George Pike England (ca.1765 – February 1815) was an English organ builder who was among the most prominent in England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Life

He was the son of organ builder George England and Mary Blasdale. He married Ann Wilson on 13 October 1789 in St Pancras parish church. He was buried at St Andrew's, Holborn, after his death in February 1815.

Career

He left a list of the organs he built in an extant account book. They are those of: *St. George's Chapel; Portsmouth Common, 1788 *

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Chapel, 1790 *Adelphi Chapel, 1791 *Gainsborough Church, Lincolnshire, 1793 *Newington Church, Surrey, and Blandford Forum Church, 1794 *St Peter's, Carmarthen, 1796 * St Margaret Lothbury, 1801 *

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as "a delightful piece". For a short while before his death, Joseph William Walker (1802–1870) was apprenticed to him.''Historic organs of New South Wales''. Graeme David Rushworth. 1988 Walker later founded the company of J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd.

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