David Patrick Gedge MBE FRAM[1] FRSCM[2] HonFGCM[3] GRSM FRCO LRAM[4] (1 March 1939 – 2 July 2016) was an organist based in England and Wales.
[6][7][8] Paul Gedge was a parish priest, lastly in Southwark / Lambeth and an author;[9] a friend of Eric Crozier and the influence to the character Mr. Gedge in Benjamin Britten's opera Albert Herring.
[10][11] On David's mother's side, he was a great-nephew to the organist Hubert Stanley Middleton.
He was made a MBE in 1993,[13] and received the Archbishop of Wales award for church music in 1997.
During this time, the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon was led by a succession of bishops, including William Thomas Havard (1965–1976), Benjamin Noel Young Vaughan (1976–1991), Anthony Edward Pierce (1991–1998), and John David Edward Davies (1999–2008) Gedge wrote two volumes of memoirs, A Country Cathedral Organist Looks Back (2005) and More From a Country Cathedral Organist (2008).