1703 – June 1758) was an English composer who held the office of Organist to the Chapel Royal from 1737 to 1758.
Before filling several parochial posts in London he had been a choir boy at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and a pupil of Johann Christoph Pepusch.
He afterwards studied with John Christopher Pepusch, and copied, according to Charles Burney, his style.
On 10 May 1737 he succeeded Jonathan Martin as organist of the Chapel Royal, a post which he held until his death in 1758.
[2] His church music (for example the extended anthem Ascribe unto the Lord) was used into the nineteenth century.