George Clement Martin

MARTIN, (Sir) George Clement. b. Lambourne, Berkshire, 11 September 1844; d. London, 23 February 1916. Martin was a pupil of John Stainer* at Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1871 was appointed organist to the Duke of Buccleuch’s private chapel at Dalkeith, south of Edinburgh, where there were daily choral services. Stainer moved to St Paul’s Cathedral in 1872, and two years later invited Martin to be the first music master of the newly-established choir school, with chief responsibility for the choristers’ training; to this post was added that of Sub-Organist in 1876. In 1888 he succeeded Stainer as Organist, retaining however the duty of training the boys. A skilled choirmaster, he ably...