John Dykes Bower

Sir John Dykes Bower CVO (13 August 1905 – 1981) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Truro Cathedral, Durham Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral.^[1]

Background

John Dykes Bower was born on 13 August 1905 in Gloucester. He was one of four brothers. Stephen Dykes Bower became a famous church architect.

He was educated at Cheltenham College and studied organ under Herbert Brewer, and was organ scholar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1922.

He was organist of:

Cultural offices
Preceded by Hubert Stanley Middleton	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Truro Cathedral 1926-1929	Succeeded by Guillaume Ormond
Preceded by William Henry Harris	Organist and Master of the Choristers of New College, Oxford 1929-1933	Succeeded by Sydney Watson
Preceded by Arnold D. Culley	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Durham Cathedral 1933-1936	Succeeded by Conrad William Eden
Preceded by Stanley Marchant	Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral 1936-1968	Succeeded by Christopher Hugh Dearnley

↑ The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw
↑ Scholes, Percy A. (1970) The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed. London: Oxford U. P.; p. 123b

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 50997921 MusicBrainz: 1b833d70-f5e7-48bb-a219-8eeba83bbd7e

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