Edward James Bossward

Edward James Bossward (1825 – 18 September 1883) was an English organ builder based in Birmingham.

He was born in Hayes in 1825 and baptised on 22 May 1825, the son of Thomas Bossward and Jane Collinridge.

He married Eliza Gisborne in 1848 in King’s Norton, and they had ten children.

He trained as an organ builder with J.C. Bishop and then worked for William Hill.

[1] One of his pupils Walter James Bird continued the business after he died in 1883.