Organists at St Alban's
We are trying to compile a complete list of organists from the available records. The post has been variously designated as Choir Master & Organist; Organist; Organist & Master of the Choristers; and Director of Music; currently it is Organist and Choir Director.
At the first St Alban's Mission Church (1865-1871):
1868 Mr Price
At the Second St Alban's Church (1871-1881; St Columba's 1881-1910)
1876 -1880 Samuel Royale Shore Hon. Organist (also Hon. Assistant 1881-1886)
At the Third St Alban's Church (1881-present)
1881-1882 Hugh Brooksbank, later Organist at Llandaff Cathedral
1882-1883 Douglas Redman
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1886 Mr Woodall
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1889–1899 Joseph Granville Smith
1899-1901 WE Abraham
1901-1910 William Terrence Jenkins
1910-1911 A Cooper
1911-1918 Thomas J Richards
1919-1923 George Henry Manton
1923-1953 Ernest Edward Madeley
1954-1960 Roy Cyril Massey, later Organist at Birmingham and Hereford Cathedrals
1960-1961 D Britton
1961-1967 Raymond J Isaacson
1969-1970+ J Bates
June 1971-1976 Roy Hayton
1977 A Powers
1977-1979 J Butt
1979-1982 CJ Clifton
1979-1981 assistant organist David Briggs, later organist at Hereford, Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals, currently Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York
1981-1983 I Simcock
1983-1991 I Ledsham
1992-1997 Colin Kinton
1998-2004 Darren C Hogg
2004-2018 Chris Harker
2006-2011 David Lane (Director of Music based at St Agatha's Sparkbrook) Christopher Harker (Assistant Organist at St Alban's)
2011-2012 T Keogh
2013-2019 Graeme Martin
2020-2021 Vacant (the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the appointment of a new organist)
2022-present Aled Liddington