The British Musical Biography

[E] Smith, Thomas Roylands. Diocesan
choirmaster and organist, born at Highgate,
Middlesex, October 28, 1847. Studied under
Joseph Thomas Cooper, and Scotson Clark.
Held the appointment of Music Master at
Abingdon Grammar School, but has now been
for many years resident in Torquay. He was
organist of St. John's, and St. Mary's, Torquay,
resigning the former in 1876, and the latter in
1892. His principal work has been the pro-
motion and improvement of Church music.
Since 1875 he has been conductor of the
Plympton Deanery Choral Union, and Exeter
Diocesan Choirmaster, from 1886. In these
capacities he has conducted as many as twelve
choral festivals in the year, in which about
3,000 singers take part, including one in Exeter
Cathedral. As a teacher he has been very
successful, and in choral music his societies
at Chudleigh, Teignmouth, and Torquay, have
done good work. He has published a Te
Deum, Pater Noster, and five Evening Services
to various forms of the Gregorian and Ambro-
sian melodies ; and has contributed many
articles on church and choral music to differ-
ent papers.

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