The British Musical Biography

[E] Paton, James Crooks, organist, com-
poser, and violoncellist, was born at Edin-
burgh, March 28, 1855. He was organist of
St. Leonard's Parish Church, and of Dalkeith
Parish Church, and from 1881 was conductor
of the St. Andrew's Amateur Orchestral
Society; Member of Waddel's Quartet Party.
He died at Edinburgh, August 27, 1886.
Composer of an overture, " The Pursuit of
Pleasure" (1886) ; a quartet, for strings, in G
minor; Marches, gavottes, niuzurkas; "Lena"
(1886), etc., for orchestra ; all of which are in
manuscript.

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