Gordon Archbold Slater

Gordon Archbold Slater (1896–1979) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Leicester Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral.^[1]

He was a composer of organ, piano and choral music. His hymn tune St Botolph is very widely sung to the words Jesu the Very Thought of Thee (Edward Caswall's translation of Bernard of Clairvaux's Jesu Dulcis Memoria).^[2]

One of his pupils was Dennis Townhill, later organist of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.^[3]

Career

Organist of:

• St Botolph's Church, Boston (1919–1927)
• Leicester Cathedral (1927–1931)
• Lincoln Cathedral (1931–1966)^[4]

References

1. ^ The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw.
2. ^ http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/589
3. ^ Dennis Townhill: organist, composer and choral conductor
4. ^ A History of Lincoln Minster. Dorothy Owen

Cultural offices
Preceded by unknown	Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Botolph's Church, Boston 1919-1927	Succeeded by unknown
Preceded by Charles Hancock	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Leicester Cathedral 1927-1931	Succeeded by George Charles Gray
Preceded by George Bennett	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Lincoln Cathedral 1931-1966	Succeeded by Philip Marshall

Persondata
Name	Slater, Gordon Archbold
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Date of birth	1896
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Date of death	1979
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