George William Martin

MARTIN, George William. b. London, 8 March 1828; d. Wandsworth, London, 16 April 1881. He was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, and sang in the choir for the Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey in 1837. He taught music at the Normal College for Army Schoolmasters, and was a resident music master at St John’s Training College, Battersea, London from 1845 to 1853. He was the first organist of Christ Church, Battersea, opened in 1849. He was renowned as a trainer and conductor of children’s choirs, and conducted the National Schools Choral Festival at the Crystal Palace in 1859. He founded the National Choral Society in 1860, and was well known as a composer of glees,...