Charles Steggall

STEGGALL, Charles. b. London, 3 June 1826; d. London, 7 June 1905. The son of a businessman, he studied piano and composition under William Sterndale Bennett* at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1851 he earned the degree of DMus at Cambridge University. He became organist of Christ Chapel, Maida Hill, 1848; Christ Church, Paddington, 1855; and Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, 1864. He was a professor of organ and harmony at the Royal Academy of Music from 1851 to 1903, and one of the founders of the Royal College of Organists in 1864. He was also honorary secretary of the Bach Society throughout its existence (1849–70) and a member of the A&M steering committee from 1887. Steggall’s compositions...