- Taylor, Robert
[E] Taylor, Robert, conductor and organist.
While a child was organist at Badsey, Worces-
ter, and Child's Wickham, Gloucester. Thence
he entered Worcester Cathedral as a chorister,
and was afterwards acticled to W. Done, and
became his assistant organist. Appointed
organist of St. Patrick's, Hove, Brighton, he
established the Brighton Sacred Harmonic
Society, of which he has been conductor since
1870, doing excellent work in the cause of
music. In 1869 he was appointed organist of
Brighton College, an office he held for nine-
teen years. With Dr. Alfred King he estab-
lished the Brighton School of Music. He is
choirmaster at the Church of St. Michael and
All Angels, Brighton.entry id: 406-R-47
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