Thomas Ebdon

Thomas Ebdon (1738–1811) was a British composer and organist born in Durham.

He was a chorister at Durham Cathedral and was a pupil of James Heseltine, the organist there.

He succeeded Heseltine in the office, aged 35,[1] after some wrangling between the Chapter and Dean.

[2] He is most famous for the evening part of his Service in C, and his setting of the Preces and Responses.

A march by Ebdon, for wind and brass (published by Dale of London in 1792), was composed for the installation in 1788 of William Lambton (1764–97) as the first Provincial Grand Master of Durham.