John Herbert Long FRCO (1 July 1908 - 1985) was an English music teacher and organist.

Life

The son of Herbert Long of Bury St. Edmunds, and Sophia Edith Chapman,Merton College Register, 1900-1964, ed. Robert Graham Cochrane Levens, Basil Blackwell, 1964, pg 218 Long was educated at Banbury Grammar School and the Royal College of Music, then studied Music at

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...

Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 02 July 1938 from 1931 to 1934 (taking a B.Mus. in 1933, a B.A. in 1934), during which period he also served as the college organist. He later received an M.A. from Merton College, in 1946. His sister was the celebrated pianist, Kathleen Long. He married Margery Edith Barnby Tustain (1910-1993) in 1932; they had two sons. Long served in the Intelligence Branch of the RAF during World War II. In Beverley he was also Music Master at

Beverley Grammar School Beverley Grammar School a boys’ day school secondary academy school in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. A school may have been founded here about 700 AD and on that basis the school is claimed to be the country's oldest grammar sch ...

from 1947. In 1949 he applied for the vacancy at

Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The cathedral has its origins in AD 672 when St Etheldreda built an abbey church. The presen ...

but was unsuccessful.

Appointments

*Organist at St. Mark's Church, Regent's Park, London 1928 - 1930 *Organist at

1930 - 1934 *Organist at

St Peter's Church, Brighton St Peter's Church is a church in Brighton in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is near the centre of the city, on an island between two major roads, the A23 London Road and A270 Lewes Road. Built from 1824–28 to a design by Sir Charles ...

1934 - 1938 *Organist at Beverley Minster 1938 - 1956 *Organist at

St Aldate's Church St Aldate's is a Church of England parish church in the centre of Oxford, in the Deanery and Diocese of Oxford. The church is on the street named St Aldate's, opposite Christ Church college and next door to Pembroke College. The church has a ...

, Oxford 1959 - 1963 *Music Master of Witney Grammar School 1963 onwards

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Long, John Herbert 1904 births 1985 deaths English organists British male organists Musicians from Norwich Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century English composers 20th-century organists 20th-century British male musicians