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A Devonshire Worthy: William Jackson of Exeter. Organist of Exeter Cathedral and Composer of Music

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G. Townsend

Trans. Devon. Assoc. 14, (182), pp. 695-701.

Prepared by Michael Steer

Jackson was born and died in Exeter, the son of a grocer who later became master of the city workhouse. He was sent in 1748 to London, to become a pupil of John Travers, organist to the Chapel Royal. In 1767 he wrote the music for an adaptation of Milton's Lycidas, which was produced at Covent Garden on the occasion of the death of Prince Edward, brother to George III. On his return to Exeter, Jackson taught music until 1777, when he was appointed subchanter, organist, lay vicar, and master of choristers to the cathedral. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the University of Michigan Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.

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