw Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1725
1725 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1722
1722 John Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1730
1730 Peter Rommoy (Romney Rumney)
Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1728
1728 Richard Couzens (Cousins)
Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 Thomas Osmotherly Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 John Morris Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1726
1726 Baldwin Choltenham Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1725
1725 William Taylor Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1730
1730 Thomas Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1732
1732 Arthur Gonnoll (Pannall Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1728
1728 John James Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1730
1730 John Valours (Valance) Cooper (1956 6)
1726-1729
1729 William Davis Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1730
1730 George Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1732
1732 William Burr Cooper (1956 6)
1728-1732
1732 Daniel Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1729-1732
1732 James Steward Cooper (1956 6)
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1730-1734
1734 William Holliday Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1738
1738 William Woodrow (W oodrouse)
Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1734
1734 John Eason Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 William Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 Thomas Mangleman Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1734
1734 Daniel Glover Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1737
1737 James Walker Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Woodrow Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Ponnall (Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1735
1735 Robert Cole Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1739
1739 Thomas Puckle Cooper (1956 6)
1734-1740
1740 David Whitehart Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1739
1739 John Whiteharj Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1740
1740 John Lucy Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1739
1739 Stephen Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1742
1742 James Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1746
1746 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 Robert Woodrow Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 William Hoskins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1747
1747 Parker Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1743
1743 Finias Lowry Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1747
1747 George Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1753
1753 Edward Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1747
1747 John Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1747
1747 Thomas Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1749
1749 Abraham Fowle Cooper (1956 7)
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1744-1751
1751 William Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1746-1753
1753 George White Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1749
1749 Gregory Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 John Longley Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 George Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1751
1751 Richard Stidstone Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1756
1756 Claudius Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1757
1757 Thomas Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1760
1760 John (Edward) Edwards
Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1753
1753 John Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1757
1757 Edward Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1755
1755 John Loach (Louch) Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1761
1761 Richard Bumott (Burnett)
Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1759
1759 Esau Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1754-1760
1760 William Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1756-1761
1761 Andrew Robics (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1766
1766 Richard How (Howe) Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1762
1762 William James Jones Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1761
1761 Matthew Webb Cooper (1956 7)
1759-1766
1766 George Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1760-1764
1764 George Cheshire Cooper (1956 7)
1761-1769
1769 Joseph How Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1764
1764 Thomas Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1766
1766 Richard Goodsall Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1768
1768 William Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1763-1768
1768 William Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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Contents
Section Page
1 Introduction 1 2 Index of records 1 3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving 1 4 Bibliography 26 5 Acknowledgements 26
1 Introduction
11
2 Index of records 21 Choristers
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References 1679 William Davison Cooper (1956 5) -1684 William Popsley Cooper (1956 5) -1680 William Rolywell ( ) Cooper (1956 5) -1683 or 4 John Nash () Cooper (1956 5) -1680 Edward Dayton Cooper (1956 5)
-1679 or 80
Thomas Boothwell (Brockwell)
Cooper (1956 5)
1680 1682 Richard Henman Cooper (1956 5) 1680 1685 John Joy (Hoy) Cooper (1956 5) 1681 1693 James Henstridge Cooper (1956 5) 1681 Ullock Cooper (1956 5) 1681 1682 James Cocks Cooper (1956 5) 1681 1683 William Bates Cooper (1956 5) 1682 1685 William Kidd Cooper (1956 5) 1682- Thomas Rogers () Cooper (1956 5)
1684-1698
1698 Thomas Goorge (George)
Cooper (1956 5)
1682-1691
1691 George Effidge (Ffidge)
Cooper (1956 5)
1684- Phillip Lomaker (Honaker)
Cooper (1956 5)
1684-1692
1692 Robert Bowers Organist 1698-1704
Cooper (1956 5)
1685-1689
1689 Joseph Wright Cooper (1956 5)
1686- Herbert Head (Hoad) Cooper (1956 5)
1686-1687
1687 Roger Joanah (Joanes) Cooper (1956 5)
1687-1690
1690 Joseph Hix Cooper (1956 5)
1689-1693
1693 James George Cooper (1956 5)
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1689-1698
1698 John Spain (Spayne) Cooper (1956 5)
1689-1691
1691 Morrill Thurston Cooper (1956 5)
1690-1701
1701 Richard Walford (Wallford)
Cooper (1956 5)
1691-1692
1692 G - Hoskins Cooper (1956 5)
1691-1696
1696 Morris Head (Hoad) Cooper (1956 5)
1692-1705
1705 John Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 5)
1693-1698
1698 Xingsmill Walford Cooper (1956 5)
1694-1708
1708 Thomas Clark(e) Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 5)
1694-1705
1705 Thomas Spain (Spayne)
Cooper (1956 5)
1696-1701
1701 Joseph George Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1704
1704 Henry Clarke Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1706
1706 Charles George Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1706
1706 John Harding Cooper (1956 5)
1701-1703
1703 William Bowers Cooper (1956 5)
1702-1711
1711 John Osmotherly Cooper (1956 5)
1704-1709
1709 George Davyson (Davison)
Cooper (1956 6)
1704--1712
1712 Thomas Puckle (Cucklo)
Cooper (1956 6)
1705-1 708
1 708 William Legoe (Logoo) Cooper (1956 6)
1706-1713
1713 John Puckle (Cucklo) Cooper (1956 6)
1705-17 19
17 19 Edward Springfield Cooper (1956 6)
1705-1708
1708 William Stanley Cooper (1956 6)
1707-1710
1710 John Carnell Cooper (1956 6)
1708-1719
1719 Thomas Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1709-1714
1714 William Austin (Justin) Cooper (1956 6)
1711-1722
1722 Thomas Wills Cooper (1956 6)
1711-1718
1718 R Davis Cooper (1956 6)
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1712-1714
1714 John Ffisher Cooper (1956 6)
1712-1718
1718 John Bonson Cooper (1956 6)
1713-1714
1714 William Scudder Cooper (1956 6)
1714-1720
1720 Paul Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1727
1727 Daniel Clarkeuro Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1716
1716 William Gidley Cooper (1956 6)
1717-1721
1721 John Bullfinch Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1724
1724 Ffrancis Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1720
1720 Joseph Shaw Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1725
1725 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1722
1722 John Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1730
1730 Peter Rommoy (Romney Rumney)
Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1728
1728 Richard Couzens (Cousins)
Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 Thomas Osmotherly Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 John Morris Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1726
1726 Baldwin Choltenham Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1725
1725 William Taylor Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1730
1730 Thomas Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1732
1732 Arthur Gonnoll (Pannall Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1728
1728 John James Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1730
1730 John Valours (Valance) Cooper (1956 6)
1726-1729
1729 William Davis Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1730
1730 George Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1732
1732 William Burr Cooper (1956 6)
1728-1732
1732 Daniel Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1729-1732
1732 James Steward Cooper (1956 6)
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1730-1734
1734 William Holliday Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1738
1738 William Woodrow (W oodrouse)
Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1734
1734 John Eason Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 William Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 Thomas Mangleman Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1734
1734 Daniel Glover Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1737
1737 James Walker Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Woodrow Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Ponnall (Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1735
1735 Robert Cole Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1739
1739 Thomas Puckle Cooper (1956 6)
1734-1740
1740 David Whitehart Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1739
1739 John Whiteharj Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1740
1740 John Lucy Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1739
1739 Stephen Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1742
1742 James Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1746
1746 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 Robert Woodrow Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 William Hoskins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1747
1747 Parker Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1743
1743 Finias Lowry Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1747
1747 George Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1753
1753 Edward Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1747
1747 John Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1747
1747 Thomas Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1749
1749 Abraham Fowle Cooper (1956 7)
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1744-1751
1751 William Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1746-1753
1753 George White Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1749
1749 Gregory Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 John Longley Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 George Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1751
1751 Richard Stidstone Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1756
1756 Claudius Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1757
1757 Thomas Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1760
1760 John (Edward) Edwards
Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1753
1753 John Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1757
1757 Edward Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1755
1755 John Loach (Louch) Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1761
1761 Richard Bumott (Burnett)
Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1759
1759 Esau Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1754-1760
1760 William Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1756-1761
1761 Andrew Robics (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1766
1766 Richard How (Howe) Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1762
1762 William James Jones Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1761
1761 Matthew Webb Cooper (1956 7)
1759-1766
1766 George Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1760-1764
1764 George Cheshire Cooper (1956 7)
1761-1769
1769 Joseph How Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1764
1764 Thomas Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1766
1766 Richard Goodsall Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1768
1768 William Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1763-1768
1768 William Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1689-1698
1698 John Spain (Spayne) Cooper (1956 5)
1689-1691
1691 Morrill Thurston Cooper (1956 5)
1690-1701
1701 Richard Walford (Wallford)
Cooper (1956 5)
1691-1692
1692 G - Hoskins Cooper (1956 5)
1691-1696
1696 Morris Head (Hoad) Cooper (1956 5)
1692-1705
1705 John Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 5)
1693-1698
1698 Xingsmill Walford Cooper (1956 5)
1694-1708
1708 Thomas Clark(e) Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 5)
1694-1705
1705 Thomas Spain (Spayne)
Cooper (1956 5)
1696-1701
1701 Joseph George Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1704
1704 Henry Clarke Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1706
1706 Charles George Cooper (1956 5)
1699-1706
1706 John Harding Cooper (1956 5)
1701-1703
1703 William Bowers Cooper (1956 5)
1702-1711
1711 John Osmotherly Cooper (1956 5)
1704-1709
1709 George Davyson (Davison)
Cooper (1956 6)
1704--1712
1712 Thomas Puckle (Cucklo)
Cooper (1956 6)
1705-1 708
1 708 William Legoe (Logoo) Cooper (1956 6)
1706-1713
1713 John Puckle (Cucklo) Cooper (1956 6)
1705-17 19
17 19 Edward Springfield Cooper (1956 6)
1705-1708
1708 William Stanley Cooper (1956 6)
1707-1710
1710 John Carnell Cooper (1956 6)
1708-1719
1719 Thomas Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1709-1714
1714 William Austin (Justin) Cooper (1956 6)
1711-1722
1722 Thomas Wills Cooper (1956 6)
1711-1718
1718 R Davis Cooper (1956 6)
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1712-1714
1714 John Ffisher Cooper (1956 6)
1712-1718
1718 John Bonson Cooper (1956 6)
1713-1714
1714 William Scudder Cooper (1956 6)
1714-1720
1720 Paul Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1727
1727 Daniel Clarkeuro Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1716
1716 William Gidley Cooper (1956 6)
1717-1721
1721 John Bullfinch Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1724
1724 Ffrancis Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1720
1720 Joseph Shaw Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1725
1725 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1722
1722 John Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1730
1730 Peter Rommoy (Romney Rumney)
Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1728
1728 Richard Couzens (Cousins)
Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 Thomas Osmotherly Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 John Morris Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1726
1726 Baldwin Choltenham Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1725
1725 William Taylor Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1730
1730 Thomas Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1732
1732 Arthur Gonnoll (Pannall Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1728
1728 John James Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1730
1730 John Valours (Valance) Cooper (1956 6)
1726-1729
1729 William Davis Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1730
1730 George Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1732
1732 William Burr Cooper (1956 6)
1728-1732
1732 Daniel Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1729-1732
1732 James Steward Cooper (1956 6)
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1730-1734
1734 William Holliday Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1738
1738 William Woodrow (W oodrouse)
Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1734
1734 John Eason Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 William Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 Thomas Mangleman Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1734
1734 Daniel Glover Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1737
1737 James Walker Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Woodrow Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Ponnall (Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1735
1735 Robert Cole Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1739
1739 Thomas Puckle Cooper (1956 6)
1734-1740
1740 David Whitehart Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1739
1739 John Whiteharj Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1740
1740 John Lucy Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1739
1739 Stephen Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1742
1742 James Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1746
1746 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 Robert Woodrow Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 William Hoskins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1747
1747 Parker Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1743
1743 Finias Lowry Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1747
1747 George Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1753
1753 Edward Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1747
1747 John Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1747
1747 Thomas Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1749
1749 Abraham Fowle Cooper (1956 7)
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1744-1751
1751 William Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1746-1753
1753 George White Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1749
1749 Gregory Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 John Longley Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 George Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1751
1751 Richard Stidstone Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1756
1756 Claudius Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1757
1757 Thomas Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1760
1760 John (Edward) Edwards
Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1753
1753 John Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1757
1757 Edward Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1755
1755 John Loach (Louch) Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1761
1761 Richard Bumott (Burnett)
Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1759
1759 Esau Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1754-1760
1760 William Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1756-1761
1761 Andrew Robics (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1766
1766 Richard How (Howe) Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1762
1762 William James Jones Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1761
1761 Matthew Webb Cooper (1956 7)
1759-1766
1766 George Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1760-1764
1764 George Cheshire Cooper (1956 7)
1761-1769
1769 Joseph How Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1764
1764 Thomas Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1766
1766 Richard Goodsall Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1768
1768 William Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1763-1768
1768 William Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
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1712-1714
1714 John Ffisher Cooper (1956 6)
1712-1718
1718 John Bonson Cooper (1956 6)
1713-1714
1714 William Scudder Cooper (1956 6)
1714-1720
1720 Paul Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1727
1727 Daniel Clarkeuro Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 6)
1715-1716
1716 William Gidley Cooper (1956 6)
1717-1721
1721 John Bullfinch Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1724
1724 Ffrancis Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1719-1720
1720 Joseph Shaw Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1725
1725 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1722
1722 John Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1730
1730 Peter Rommoy (Romney Rumney)
Cooper (1956 6)
1720-1728
1728 Richard Couzens (Cousins)
Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 Thomas Osmotherly Cooper (1956 6)
1721-1722
1722 John Morris Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1726
1726 Baldwin Choltenham Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1725
1725 William Taylor Cooper (1956 6)
1723-1730
1730 Thomas Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1732
1732 Arthur Gonnoll (Pannall Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1728
1728 John James Cooper (1956 6)
1725-1730
1730 John Valours (Valance) Cooper (1956 6)
1726-1729
1729 William Davis Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1730
1730 George Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1727-1732
1732 William Burr Cooper (1956 6)
1728-1732
1732 Daniel Clarke Cooper (1956 6)
1729-1732
1732 James Steward Cooper (1956 6)
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1730-1734
1734 William Holliday Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1738
1738 William Woodrow (W oodrouse)
Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1734
1734 John Eason Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 William Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 Thomas Mangleman Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1734
1734 Daniel Glover Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1737
1737 James Walker Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Woodrow Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Ponnall (Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1735
1735 Robert Cole Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1739
1739 Thomas Puckle Cooper (1956 6)
1734-1740
1740 David Whitehart Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1739
1739 John Whiteharj Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1740
1740 John Lucy Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1739
1739 Stephen Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1742
1742 James Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1746
1746 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 Robert Woodrow Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 William Hoskins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1747
1747 Parker Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1743
1743 Finias Lowry Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1747
1747 George Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1753
1753 Edward Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1747
1747 John Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1747
1747 Thomas Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1749
1749 Abraham Fowle Cooper (1956 7)
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1744-1751
1751 William Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1746-1753
1753 George White Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1749
1749 Gregory Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 John Longley Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 George Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1751
1751 Richard Stidstone Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1756
1756 Claudius Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1757
1757 Thomas Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1760
1760 John (Edward) Edwards
Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1753
1753 John Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1757
1757 Edward Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1755
1755 John Loach (Louch) Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1761
1761 Richard Bumott (Burnett)
Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1759
1759 Esau Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1754-1760
1760 William Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1756-1761
1761 Andrew Robics (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1766
1766 Richard How (Howe) Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1762
1762 William James Jones Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1761
1761 Matthew Webb Cooper (1956 7)
1759-1766
1766 George Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1760-1764
1764 George Cheshire Cooper (1956 7)
1761-1769
1769 Joseph How Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1764
1764 Thomas Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1766
1766 Richard Goodsall Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1768
1768 William Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1763-1768
1768 William Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1730-1734
1734 William Holliday Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1738
1738 William Woodrow (W oodrouse)
Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1734
1734 John Eason Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 William Hull Cooper (1956 6)
1731-1732
1732 Thomas Mangleman Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1734
1734 Daniel Glover Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1737
1737 James Walker Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Woodrow Cooper (1956 6)
1732-1740
1740 George Ponnall (Pennall)
Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1735
1735 Robert Cole Cooper (1956 6)
1733-1739
1739 Thomas Puckle Cooper (1956 6)
1734-1740
1740 David Whitehart Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1739
1739 John Whiteharj Cooper (1956 7)
1735-1740
1740 John Lucy Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1739
1739 Stephen Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1737-1742
1742 James Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1746
1746 Richard Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 Robert Woodrow Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1743
1743 William Hoskins Cooper (1956 7)
1739-1747
1747 Parker Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1743
1743 Finias Lowry Cooper (1956 7)
1740-1747
1747 George Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1753
1753 Edward Clarke Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1741-1747
1747 John Higgins Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1747
1747 Thomas Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1744-1749
1749 Abraham Fowle Cooper (1956 7)
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1744-1751
1751 William Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1746-1753
1753 George White Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1749
1749 Gregory Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 John Longley Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 George Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1751
1751 Richard Stidstone Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1756
1756 Claudius Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1757
1757 Thomas Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1760
1760 John (Edward) Edwards
Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1753
1753 John Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1757
1757 Edward Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1755
1755 John Loach (Louch) Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1761
1761 Richard Bumott (Burnett)
Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1759
1759 Esau Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1754-1760
1760 William Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1756-1761
1761 Andrew Robics (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1766
1766 Richard How (Howe) Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1762
1762 William James Jones Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1761
1761 Matthew Webb Cooper (1956 7)
1759-1766
1766 George Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1760-1764
1764 George Cheshire Cooper (1956 7)
1761-1769
1769 Joseph How Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1764
1764 Thomas Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1766
1766 Richard Goodsall Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1768
1768 William Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1763-1768
1768 William Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1744-1751
1751 William Edwards Cooper (1956 7)
1746-1753
1753 George White Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1749
1749 Gregory Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 John Longley Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1752
1752 George Hickman Cooper (1956 7)
1747-1751
1751 Richard Stidstone Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1756
1756 Claudius Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1749-1757
1757 Thomas Newland Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1760
1760 John (Edward) Edwards
Cooper (1956 7)
1751-1753
1753 John Wilford Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1757
1757 Edward Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1752-1755
1755 John Loach (Louch) Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1761
1761 Richard Bumott (Burnett)
Later a Lay-clerk
Cooper (1956 7)
1753-1759
1759 Esau Randall Cooper (1956 7)
1754-1760
1760 William Hogsflesh Cooper (1956 7)
1756-1761
1761 Andrew Robics (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1766
1766 Richard How (Howe) Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1762
1762 William James Jones Cooper (1956 7)
1757-1761
1761 Matthew Webb Cooper (1956 7)
1759-1766
1766 George Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1760-1764
1764 George Cheshire Cooper (1956 7)
1761-1769
1769 Joseph How Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1764
1764 Thomas Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1766
1766 Richard Goodsall Cooper (1956 7)
1762-1768
1768 William Brand Cooper (1956 7)
1763-1768
1768 William Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1764-1772
1772 John Church ward Cooper (1956 7)
1765-1768
1768 Henry Robins (Robbins)
Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 Thomas Brown Cooper (1956 7)
1767-1772
1772 George Boyman Sampson
Cooper (1956 7)
1768-1772
1772 George Reed Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1776
1776 Robert Bristow Cooper (1956 7)
1769-1772
1772 George Frager Cooper (1956 7)
1772-1776
1776 Andrew Vigeon Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1776
1776 William McCloud Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1779
1779 Claudius Hogsflesh Jnr
Cooper (1956 8)
1772-1772
1772 John Gorham Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 John Golding Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 George Osbourn (Osborne)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1777
1777 Alexander Lovett (Luffett)
Cooper (1956 8)
1773-1776
1776 Owen Brand (Bland) Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Christopher Brand Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 John Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1779
1779 Daniel Bunce Cooper (1956 8)
1777-1781
1781 William Bromley Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 John (James) Webb Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1783
1783 Samuel Payne Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Richard Burnett Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1781
1781 Benjamin Collins Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Samuel Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1780-1785
1785 Richard Middleton Cooper (1956 8)
1781-1785
1785 Charles How (Howe) Cooper (1956 8)
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1782-1783
1783 Edward Hall Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1785
1785 William Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1783-1789
1789 George Clark Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1788
1788 David Bradley Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1786
1786 Moses Roots Cooper (1956 8)
1784-1785
1785 James Haite Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1786
1786 Samuel Lightbody Cooper (1956 8)
1785-1790
1790 William Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 William Simcock Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Thomas Cable Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Henry Pluckwell Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1789
1789 Thomas (John) Kennard
Cooper (1956 8)
1786-1787
1787 Stephen Goodwin Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1788
1788 James Weekes Cooper (1956 8)
1787-1789
1789 Peter Brames Cooper (1956 8)
1788-1794
1794 Thomas Bathurst Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 John Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Titmis Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1795
1795 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1790
1790 James Wilkie Cooper (1956 8)
1789-1794
1794 William Turner Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1790-1796
1796 Richard Burnett Jnr Son of R Burnett (1753-61)
Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1795
1795 Thomas Dawson Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1797
1797 William Robinson Jnr Cooper (1956 8)
1791-1794
1794 John Robinson Cooper (1956 8)
1794-1796
1796 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 8)
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1795-1797
1797 Charles Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1797
1797 Josiah Carter Cooper (1956 8)
1795-1800
1800 Henry Smith Cooper (1956 8)
1796-1800
1800 William Hodge Cooper (1956 9)
1796-1801
1801 John Turner Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 John Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1798
1798 Thomas Downs Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1800
1800 Edward Coney Cooper (1956 9)
1797-1804
1804 Thomas mith Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1802
1802 Richard Dickinson Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1801
1801 Edward Blackfield Died while a chorister
Cooper (1956 9)
1798-1799
1799 Joseph Pearce Cooper (1956 9)
1799-1804
1804 Charles Hedgecock Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 John Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1805
1805 George Peal Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1808
1808 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1801-1807
1807 Thomas Winterton Cooper (1956 9)
1802-1807
1807 James (William) Winterton
Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1808
1808 John Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1803-1810
1810 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1806
1806 Edward Godden Cooper (1956 9)
1805-1807
1807 Thomas Fletcher Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1812
1812 Abraham Relf (Ralph) Cooper (1956 9)
1806-1807
1807 Henry How Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1816
1816 William Broad Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1818
1818 George Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1808-1814
1814 James Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1808-1810
1810 George Cronk Cooper (1956 9)
1809-1812
1812 Charles Binder Cooper (1956 9)
1810-1819
1819 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1815
1815 William Hudson Cooper (1956 9)
1811-1819
1819 Henry Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1812-1821
1821 James Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1813-1820
1820 William Timms Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1820
1820 John Thomas David Whiffen
Cooper (1956 9)
1815-1819
1819 Henry Wickenden Cooper (1956 9)
1816-1823
1823 Edward Noakes Cooper (1956 9)
1818-1825
1825 George Cox Cooper (1956 9)
1819-1825
1825 Thomas Down Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1831
1831 Thomas Whiffen Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1820-1825
1825 Henry Smith Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1826
1826 William Howard Cooper (1956 9)
1821-1829
1829 Charles Burnett Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1822-1827
1827 George Chambers Cooper (1956 9)
1823-1825
1825 Thomas French Jnr Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1826
1826 Henry Bourne Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 John Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1833
1833 James Balcomb Cooper (1956 9)
1826-1832
1832 William Miles Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1833
1833 James Down Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1835
1835 William Smith Cooper (1956 9)
1827-1834
1834 Alfred Clarke Cooper (1956 10)
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1829-1836
1836 William Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1831-1838
1838 Thomas Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1836
1836 Swann Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1832-1837
1837 Charles Down Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Alfred Sole Cooper (1956 10)
1833-1838
1838 Charles Ford Cooper (1956 10)
1834-1838
1838 Robert Smith Cooper (1956 10)
1835-1842
1842 Edward Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1842
1842 Charles (Edward) Fre1048695ch
Cooper (1956 10)
1836-1845
1845 Robert Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1837-1843
1843 George Whiffin (Whiffen)
Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Alfred Staton Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1843
1843 Thomas Blackwell Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1846
1846 William Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1838-1845
1845 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1847
1847 Thomas Stokes Cooper (1956 10)
1842-1850
1850 Thomas Whiffen the younger
Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1848
1848 George Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1847
1847 John Hills (Hill) Cooper (1956 10)
1843-1845
1845 Jabez Garrett Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1847
1847 James Whiting Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1849
1849 James Startup Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1846
1846 Thomas Rice Cooper (1956 10)
1844-1848
1848 Thomas Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1845-1887
1887 William Makepeace (Lay-clerk) Headmaster Choir School
Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1850
1850 John William Cole Cooper (1956 10)
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1846-1851
1851 Frederick Stroud Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1848
1848 William Oram Cooper (1956 10)
1846-1847
1847 Athelstan Lewis Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1852
1852 John Gregory Bartlett Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Richard Hunt Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1848
1848 Edward Greenfield Cooper (1956 10)
1847-1851
1851 Jesse Watson Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1853
1853 William Stone Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1 49 1 49 Alfred Cox Cooper (1956 10)
1848-1854
1854 James Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Philip Armes
MA Mus Doc FRCO Chorister at Norwich Cathedral prior to Rochester Son of P Armes Lay-clerk Asst to J L Hopkins Organist Chichester Cathedral 1861-62 and of Durham Cathedral - 1862-1907 Died 10th February 1908 Tablet in Durham Cathedral
Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1851
1851 Stephen Austin Pearce Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1852
1852 William Sweet Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 George Cole Cooper (1956 10)
1849-1850
1850 Joseph Wilkinson Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Edward John Buckingham
Cooper (1956 10)
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1850-1854
1854 William Humphries (Humphreys)
Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1851
1851 James Makepeace Cooper (1956 10)
1850-1856
1856 Gideon Cockaday Cooper (1956 10)
1851-1857
1857 Thomas Benjamin Bottle
Son of a verger
Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1858
1858 Edwin John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1853
1853 William Skinner Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1857
1857 Jabez Read Cooper (1956 11)
1851-1852
1852 John William Newman Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 John Frederick Bridge
CVO Mus Doc FRCO Son of John Bridge Lay-clerk Organist Manchester Cathedral 1869-75 and of Westminster Abbey 1882-1918 Knighted 1897 Died 18th March 1924 Memorial tablet in Cloisters Westminster Abbey
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1858
1858 Thomas Samuel Buckingham
Cooper (1956 11)
1852-1859
1859 George Jarrett Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1858
1858 Charles Cox Cooper (1956 11)
1853-1860
1860 Richard Walter Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1859
1859 Edward Henry Williams
Cooper (1956 11)
1854-1861
1861 Alfred Alexander
Mus Bac Asst to John Hopkins Organist St Michaels
Cooper (1956 11)
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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College Tenbury 1874-77 and of St Johns Episcopal Church 1 Edinburgh 1896-1914
1856-1859
1859 William Miles Jnr Cooper (1956 11)
1856-1858
1858 Richard Mount Coles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 James Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1857-1861
1861 Joseph Maas Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 William Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William Terry Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1861
1861 William John Crow Cooper (1956 11)
1858-1862
1862 Charles William Chapman
Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1862
1862 Henry Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1859-1865
1865 Charles William Raymont
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1860
1860 George Arrago Edwards
Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1864
1864 John Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 James Edward Killick Cooper (1956 11)
1860-1865
1865 Bernard John Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 Joseph Hamden Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Thomas Ruck Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Daniel Joseph Wood Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1864
1864 Henry William Swan Cooper (1956 11)
1861-1866
1866 William Henry Mumford
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1865
1865 William Charles Woodward Makepeace
Cooper (1956 11)
1862-1866
1866 Thomas Harcourt Cooper (1956 11)
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1862-1867
1867 Joseph Cox Bridge
Brother of J F Bridge Asst to John Hopkins Organi t Exeter College Oxford 1875-76 and of Chester Cathedral 1877-1925 MA Mus Doc FSA FRCO Died at St Albans 29th May 1929 Memorial tablet in Chester Cathedral There is a fund to his memory which helps the further education of Chester ex-choristers
Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1868
1868 Alfred Kingsford Cooper (1956 11)
1864-1866
1866 Walter Stubbs Woodger
Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Bevil George Waghom Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 Henry Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1865-1868
1868 John H Hooper Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1872
1872 Samuel Phillips Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1867
1867 Thomas Tenant Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 George Sturla Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 Arthur Alfred Saunders
Cooper (1956 11)
1866-1870
1870 John Newsome Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 William King Cooper (1956 11)
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1867-1869
1869 Henry Nye Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1870
1870 Thomas Cuckney Cooper (1956 11)
1867-1871
1871 Richard Edward Miles Cooper (1956 11)
1868-1871
1871 George Hackney Cooper (1956 12)
1868-1873
1873 Albert John Seager Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Richard William Jones Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1871
1871 Charles Jesse Pritchard Cooper (1956 12)
1869-1873
1873 Walter Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1874
1874 Edward Milton Small Cooper (1956 12)
1870-1873
1873 Ernest Edward Banes Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Richard Denton Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 George Robert Bannister
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1873
1873 Walter Joseph Tomey Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1874
1874 Thomas Brooks
Chairman OCA 1920-1933 Died May 1934
Cooper (1956 12)
1871-1876
1876 Harry FO le Small Cooper (1956 12)
1872-1876
1876 Edward Taffs Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 George Tennant Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1878
1878 William Cuckney Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1877
1877 Alfred Thomas Skinner Cooper (1956 12)
1873-1875
1875 Henry George Best Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1874
1874 William Muggeridge Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Charles Anstey Broad Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1878
1878 Ernest John Pierce Orpin
Cooper (1956 12)
1874-1876
1876 John Charles Scullard Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1877
1877 Henry Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1875-1877
1877 Frank Lander How Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1880
1880 Robert William Colbert Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1878
1878 Henry Lawrence Stevens
Cooper (1956 12)
1875-1879
1879 Richard Thomas Collar Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 William Kingsford Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1880
1880 Ernest Edward Neaves Cooper (1956 12)
1876-1879
1879 William Ford Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1882
1882 Robert William Tuffnell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1879
1879 William Thomas Mantell
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Joseph Lovering
Cooper (1956 12)
1877-1881
1881 William Edward Colbert
Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1882
1882 William John Collins Cooper (1956 12)
1878-1884
1884 Percy William Broad Died 25th December 1950
Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 Ernest Albert King Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1881
1881 William Bradley Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1884
1884 Henry Matthews Cooper (1956 12)
1879-1883
1883 Charles George Gibson Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Henry Kidd Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1884
1884 Alfred Stanley Dale Cooper (1956 12)
1880-1885
1885 John Brindley Parker Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1884
1884 Frederick Ernest Daniels
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1883
1883 George Frederick Hopkins
Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1887
1887 Ernest James Newman Cooper (1956 12)
1887-1895
1895 Percy W Talbot Headmaster Cooper (1956 12)
1881-1885
1885 William John Hitterley Cooper (1956 12)
1882-1887
1887 Arthur u kney Cooper (1956 13)
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1883-1886
1886 Ern t Fillbrook Smith Cooper (1956 13)
1883-1887
1887 Harold ymour Ring Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 N e1 on William Colegate
Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 John George Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Ernest Dal Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1887
1887 William Frank Caddy Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1889
1889 Charl Thoma Outram Cooper (1956 13)
1884-1888
1888 William John Usborn Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1888
1888 Ro r Chari s Edwards Cooper (1956 13)
1885-1886
1886 La wr nc Stanley Butler Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 L vi John Thomas Millhouse
Cooper (1956 13)
1886-1888
1888 Rob rt George Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1889
1889 Samu 1 Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1890
1890 Chari P el H Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1888
1888 William Hobbs Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1891
1891 Robert Henry Cooper Cooper (1956 13)
1887-1892
1892 William Glanville Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Alb rt Davey Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1889
1889 Albert Jarvis Cooper (1956 13)
1888-189i 189i Percy Alfred Talbot Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Cyril H Neaves Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1893
1893 William Phipps Cooper (1956 13)
1888-1892
1892 Frank William Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Taylor Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Alfred John Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1889-1893
1893 Arthur Wyatt Matthews
Cooper (1956 13)
1890-1892
1892 Thomas Philip Whiston
Cooper (1956 13)
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1890-1895
1895 Ralph William Henry Taylor
Cooper (1956 13)
1891-1894
1894 Harry James Peach Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry West Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1894
1894 Charles Dressler Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Henry Hollins Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1895
1895 Walter J Cornford Cooper (1956 13)
1892-1897
1897 Henry (Harry) S Hopkins
Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1895
1895 George Tufhell Mallam Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Norman Johnson Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1896
1896 Ernest A Auste Cooper (1956 13)
1893-1897
1897 Robert Way Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1897
1897 William Edward Nash Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1899
1899 Archibald Henry Prior Cooper (1956 13)
1894-1895
1895 Edward Stevens Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1897
1897 David Nye Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1907
1907 Rev Edward Jackson Nash
Headmaster Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1900
1900 Leonard Keene Cooper (1956 13)
1895-1899
1899 Harry Tong Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 Sidney Turner Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1900
1900 Sidney Alfred Ruck Cooper (1956 13)
1896-1899
1899 George Ellis Cooper (1956 14)
1800-1899
1899 William George Weldon Burch
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1891048695
189 Leslie Andrews Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1899
1899 Frederick Norman Scholfield Andrews
Brother of L Andrews
Cooper (1956 14)
1897-1002
1002 Edward Hubert Cecil Scoones
Cooper (1956 14)
1898-1899
1899 Eustace Vernon Leney Cooper (1956 14)
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
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KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
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by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
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LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1898-1903
1903 Thomas Henry Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1899--1901
1901 George Bell Died 6th March 1950
Cooper (1956 14)
1899-19ru 19ru Harry William Hewitt Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Sidney Keene Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Frank Jepson Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Cyril Mitchell Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1903
1903 Laurence Arthur Leech Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 Edgar Hartnell Hayter Cooper (1956 14)
1899-1902
1902 James H Kidd Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edgar Walter Hoar Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Edwin Sidney Forster Cooper (1956 14)
1900-1904
1904 Harold George Cooper Cooper (1956 14)
1901-1902
1902 Cyril Herbert Bates Dibley
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1902
1902 Stanley Charles Dibley Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Samuel Reynolds Atwood
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1907
1907 Frederick Gunton Robinson
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1903
1903 Charles John Lambkin Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Harry Bell Brother of G Bell
Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1905
1905 Ernest Vivian Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1904
1904 Frank Simmo1048695s Cooper (1956 14)
1902-1906
1906 Amos Herbert Scoones Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Bertie Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1905
1905 Howard Castle
Killed on Active Service at Gallipoli 1915
Cooper (1956 14)
1903-1909
1909 Harold Albert Brand
Killed on Active Service 1914-18 War 9th September 1916 Name
Cooper (1956 14)
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
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on one of the bells and on Kings School Memorial in Lady Chapel
1904-1907
1907 Stanley James Eastmead
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Norman Henry William Farr
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1909
1909 Charles Cyril Newnham
Cooper (1956 14)
1904-1905
1905 Walter Turney Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1907
1907 George Frederick William Cook
Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1910
1910 John Archibald Durling Cooper (1956 14)
1905-1911
1911 Eric Jonathan Winfield Tully
Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1907
1907 Kenneth Coombs Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1910
1910 Archibald P Philpot Cooper (1956 14)
1906-1909
1909 Stanley Burt Spillett Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Cyril B Peters Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1911
1911 Alfred Victor Oxford Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1908
1908 William George Trueman
Cooper (1956 14)
1907-1909
1909 Rev Hamilton Smyth Cobb
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1911
1911 Hubert George Collins Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1913
1913 Albert Edward Lemon Cooper (1956 14)
1908-1912
1912 Frederick Cuthbert Hickson
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Stuart Thomas James Cuckney
Cooper (1956 14)
1909-1911
1911 Cecil Wood Cooper (1956 15)
1909-1913
1913 Rev Oscar Hardman Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Bertram Platts Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1913
1913 Frederick William Salmon
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1914
1914 Charles Walter Edwards
Cooper (1956 14)
1910-1911
1911 Frank Belsey Cooper (1956 14)
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1911-1913
1913 George Cecil Reed Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1913
1913 Charles Edward Durling
Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1916
1916 Cyril Bes Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1914
1914 Kenneth John Moyse Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1912
1912 Hugh Hickson Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 Reginald Jam Costen Cooper (1956 14)
1911-1915
1915 John Norman D Thorpe
Cooper (1956 14)
1912-1914
1914 Edward Charles Alexander Firman
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1917
1917 Harvey Albert Henry Coles
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1916
1916 Arnold Thomas Maxted
Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Percy William Whitlock
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Cecil Wilson Emms Cooper (1956 14)
1913-1918
1918 Rev William Edgar Morgan
Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1916
1916 Arthur Brown
MBE Chief Commissioner for Scouts Nigeria 1937-61
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1918
1918 John Edwin Allchin Died July 1924
Cooper (1956 14)
1914-1917
1917 Frank John Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1917
1917 Alfred George Stephen Spinks
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Francis Douglas Jeffery Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Cyril Richard Thompson
Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1919
1919 Ronald Clifford Darby Cooper (1956 14)
1915-1916
1916 Rev George Barrington-Baker
Acting Headmaster
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1917
1917 Ronald Charles Albert Bolt
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1918
1918 William Smith Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Frederick Percy Marchant
Cooper (1956 14)
1916-1919
1919 Leslie Gordon Farr Cooper (1956 14)
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1916-1920
1920 Leslie George Denniss Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1922
1922 Leonard Trotter Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Laurence Davis Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1919
1919 Donald James Pharoah Cooper (1956 14)
1917-1918
1918 Joseph Herbert Freestone
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Reginald Herbert Langdon
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1922
1922 Ernest Mathew Butter Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Gerald Cuckney Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Thomas Guy Hindell Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1919
1919 Rev Fred Harrison Headmaster to Yor
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1921
1921 Ian Stuart Cranfield Swoffer
Cooper (1956 14)
1918-1924
1924 Leslie Eric Wood Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1923
1923 James Alfred Levett Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 William John Wright Cooper (1956 14)
1919-1937
1937 Rev Rupert Johnstone Headmaster Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1928
1928 John Hemy Coe Cooper (1956 14)
1920-1925
1925 Bernard Arthur Goodwin
Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1922
1922 Guy Philip Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1920-1925
1925 Stanley Butter Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1925
1925 Gordon Douglas Robinson
Cooper (1956 15)
1921-1923
1923 Gerald Sidney Smart Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 Sidney Sefton Moore Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1926
1926 Robert Percy Tong Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1924
1924 John William Ruffell Cooper (1956 15)
1922-1927
1927 Ernest Frederick Marsh
Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1925
1925 Stuart Bertram Blackman
Cooper (1956 15)
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1923-1926
1926 Kenneth Frederick Day Cooper (1956 15)
1923-1926
1926 Francis John Stone Kendall
Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1925
1925 Harry Gale Cooper (1956 15)
1924-1928
1928 Frank Victor Smith Cooper (1956 15)
1924-192S
192S Jack Wright Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1928
1928 Arnold Hewitt Buck Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1926
1926 Arthur Ernest Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1927
1927 Eric Davies Faster Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 James Peter Burney Cooper (1956 15)
1925-1929
1929 Roy George Walter Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1930
1930 Victor Henry Yates Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1927
1927 Sidney Charles Mason Warne
Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1928
1928 Ronald Swaisland Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1228
1228 Hugh Reginald Taylor Cooper (1956 15)
1926-1929
1929 Reginald Littlejohn Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1930
1930 Allen Robert Treacher Cooper (1956 15)
1927-1931
1931 Cyril Percival Worsley Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1930
1930 Stuart Fletcher Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Philip Faulkner Nichols Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Cyril Herbert Newman Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Frederick Charles Taylor
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Stanley Albert Simpson
Cooper (1956 15)
1928-1931
1931 Norman Alan Thomas Tanner
Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1932
1932 Roy John Trett Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1930
1930 Frank Charles Kemp Cooper (1956 15)
1929-1934
1934 George James Gould Phillips
Cooper (1956 15)
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1930-1938
1938 John Gilpin Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1933
1933 Edwin Bell
Son of G Bell Kings Scholarship 193$
Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1934
1934 Joseph Harold Chater Cooper (1956 15)
1930-1932
1932 Alfred Richardson Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1931
1931 Louis Arthur Thomas Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Charles Douglas Brooker
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1933
1933 George Henry James Blackmore
FRCO Organ scholarship Cinema organist
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1932
1932 Roy Frederick Whattler
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Allen Edward Matthews
Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Dennis John Cook Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1934
1934 Herbert Chiles Cooper (1956 15)
1931-1935
1935 Donald Whattler Cooper (1956 15)
1932-1935
1935 Raymond Morris Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Cyril Larkin Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 James Souter Cooper (1956 17)
1932-1935
1935 Oliver John Russell Cooper (1956 17)
1933-1936
1936 Alan Bruce Carden Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Cyril Herbert Yeomans Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Gordon Ross Walter Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1936
1936 Trevor Lee Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1938
1938 Peter Kennedy Hopper Cooper (1956 17)
1934-1937
1937 John Robert McLaren Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1936
1936 Alexander Graham Clark
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1937
1937 Maurice George Llewellyn
Cooper (1956 17)
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1935-1937
1937 Anthony Vance Galloway
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1938
1938 Stephen Franklin Roberts
Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 David John Bradley Cooper (1956 17)
1935-1939
1939 Cecil Thomas Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Leslie Charles Springett
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Cyril John Baker Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1939
1939 Harry Gaston Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1937
1937 Norman Henry Maxwell
Cooper (1956 17)
1936-1940
1940 Geoffrey Hugh Briggs
Organ scholarship 1940 Singing scholar St Johnsmiddot College Cambridge
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Alan McLeod Nash Cooper (1956 17)
1937-198 198 Ernest Edmund Richard Williams
Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1940
1940 Eric Edwin Bell Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Cecil G Roberts Cooper (1956 17)
1937-1939
1939 Ian Benjamin Bishop Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kenneth ET Jury Cooper (1956 17)
1938-1940
1940 Kerneth L Moss Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Brian Herbert Latham Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1940
1940 Aubrey Coombes Cooper (1956 17)
1939-1941
1941 John Harpum Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John Michael Douglas Anderson
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 Bernard G Brush Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 John A Clarke
Killed in road accident while a chorister 12th March 1944
Cooper (1956 17)
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1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 28 of 38
1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 27 of 38
1942-1944
1944 Christopher de P Henriques
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1944
1944 Norman Kenneth Horwood
Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Peter John Lloyd Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1946
1946 George Richard Nelson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Neville N Palmer Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1940
1940 David Gerald Robinson Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1947
1947 Cyril John Rye Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1948
1948 Eric Alan Blatchly Cooper (1956 17)
1942-1945
1945 Ian K Prince Cooper (1956 17)
1944-1949
1949 Michael William Perrymal)
Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 Stuart John Robbie Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1946
1946 Frank E Smith Cooper (1956 18)
1944-1949
1949 John Robert Hammond
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 Christopher Francis Richard Cheshire
Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1948
1948 John Alec Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1945-1946
1946 Colin W Riley Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1947
1947 Edward Royston Harris Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1949
1949 Thomas David Gurney Cooper (1956 18)
1946-1948
1948 Michael Leslie Nye Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1949
1949 Roland Horace Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1948
1948 Douglas Brian Kirkpatrick
Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 Robert Graham Gagg Cooper (1956 18)
1947-1950
1950 John Norman Price Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1949
1949 Lionel Medhurst Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 David George Howlett Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1951
1951 Richard Alfred Bosworth
Cooper (1956 18)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 28 of 38
1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
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1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
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8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
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Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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1948-1952
1952 Kenneth Paul Frederick Butcher
Cooper (1956 18)
1948-1950
1950 Paul Harrington Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1952
1952 Gerald Anthony Evans Holt
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1954
1954 Malcolm J ames McLaren
Cooper (1956 18)
1949-1953
1953 John Raymond Ashdown
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1953
1953 Robert George Dacey Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 Anthony Wm Joseph Reeves
Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1952
1952 James Frederick Strike Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1951
1951 Colin Yates Cooper (1956 18)
1950-1954
1954 Howard Neville Taylor Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1952
1952 Christopher John Griffith Lewis
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1953
1953 Richard Anthony Parrett
Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1954
1954 Glyn Stewart Davis Cooper (1956 18)
1951-1955
1955 Anthony Richard Johnson
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Thomas Climo Lowman
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Arthur Neville Watson Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1953
1953 Francis Henry George Coomber
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1957
1957 Richard Dudley Waldron
Cooper (1956 18)
1952-1955
1955 Clifford John Parrett Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Andrew Huntley
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Christopher George Saunders
Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Richard Jeremy Castle Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1956
1956 Ian James Henderson Cooper (1956 18)
1953-1957
1957 Roger William Cranmer
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1958
1958 Colin Whyman Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1957
1957 William Nigel Gibbon Proctor
Cooper (1956 18)
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1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 29 of 38
1954-1957
1957 Richard Frederick Webb
Cooper (1956 18)
1954-1960
1960 Laurence John Rose Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 Roger Alan Farman Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1957
1957 David Martin Holloway Cooper (1956 18)
1955-1959
1959 Alan David Pope Cooper (1956 18)
1956-1961
1961 Peter Anthony Henderson
Brown (1981 1)
1956-1958
1958 Graham Eric Mitchell Brown (1981 1)
1956-1957
1957 Jeremy Simon Gadd Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 John William Harry Cramp
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Anthony Brooker Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Christopher Jonathon Guy Elphick
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1959
1959 Mark Laming Brown (1981 1)
1957-1958
1958 Christopher Lodge Brown (1981 1)
1957-1961
1961 Michael Howard Victor Chance
Brown (1981 1)
1957-1960
1960 Roger Valentine Warren
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1962
1962 Richard Alan Humphrey Self
Brown (1981 1)
1958-1961
1961 John Edwin Porter Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Ian Roger Maclean Black
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1963
1963 Stephen David Michael Potts
Brown (1981 1)
1959-1961
1961 John Vincent Austin Brown (1981 1)
1959-1964
1964 Favid Alan Littlejohn Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Thomas Hugh John Gough
Brown (1981 1)
1960-1962
1962 Christopher Pell Brown (1981 1)
1960-1963
1963 David Jeremy Horner Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Andrew Christopher Potts
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Stephen George May Brown (1981 1)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 30 of 38
1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 31 of 38
1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 32 of 38
1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 33 of 38
1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
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Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 30 of 38
1961-1964
1964 John George Arran Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Derek Grant Sayer Brown (1981 1)
1961-1964
1964 Malcolm Dennis Rye Brown (1981 1)
1962-1964
1964 Jonathon Anthony Rose
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Trevor Raymond Oliver Selby
Brown (1981 1)
1962-1966
1966 Geoffrey Pell Brown (1981 1)
1963-1967
1967 Derek Edward Trevor Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 1)
1963-1966
1966 Christopher William Royall
Brown (1981 1)
1964-1967
1967 Roger Adrian Pond Brown (1981 1)
1964-1966
1966 Andrew Gordon Dungate
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 David Graeme Poulter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Nigel John Patrick Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Peter John Shotter Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1968
1968 Timothy Richard Green
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1969
1969 Bruce William Henry Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1964-1967
1967 Nigel Woolcott Morley Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Roger Michael Colin Carden
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1966-1967
1967 Nigel Gareth Francis Brown (1981 2)
1966-1968
1968 Julien Joyce Brown (1981 2)
1966-1970
1970 Timothy Mark Newman
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Michael Frederick Wenman Pollock
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1969
1969 Jonathon Devereux Watkins
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1970
1970 Jeremy Richard Allington Smith
Brown (1981 2)
1967-1971
1971 Timothy Gerald Royall Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1969
1969 Anthony Graham Wheeler
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Robert John Dart Arnold
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 31 of 38
1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 32 of 38
1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 33 of 38
1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 31 of 38
1968-1972
1972 Geaeme Charles Shotter
Brown (1981 2)
1968-1972
1972 Peter David Mulberry Brown (1981 2)
1968-1973
1973 Martin Clive Warner Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1972
1972 James Anthony Denall Staddon
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1974
1974 David John Cordier Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1969-1971
1971 Jonathon Charles Large
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1971
1971 Quentin Patrick Vincent Brown
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1975
1975 Leopold Kroll Head Chorister
Brown (1981 2)
1970-1972
1972 Nicholas Edward Potts Brown (1981 2)
1971-1973
1973 Ian Michael Wilks Brown (1981 3)
1971-1974
1974 Andrew James Clifford Brown (1981 3)
1971-1975
1975 Owen Daniel Parry Williams
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Alun David Grafton Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Edmund Max Preston Bell
Brown (1981 3)
1971-197
197 Mark William Anderson
Brown (1981 3)
1971-1976
1976 Robin Howard Cooke Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1973
1973 Alun John Buddin Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Nicholas Christian Roy Davis
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 David McCree Brown (1981 3)
1972-1978
1978 George Nicholas Duncan Robey
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Timothy Stables Brown (1981 3)
1972-1977
1977 Richard John Parsons Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Donald Charles Howard McLean
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Rupert John Preston Bell
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1973-1978
1978 Julian Richard Oakley Brown (1981 3)
1974-1978
1978 Philip Markham Chesterfield
Brown (1981 3)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 32 of 38
1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 33 of 38
1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 32 of 38
1974-1975
1975 Mark McGing (Mark Sheer)
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1978
1978 Alistair Peter Berkley Murdock
Brown (1981 3)
1975-1981
1981 Timothy John Wooton Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Iain Wallace Lawson Murdoch
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1977
1977 Andrew James Chamberlain
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1980
1980 Robert Louis Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 3)
1976-1981
1981 Duncan Richard Amos McCree
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1978
1978 Richard Edward Dominic John Mose
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1980
1980 Christopher Andrew McCleod
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1982
1982 John Benedict Moore Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1977-1981
1981 Ranald Robin Heffernan
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jeremy Adam Ashbee Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1982
1982 Paul Kennedy Martin Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 Jonathon Martin Mackenzie
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Richard John Patrick Hastings
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1980
1980 Adrian Richard Parsons
Brown (1981 4)
1978-1983
1983 John Paul Phillips Brown (1981 4)
1979-1983
1983 Philip Nicholas Giles Bond
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1983
1983 Christopher Stephen Hugh Corp
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Benjamin Timothy Frederick Dean
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1985
1985 Lindsay Michael Galliers
Brown (1981 4)
1980-1984
1984 Julian Stewart Ellis Holland
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Peter Dixon Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981- Neil Michael (McGuire) Bull
Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1985
1985 Edward Stevenson Head Chorister
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Oliver Justin Campbell-Smith
Brown (1981 4)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 33 of 38
1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 33 of 38
1981-1985
1985 Andrew David James Baker
Brown (1981 4)
1981-1984
1984 Adrian Mark Wall Brown (1981 4)
1982-1985
1985 Nigel Leslie Parker Brown (1981 5)
1982 - Mathew Paatrick Ford Brown (1981 5) 1983 - Timothy Roger Newlyn Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Richard Duncan Atkinson
Brown (1981 5)
1983 - Christopher John Hill Brown (1981 5) 1984 - Ian Moore Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Paul Alexander Gazzard
Brown (1981 5)
1984 - Peter John Copping Brown (1981 5) 1984 - John Llewelyn Evans Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Christopher Charles Roberts
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Robert Norman John Crumbie
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - James Ashley Rogers Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Martin Charles Ridgway
Brown (1981 5)
1985 - Nicholas Jonathon Wakelin
Brown (1981 5)
[Incomplete]
22 Organists
Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
1588 Roper Blundell Schindler (1892 93)
1599 John Williams Schindler (1892 93)
1614 John Heath Schindler (1892 93)
1672 Charles Wren Schindler (1892 93)
1674 Daniel Henstridge Schindler (1892 93)
1699 Robert Bowers Schindler (1892 93)
1704 John Spain Schindler (1892 93)
1721 Charles Peach Schindler (1892 93)
1753 Joseph Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1781 Richard Howe Schindler (1892 93)
1790 Ralph Banks Schindler (1892 93)
1841 John Larkin Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1856 John Hopkins Schindler (1892 93)
1868 1868 Joseph Bridge Later organist of Chester Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1900 Bertram Luard-Selby Schindler (1892 93)
1916 Charles Hylton Stewart Schindler (1892 93)
1930 Harold Aubie Bennett Schindler (1892 93)
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 34 of 38
2014 2014 Claire Innes-Hopkins
2015 2015 Ben Bloor Schindler (1892 93)
2016 2016 James Norrey Assistant Sub-Organist
1559 1588 James Plomley Schindler (1892 93)
1850 1865 Philip Armes Later organist of Durham Cathedral
Schindler (1892 93)
1859 1865 Frederick Bridge Later Sir Frederick Bridge organist of Westminster Abbey
Schindler (1892 93)
1899 1901 Glanville Hopkins
1902 1908 Hector E Shallcross
1919 1921 Alfred H Allen
1921 1930 Percy Whitlock Later organist of St Stephens Church Bournemouth
1930 1976 James Alfred Levett
1956 1977 Robert Ashfield Schindler (1892 93)
1976 1981 David Poulter
Subsequently Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral Chester Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral
1977 1994 Barry Ferguson Schindler (1892 93)
1982 1989 Paul Hale Later organist and rector chori of Southwell Minster
1989 1994 Roger Sayer
1994 2013 Roger Sayer Cathedral Organist 2008 to 2013
Schindler (1892 93)
1994 1998 William Whitehead
1998 2001 Sean Farrell
2001 2002 James Eaton (acting)
2002 2006 Edmund Aldhouse
2006 2010 Dan Soper
2008 Scott Farrell Schindler (1892 93)
2010 2014 Samuel Rathbone
2014 2015 Adrian Bawtree Schindler (1892 93)
Henry Edmund Ford Schindler (1892 93)
Alfred Alexander Schindler (1892 93)
23 Lay-Clerks
Number Earliest Latest Forename Surname Notes References
L001 1545 d1545 Peter Bolde will DRbPwr 10 f87
L002 1545 d1546 Richard Butcher will DRbPwr 10 f131
1547 1549 John Wattes DRcA001
1547 1549 Francis Colyn DRcA001
1551 Walter Hayte DRcA001
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 35 of 38
1577 Thomas Churchman DRcAc1
1577 John Gilbert on dismissal of John King DRcAc1
1578 [d16212] Anthony Harrison
Gentleman of Chapel Royal DRcAc1
1579 1591-2 John Shaw DRcAc1
1580 1591-2 Casey Bedlowe DRcAc1
1581 1614 Phillip HeathHayte made a clerk 1581 DRcAc1
1591-2 Walter Symekins DRcFTb6
1591-2 Philp Symonson DRcFTb6
1591-2 1609 John Williams the younger DRcFTb6
1591-2 1634 John Rowle(s)
Laud visitation reference DRcFTb6
1591-2 William Streadell DRcFTb6
1614 Edward Browne DRcFTb8
1614 Martin Cotes DRcFTb8
1614 John Robinson
Master of the Choristers DRcFTb8
1614 John Chapman DRcFTb8
1614 John Fowkes DRcFTb8
1614 Williian Herne DRcFTb8
1614 1673 John Heath Organist DRcFTb8
1634 [ ] Kirk Laud visitation
1634 d1636 John Stephens
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1634 d1643 William West
Gentleman of Chapel Royal Laud visitation
1660 Edward BrimtonBrimpton son of John DRcArb1
1660 John BrimtonBrimpton DRcArb1
d1661 Richard Holden Register
1665 Thomas Leather DRcArb2
d1667 Anthony Hogg Register
1669 Richard Pearson DRcArb2
lt1672 John Hogg DRcFTb8
lt1672 16751 Richard Marchant DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Wimshurst DRcFTb8
lt1672 John Heath junior DRcFTb8
1669 Anthony Heardson 2 places DRcFTb8
1673 d1676 Thomas Exon DRcFTb8
16752 16761 Charles Cresswell
replaced Richard Marchant DRcArb2
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 36 of 38
16762 John White
replaced Charles Cresswell DRcFTb11
16761 James Thurstone
replaced Anthony Heardson DRcArb2
16742 William Head replaced John Heath DRcArb2
16772 16802 Luke Goodwyn
16803 Thomas Huggins
replaced Luke Goodwyn
3 Data Delivery Reporting amp Archiving
31 Report is available in PDF format on the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild website at
wwwrochestercathedralresearchguildorg
32 A PDF version of this final report has been supplied to the following parties
33 Digital copies of the report photographs and tracings will be provided to Kent Historic
Environment Record
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 37 of 38
8 Bibliography
81 Documents
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f87 will of Richard Butcher
KHLC DRb Pwr 10 f131 will of Peter Bolde
TNA PROB 111952 q[check] will of Ralph Banks 1834
TNA PROB 112205 vol 2 q90 will of Thomas Whiffin 1855
82 Books and articles
AR49 Anthems as used in Rochester Cathedral Selected and arranged in Chronological order
by J L Hopkins Mus Bac Organist and S Shepherd MA Precentor J Alfred Novello
1849
BDECM Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby A
Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485-1714 Ashgate 1998 (2 vols)
Bridge John Frederick Bridge A Westminster Pilgrim Novello 1918
CBCR Andrew Ashbee and John Harley The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal Ashgate 2000
(2 vols)
Crosby Brian Crosby Durham Cathedral Choristers and their Masters Dean amp Chapter
Durham 1980
CRS Charles Roach Smith Retrospections Social and Archaeological vol 3 1891
EECM Early English Church Music
SECM Ralph T Daniel and Peter le Huray The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660
British Academy 1972
Foster Joseph Foster Alumni Oxoniensis the Members of the University of Oxford (a) 1500-
1714 (b) 1715-1886
Le Huray Peter le Huray Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660 London 1967
MT Musical Times
Vol 41 no 684 (Feb 1 1900 pp81-86 Philip Armes
Vol 41 No 692 (Oct 1 1900) p684 Obituary John Hopkins
Vol 49 No 781 (Mar 1 1908) pp149-159 Rochester Cathedral
Payne Ian Payne The Provision and Practice of Sacred Music at Cambridge Colleges and
Selected Cathedrals c1547-c1646 A Comparative Study of the Archival Evidence
Garland Publishing Inc New York and London 1993
PCC Prerogative Court of Canterbury [wills and administrations]
RECM Andrew Ashbee (ed) Records of English Court Music AshgateScolar Press 1986-
1996 (nine vols)
RMARC (Smith) Alan Smith lsquoThe Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I An
Annotated Registerrsquo Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 5 (1965) 13-46
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
RCL18r10 An index of the musicians of Rochester Cathedral A Ashbee 2018
Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 38 of 38
Shindler Thomas Shindler (ed) The Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (1657-
1837) privately printed Canterbury 1892
Spink Ian Spink Restoration Cathedral Music 1660-1714 Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
Shaw Watkins Shaw The Succession of Organists of the Chapel Royal and the Cathedrals of
England and Wales from c1558 Clarendon Press Oxford 1991
Smith Andrew Freeman and John Rowntree Father Smith otherwise Bernard Schmidt being
an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker Positif Press Oxford 1977
Tanner Norman Alan Thomas Tanner Choristers of Rochester Cathedral Rochester 1984
Thacker Alan L Thacker Chester Cathedral Its Music and Musicians Chester nd
Thorpe John Thorpe Registrum Roffense London 1769
Torr V J Torr lsquoRochester Cathedral in 1634rsquo Archaeologica Cantiana vol 78 (1963) 39-54
Venn John and J A Venn Alumni Cantabrigiensis 1261-1900
WAM (LV) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Lay Vicars
WAM (MC) Westminster Abbey Muniment Room MS card index of Minor Canons
Windsor CA Shelagh Bond (ed) The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor 1430 1523-
1672 Oxley Windsor 1966
Windsor LC MS notes on lay clerks of St Georgersquos Chapel Windsor compiled by Shelagh Bond (and
held at St Georgersquos)
83 Websites
Ancestry Ancestrycouk
BNA British Newspaper Archive
CityArk Medway Archives
Clergydb The Clergy Database
FS Family Search and International Genealogical Index
REPOSITORIES
CCA Canterbury Cathedral Archives (from June 2018 at KHLC)
KHLC Kent History and Library Centre (formerly Kent Archives Office)
LMA London Metropolitan Archives
MAC Medway Archives centre (formerly MALSC)
YMA York Minster Archives
9 Acknowledgments
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