Anne Maddocks (23 October 1911 in

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– October 2006) was an

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musician. Maddocks' parents were enthusiastic amateur musicians and, by the age of 14, Anne was playing the

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for services at two village churches. In 1942 she was appointed Assistant Organist at

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(a pupil of

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) who was the cathedral's Organist & Master of the Choristers. She was the first woman in

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to hold such a post in the

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. She had

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and as Hawkins put it, she played Widor's music "with the master's interpretation". She gave the first British performance of

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in Chichester Cathedral in 1943. She was married to

Morris Maddocks Morris Henry St John Maddocks (28 April 1928 – 19 January 2008) was a bishop in the Church of England. He was a leading proponent of healing ministry and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester from 1987. He died on 19 January 200 ...

, then curate of

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and later Assistant Bishop of Bath and Wells, in

in 1955. In 1983, she and her husband started the

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. 11 years later, Anne and Morris retired to the Cathedral Close,

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where they frequently attended Evensong in the

. Anne died in October 2006 and her funeral was in

, where Charles Widor's

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was sung.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maddocks, Anne 1911 births 2006 deaths Morris Maddocks English organists Assistant Organists of Chichester Cathedral People from Heyshott 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century English musicians 20th-century organists

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