Willing, Christopher Edwin Cumming

Composer

b Tavistock, Devon 1830, d Bowes Park, Southgate, Middx 1904. Westminster Abbey chorister from 1839; organist of Blackheath Park Ch from 1845, and asst organist, Westminster Abbey. Organist at the Foundling Hospital 1848–79, St Paul’s Covent Garden 1857–60, All Saints’ Margaret St 1860–68. Edited The Book of Common Praise 1868. Organist and chorus-master, the Sacred Harmonic Soc; 1st conductor of St Alban’s Choral Union. No.111=642.