James Kendrick Pyne

James Kendrick Pyne (5 February 1852 – 3 September 1938) was an English organist and composer.

[3] At the age of 12 his father sent him to study with Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist at Winchester and later Gloucester Cathedral.

A year later Pyne returned to England to Manchester where he would become a leading figure in the musical life of the city.

[1] He lived at Milverton Lodge, on Anson Road in Victoria Park, Manchester.

[5] Pyne's studio 4-manual instrument which was his teaching instrument at the Royal Manchester College of Music is now at St Peter's Collegiate Church in Ruthin, Denbighshire, and was rebuilt by Henry Willis & Sons in 2003.