Philip Armes

Philip Armes (15 August 1836 – 10 February 1908) was an English organist, notably holding posts at Rochester, Chichester and Durham Cathedral.

[1] Armes was a chorister at the cathedral of his native city, Norwich, between 1846 and 1848, under Zechariah Buck.

He was an articled pupil of John Larkin Hopkins, organist of Rochester Cathedral.

[5] He had married, in 1864, Emily Jane, the daughter of Sir Henry Davison, chief justice of the Madras High Court;[6][1] they had two sons, Augustus and Algernon, and two daughters, Emily and Alice.

[4][8] Armes wrote oratorios, church music, madrigals, psalm chants and organ pieces.