George Pike England
British organ builder
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| Intro | British organ builder | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Musical instrument maker | |
| Work field | Music | |
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| Birth | 1765 | |
| Death | 1816 (aged 51 years) |
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Biography
George Pike England (ca.1765 – February 1815) was an English organ builder who was among the most prominent in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Life
He was the son of organ builder George England and Mary Blasdale. He married Ann Wilson on 13 October 1789 in St Pancras Parish Church. He was buried at St Andrew's, Holborn, after his death in February 1815.
Career
He left a list of the organs he built in an extant account book. They are those of:
- St. George's Chapel; Portsmouth Common, 1788
- St James's Church, Clerkenwell, and Fetter Lane Chapel, 1790
- Warminster Church, and Adelphi Chapel, 1791
- Gainsborough Church, Lincolnshire, 1793
- Newington Church, Surrey, and Blandford Forum Church, 1794
- St Peter's, Carmarthen, 1796
- St Margaret Lothbury, 1801
- Sardinian Embassy Chapel, 1802
- Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1803
- Sheffield Parish Church, St. Philip's, Birmingham, and St Martin Outwich, 1805
- Hinckley Parish Church, 1808
- St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge; Richmond, Yorkshire; Lancaster Priory, 1809
- Shiffnall, Salop, and Ulverston, 1811
- St Mary's Church, Islington, 1812
For a short while before his death, Joseph William Walker (1802–1870) was apprenticed to him. He later founded the company of J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd.