ST. FULBERT

Composer: Henry J. Gauntlett

Henry John Gauntlett was born in Britain on 9 July 1805, at Wellington, Shropshire. He became the organist at his father's church[2] at Olney, Buckinghamshire at the age of nine. He was intended for a career in law, and he remained a lawyer until he was almost forty years of age, when he abandoned the profession and devoted himself to music. He was organist at a number of leading London churches, including St Olave's in Tooley Street, Southwark from 1827 to 1846, where he designed a new grand organ which was built, installed and perfected to his satisfaction between 1844 and March 1846, and Union Chapel, Islington from 1852 - 1861. Eventually the degree of Mus. Doc. was conferred on him by the Archbishop of Canterbury, he being the… Go to person page >