Background
BENNETT, George John was born on May 5, 1863 in Andover.
BENNETT, George John was born on May 5, 1863 in Andover.
Winchester College Choristers’ School. Studied at Royal Academy of Music, London, under Sir George Macfarren and Doctor Steggall, afterwards at Berlin under Kiel and Barth, and at Munich under Rheinberger and Bussmeyer. Organist, Saint John's, Wilton Road, London, 1890.
Conductor, Lincoln Musical Society and Lincoln Orchestral Society.
Fellow and Professor of the Royal Academy of Music. Examiner to the Associated Board Royal Academy of Music and R.C.M. Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
Has acted as examiner lor musical degrees at the Universities of Cambridge, Durham, and London. Conductor of the Lincoln Musical Festivals of 1896, 1899, 1902, 1906, and 1910.
Music. Doctor (Of Cambridge University). Organist and Choirmaster, Lincoln Cathedral, since 1895.
Club: German Athenaeum.
Spouse 1900, Marion,daughter of late Joseph Ruston, Justice of the Peace, Doctorate.L., Monks Manor, Lincoln.