The British Musical Biography

[E] Alcock, William Bennis, organist.
Studied under Sir R. P. Stewart. Graduated
Mus. B., Oxford, 1879. Was appointed the
first organist of Christ Church, Morningside,
Edinburgh, in 1876, where he worked up the
musical service to a high pitch of excellence.
He was a most skilful organist. In 1891 he
resigned his post at Christ Church, and was
appointed music master in Speir's School,
Beith, Ayrshire, where he taught with much
success. He died, of congestion of the lungs,
October, 1892. Madrigals and glees, he made
a study of, and lectured upon the subject in
Morningside Athenæum.

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