- Samuel Myerscough
Samuel Myerscough (1854-1932) was an acclaimed musician(organist), teacher and examiner. He was a Fellow of the
Royal College of Organists and aFellow of Trinity College London .Samuel Myerscough was born in 1854 in Lancashire, England, a gifted musician, he was awarded the Royal College of Organists Medal in 1873.
He was appointed as assistant organist at
Manchester Cathedral and the family moved there, he was a convert to Catholicism in 1899 accepted into the church by Fr.Bernard Vaughan S.J., gave up his job at the Cathedral and Dublin where he taught music inLoretto Abbey Rathfarnham. The first son of Samuel and Mary Myerscough was born in Rochdale on the 2nd of april 1879, called Samuel Sebastian Myerscough(1879-1954) and also a gifted musician and attained a Bachelor of Music at Oxford, became a Jesuit Priest, training atOscott College Birmingham. [ [http://www.cottoncollege.co.uk/cotton/pictures/cottonians/all/c1954_92.pdf Obituary Fr. Samuel Sebastian Myerscough] The Cottonian, Page2, Vol. XL111. Part1, No. 92, (Autumn 1954)] The Myerscough family lived in 3 Fontenoy Terrace, Bray, Co Wicklow.In 1904 he founded the
Leinster School of Music & Drama The Musical Herald of 1 July 1909 wrote at length of Mr Myerscough‘s prominence in Irish musical life:"The work by which Mr. Myerscough will be best remembered is the Leinster School of Music, of which he is the founder and inspiring force. .... Pupils came from as far north as Enniskillen, southwards from Waterford, and across from Galway."
He is listed as a member
The Musical Association as "Myerscough, S., Esq., B.Mns. Oxon., F.R.C.O. (Liverpool)" [ [http://jrma.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/58/1.pdf Proceedings of The Musical Association (Fifty eight session 1931-1932), THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION LONDON] ] .Samuel Myerscough, Mus. Bac. Oxon, F.R.C.O., F.T.C. died 28th March 1932 aged 78 years and is buried in
Deans Grange Cemetery , Co Dublin. [ [http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/1headstones/dublin/headstones/deansgrange-n01.txt Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives - Headstones: No. 16 Deansgrange North Section, Deans Grange Cemetery, Co. Dublin] ]References
External links
* [http://www.gcd.ie/lsmd - Leinster School of Music & Drama website]
* [http://www.rma.ac.uk/ - The Royal Musical Association website]
* [http://www.rco.org.uk/ - The Royal College of Organists]
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