The British Musical Biography

[E] Makepeace, William, bass vocalist, born
about 1820. Chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral
under Hawes. Appointed lay-clerk, Rochester
Cathedral, in 1845. He was also choir school-
master and librarian. Many eminent mu-
sicians passed under him as pupils. He
resigned the office of schoolmaster about 1886,
and retired from the choir on a pension a few
months only before his death, which took
place at Rochester, September 11, 1896, in the
76th year of his age. He was an original
member of the Choir Benevolent Fund.

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