Charles Hylton Stewart
Charles Hylton Stewart (21 March 1884 – 14 November 1932[1]) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Rochester Cathedral and St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.[2] He also produced several compositions for organ, and a few for choir.
Background
Arthur Charles Lestoc Hylton Stewart[3] was born on 21 March 1884 in Chester, the son of Charles Henry Hylton Stewart (a minor canon of Chester Cathedral and previously Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral).
His brother was Bruce Hylton-Stewart.
He was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford and organ scholar of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
He was music master at Sedbergh School from 1907 - 1908.
In 1917, he married Gladys Maud Priestley Inglis, the daughter of Charles John Inglis and the granddaughter of Dr. James Inglis.[4]
He died 14 November 1932.[5]
Career
Organist of:
- St. Martin's Church, Scarborough 1908 - 1914
- Blackburn Parish Church 1914 - 1916
- Rochester Cathedral 1916 - 1930
- Chester Cathedral 1930 - 1932
- St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1932
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| Preceded by Bertram Luard-Selby |
Organist and Master of the Choristers of Rochester Cathedral 1916-1930 |
Succeeded by Harold Aubie Bennett |
| Preceded by Henry Walford Davies |
Organist and Master of the Choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1932 |
Succeeded by William Henry Harris |
References
- http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C2584
- The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw.
- Humphreys, Maggie; Evans, Robert (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. London, England: Mansell Publishing Ltd. p. 178.
- "England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005". Ancestry.com (Volume 9d ed.). p. 605. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - Stewart, Arthur Charles Lestoc Hylton (1933). "England and Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966, 1973-1995". Ancestry.com. p. 521. Missing or empty
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