Born: March 18, 1821, St. Marylebone, Eng­land.

Died: Ju­ly 13, 1891, Howley Place, Pad­ding­ton, Eng­land.

Nephew of Catherine Stephens, Count­ess of Es­sex, Charles stu­died un­der Cip­ri­a­ni Pot­ter, J. A. Ham­il­ton, and Hen­ry Bla­grove. He joined the Roy­al So­ci­e­ty of Mu­si­cians in 1843, and the Phil­har­mon­ic So­ci­e­ty in 1857 (and was lat­er its di­rect­or). He played the or­gan at St. Mark’s, Mid­dle­ton Square; Ho­ly Trin­i­ty, Pad­ding­ton (1846); St. Mark’s, Ham­il­ton Ter­race (1862); and St. Sav­iour’s, Pad­ding­ton (1872-5). He al­so served as ex­am­in­er for mu­sic­al de­grees at Cam­bridge Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1880.

Sources

Music

1. Blagdon
2. Howley Place
3. In Storm
4. Litany for Those at Sea (Part 1, Part 2)
5. Westbourne