Theodore Stephen Tearne Mus Bac, L. Mus, F.S.Sc. (15 December 1857 – 2 February 1926) was an Irish-born organist and composer, who worked in

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and

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Life

He was born in Dublin on 15 December 1857, the son of Theodore Sheldon Tearne and Macdonald Stephen. Tearne graduated Mus Bac in 1880 from Oxford University, attending New College, where he matriculated 5 February 1877. He was a pupil of

Samuel Sebastian Wesley Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810 – 19 April 1876) was an English organist and composer. Wesley married Mary Anne Merewether and had 6 children. He is often referred to as S.S. Wesley to avoid confusion with his father Samuel Wesley. Bio ...

Gloucester Cathedral Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishment of a minster dedicated to S ...

, and then Sir George Elvey at

St. George's Chapel, Windsor St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...

. He was on the board of examiners for the London College of Music, and for the Society of Science, London, and is one of the representatives of the Royal Academy of Music and of Trinity College London. He married Mary Maud Lee in St. James' Church, Westley on 22 January 1891 They had the following children *Donna Mary Tearne (1892–1971) *Theodora Maud Tearne (1897–1970) *Joyce Debenham Tearne (1899–1991) Theodore Stephen Tearne died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 2 February 1926. He is buried at Manly Cemetery.

Appointments

*Organist of

St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, also known as Edgbaston Old Church, is a parish church in the Church of England in Edgbaston, Birmingham. History The Grade II listed church is medieval, but was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. The cha ...

, Birmingham 1889Gloucester Citizen, Friday 30 November 1888 – 1903 *Organist of

St James' Church, Handsworth St James' Church in Handsworth, Birmingham, England was erected as an Anglican church in 1838–1840 (Handsworth was at that time in the county of Staffordshire) on land given by John Crockett of the nearby New Inns Hotel. The architect was Rob ...

1904–08 *Superintendent of Music in the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction. 1908 – ca. 1920

Compositions

His compositions included *"The Bell Amen Cadence", to be sung at the close of service 1886 *"The Edgbaston Angelus", 1897 *"Gavotte and Musette", 1886 *"Saviour, Before Thy Throne", 1906

References

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