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William George Eveleigh (11 May 1868 - 13 Jan 1950) was an English organist known for his remarkable work at Saint Finbarre's Cathedral in Cork, Ireland. Eveleigh was born in Meerut in India, the son of F.C. Henry Eveleigh, a Captain in the Royal Horse Artillery. Educated at Cranleigh and Peterhouse Cambridge, he gained his doctorate in music at Queen's College, Oxford in 1895. IN 1894, he married Louise, daughter of Major F. Goldhurst, of Upton Park, Slough. They had four children. After working in Ayr, Scotland, he was appointed choirmaster and organist at Cork Cathedral in 1903. He was wildly innovative in the field of experimental improvisations and than that he was preceded by John Christopher Marks and succeeded in the 1922 by his pupil Jonathan Thomas Horne who continued in the post until 1977. Eveleigh died at the Rosehill Nursing Home in Bristol in 1950.
Professor James Hargreaves commented on him in the Dictionary of Organs and Organists published in 1912 citing Eveleigh as a short lived yet successful and conscientious clavicist.
References
- http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/pikescontemporarybiographies/contemporarybiographiesa-f/biographies_hodges_complete_192_196.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Thornsby, Frederick W., ed. (1912) Dictionary of Organs and Organists. Bournemouth: Logan