Born: Au­gust 15, 1836, Nor­wich, Eng­land.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 10, 1908, Dur­ham, Eng­land.

A grad­u­ate of Ox­ford (MusB 1848, MusD 1864), Armes was a chor­is­ter under Zechariah Buck at Nor­wich, and at Rochester Ca­thed­ral, under J. L. Hopkins. He went on to serve as or­gan­ist at Trin­i­ty Church, Milton, Gravesend (1854); St. Andrew’s, Wells Street (1857); Chichester Ca­thed­ral (1861); Dur­ham Ca­thed­ral (1861-1907). He was al­so a Pro­fess­or of Mu­sic at Dur­ham Un­i­ver­si­ty (1897).

Sources

Music

1. Galilee
2. St. Bede