The British Musical Biography

[E] Lavington, Charles Williams, organist,
born at Wells, Somerset, February, 1819.
Chorister, Wells Cathedral, and studied under
Perkins, the Cathedral organist, and later with
James Turle at Westminster Abbey. Return-
ing to Wells, he became assistant organist at
the Cathedral ; in 1842 was appointed acting
organist ; and on the death of Perkins was
made organist and master of the choristers,
and organist of the Theological College. At
a special service in Wells Cathedral, August
4, 1892, the Choirs of Bristol and Exeter
Cathedrals assisted ; indirectly marking Lav-
ington's Jubilee. He died at Wells, October
27, 1895, and with him almost the last of the
old school of organ xjlaying, and accompanying.

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