OBITUARY.
SHE GEORGE ELYEY. [Special to Press Association,] LONDON, Dec. 10. Sir George J. Elvey, the eminent musician, is dead, in his seventyeighth year. Sir George J. Elvey, born March 27,1816, at Canterbury, was educated at the cathedral school, Canterbury ; entered New College, Oxford, and took his degree of Bachelor of Music in 1838, and that of Doctor of Music in 1841, having obtained a dispensation from the late Duke of Wellington, by which he was enabled to take his degree two years earlier than the statutes of the University would permit. He was appointed organist of St George’s Chapel Royal, .Windsor, in 1836, and organist to the Queen in 1837. He was knighted by the Queen at Windsor, March 24,1871. He gained the Gresham Gold Medal in 1834 for ecclesiastical composition. On taking his Bachelor’s degree he produced an oratorio entitled “ The Resurrection and Ascension;” wrote two festival anthems for Gloucester and Worcester triennial meetings, and also many compositions which are well known, and constantly performed in English cathedrals.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10218, 12 December 1893, Page 5
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170OBITUARY. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10218, 12 December 1893, Page 5
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