Thomas Chilcot
Thomas Chilcot (1707?–1766), was an English organist and composer.
C… Read Full Bio ↴Thomas Chilcot (1707?–1766), was an English organist and composer.
Chilcot was born in the West of England (probably Bath) in or about 1707. Records of his birth, like most other records from his life, are now lost. Chilcot was educated at Bath Charity School, whose headmaster, Henry Dixon, had a strong interest in church music. On the 6th July 1721 Chilcot (presumably aged fourteen) was apprenticed to Josiah Priest, who had been the organist of Bath Abbey since 1714; this seems to have been the only occasion on which the school allowed a pupil to be apprenticed to a musician. On Priest's death just four years later, Chilcot was made Abbey organist on a probationary basis, and in 1728 the appointment was made permanent. As City musician in fashionable Bath, Chilcot rapidly established a remarkable relationship with many noble families, attracting their patronage and subscriptions to his publications. He became a member and subsequently Grand Master of the Royal Cumberland Lodge of Freemasons. He was also amongst the original members of the Royal Society of Musicians, founded in 1738/1739.
As well as his work at the Abbey, Chilcot organised and directed some ambitious choral concerts (at which he played his own concertos), and appears also to have run a small instrument hire business.
He married Elizabeth Mills of Bath in 1729 and had seven children, of whom four survived. Following Elizabeth's death, he married Anne Wrey, a member of a prominent West Country family (the Wrey baronets), in 1749.
Chilcot died suddenly on the 24th November 1766, after playing a highly influential part in Bath for forty years. Almost no public notice was taken of his death and a complicated disagreement over Chilcot's estate meant that none of the elaborate arrangements that the composer had made for his own funeral procession, monument, and memorial trusts, were ever carried out
C… Read Full Bio ↴Thomas Chilcot (1707?–1766), was an English organist and composer.
Chilcot was born in the West of England (probably Bath) in or about 1707. Records of his birth, like most other records from his life, are now lost. Chilcot was educated at Bath Charity School, whose headmaster, Henry Dixon, had a strong interest in church music. On the 6th July 1721 Chilcot (presumably aged fourteen) was apprenticed to Josiah Priest, who had been the organist of Bath Abbey since 1714; this seems to have been the only occasion on which the school allowed a pupil to be apprenticed to a musician. On Priest's death just four years later, Chilcot was made Abbey organist on a probationary basis, and in 1728 the appointment was made permanent. As City musician in fashionable Bath, Chilcot rapidly established a remarkable relationship with many noble families, attracting their patronage and subscriptions to his publications. He became a member and subsequently Grand Master of the Royal Cumberland Lodge of Freemasons. He was also amongst the original members of the Royal Society of Musicians, founded in 1738/1739.
As well as his work at the Abbey, Chilcot organised and directed some ambitious choral concerts (at which he played his own concertos), and appears also to have run a small instrument hire business.
He married Elizabeth Mills of Bath in 1729 and had seven children, of whom four survived. Following Elizabeth's death, he married Anne Wrey, a member of a prominent West Country family (the Wrey baronets), in 1749.
Chilcot died suddenly on the 24th November 1766, after playing a highly influential part in Bath for forty years. Almost no public notice was taken of his death and a complicated disagreement over Chilcot's estate meant that none of the elaborate arrangements that the composer had made for his own funeral procession, monument, and memorial trusts, were ever carried out
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