The British Musical Biography

[E] Randall, John, organist and composer,
was born in 1715. Chorister in Chapel Royal
under B. Gates. Mus. Bac, Cantab., 1744.
Organist of Trinity College, St. John's College,
King's College, 1775, and Pembroke Hall,
Cambridge. Professor of Music Cambridge
University, in succession to M. Greene, 1755.
Mus. Doc, Cantab., 1756. He died at Cam-
bridge, March 18, 1799, aged 88. Composer
of odes, anthems, psalms, and chants, and a
" Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes,
some of which are new, others by permission
of the authors." Cambridge, 1794. Songs:
Happy Swain, Hopeless Love, Shepherd's
Wedding.

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