The British Musical Biography

[E] Shrubsole, William, organist and com-
poser, born at Canterbury in 1760. He was
a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral from
1770 till 1777. In September, 1782, he was
appointed organist of Bangor Cathedral at a
salary of forty guineas a year. In December,
1783, he was dismissed for being too closely
connected "with one Abbott late of this place,"
and for " frequenting conventicles." He
therefore next became organist of Spa Fields
Chapel, Clerkenwell, in 1784, and held the
post till his death, at London, January 18,,
1806. He was buried in Buiihill Fields,
London, where a monument marks his grave.
This was restored by public subscriptions
collected by Mr. F. G. Edwards, in 1892.
Benjamin Jacob and William Russell were
among his pupils. Shrubsole is now chiefly
remembered as the composer of the once pop-
ular hymn tune called " Miles Lane," or
sometimes " Scarborough."

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