A lay clerk, also known as a lay vicar, song man or a vicar choral, is a professional adult singer in an Anglican cathedral and often Roman Catholic cathedral...

statutes specified that the choir should consist of ten chaplains, six clerks (lay singers) and 16 choristers who were to be "poor and needy boys, of sound...

generally referred to as the town clerk, township clerk, city clerk, village clerk, borough clerk, board secretary, or county clerk. Other titles also exist,...

gained a 2:1 in music. Upon leaving Oxford University, Sartin sang as a lay clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, a post he held for five years. During...

advice of the prime minister. The Foundation also includes the choristers, lay clerks, organists, King's Scholars, the Six Preachers and a range of other officers;...

James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory...

born at Ashford in 1895. Thomas Tallis, composer and organist, was a lay clerk of Canterbury Cathedral around 1541-2. Peter Warlock, composer and writer...

of Orlande de Lassus. Wearing sang at Westminster Cathedral as a tenor lay clerk for many years and also had a career as a chorus master, working as such...

and until 1927 the men's voices were provided by choral scholars and lay clerks. Today, 14 undergraduates from the choir sing the men's parts. The popularity...

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Oxford, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in music, and also sang as a Lay Clerk at New College. Protheroe started his career with his academic pursuits...

of seven and ten. There are six Lay Clerks in the Cathedral Choir and up to six Choral Scholars. Three of the Lay Clerks are supported by endowments from...

English composer of the early 16th century, John Taverner, sang as a lay clerk at Holy Trinity Church in Tattershall for a time until he was appointed...

accompaniment. Adult singers in a cathedral choir are often referred to as lay clerks, while children may be referred to as choristers or trebles. In certain...

James Thomas Bowman CBE (6 November 1941 – 27 March 2023) was an English countertenor. His career spanned opera, oratorio, contemporary music and solo...

have joined the choir school in 1493 and remained there as an additional lay clerk once his voice broke. In 1502 he left for the Oxford University Music...

Richard Lovett (1692–1780) was an English amateur scientist and lay clerk of Worcester Cathedral. Lovett was mainly known as a pioneer in the electric...

at Lincoln Cathedral from 1563 to 1572. John Taverner was listed as a lay clerk at Tattershall Collegiate Church in 1525 and also sang at St Botolph's...

composer of instrumental music. On 11 September 1591 John Baldwin, a tenor lay-clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor and later a colleague of Byrd in the Chapel...

As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels...

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alto lay clerk in the Choir of New College, Oxford where he began a career playing and making lutes near Oxford. In 1960 he took up a position as a lay clerk...

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Cathedral) 1970–1974 Brian Hodge 1972–1974 John Wenlock Gittins (also, Alto Lay Clerk at this time) 1975–1980 Stephen Drew Pinnock (afterwards Director of Music...

worked there throughout his musical career. He was first mentioned as a lay clerk, was appointed a "singing man" in c. 1534, and was probably the cathedral's...

William Cobbold (1560–1639) was an English composer. He was lay clerk and organist at the Chapel Royal. One of his most-well known works today is the...

performing at the Aldeburgh Festival. He was a Vicar Choral (choir singer or lay-clerk) at St Paul's Cathedral from 1961 to 1962. In 1961 Shirley-Quirk was understudy...

David Willcocks. Following his time in college, Tim went on to become a lay clerk at New College, Oxford, and later worked as a schoolteacher for a number...

appointed as alto lay clerk at Ely Cathedral, then at Lichfield Cathedral, followed by Canterbury Cathedral, where he was senior lay clerk from 1978 until...

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