William Shrubsole (I)

SHRUBSOLE, William (I). b. January 1760 (baptized 13 Jan); d. 18 January 1806. Born at Canterbury, he was a chorister at the Cathedral. He became an organ teacher in London, and must have acquired a considerable reputation as an organist, because he was appointed organist of Bangor Cathedral in 1782. His association with a nonconformist called Abbott and his ‘frequenting Conventicles’ led to his dismissal in December 1783, and he went to London, where he became the organist of one of the Countess of Huntingdon’s* chapels, Spa Fields, Clerkenwell. He became organist of St Bartholomew-the-Less in 1800, which suggests some accommodation with the Church of England, although he was buried in the...