In 1857 Sharp became organist at St John's Church, and was the driving force behind purchase of a new instrument by Charles Brindley of Sheffield, England, which arrived in the Alfred Hawley in 1862.
[3] He took charge of the Mechanics' Institute organ[4] (a very fine instrument but poorly maintained) after Sharpe left to preside at All Saints' Church, Southampton.
[12] In October 1884, when the Sydney City Council announced that tenders were about to be called for an organ for the about-to-be-built Centennial Hall, Sharp was highly critical of the process, complaining that organists, architects and other experts were not being consulted.
[13] The outcome was a ten-member panel which drew up a table of specifications, called for tenders, and oversaw installation.
[16] Sharp died in 1912 on the steamer Suevic, at sea between Adelaide and Melbourne,[17] on a return trip from England with his sister.
He ran an "Academy of Music" from 1875 from his residence at 31 Lower Fort Street, then "Denham House", opposite the University on Newtown Road, in 1878 and 1879[20] From 1880 or earlier to 1883 Sharp was living at "Percy House" opposite Prince Alfred Park, 315 Cleveland Street, Redfern, where he conducted his Academy.
Examples are: Congregational Church, Bourke Street, opened 1888, one by Forster & Andrews for All Saints' Church, Woollahra[12] and, famously, the Hill & Son Grand Organ in Sydney Town Hall, when his was the only dissenting voice from the final design.
She left Launceston for Sydney on account of her health, and became a teacher of deaf and dumb at Goulburn, later Brisbane.