Thomas Helmore Bande son

Thomas Helmore was a choirmaster, writer about singing and author and editor of hymns and carols. Helmore's father was a congregationalist minister. During the boy's childhood the family moved from Kidderminster to Stratford-upon-Avon, where Helmore later trained his father's choir and taught in a school which his father had founded. In 1837, he began his studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1840. He was or­dained in the Church of England in the same year, and took up a curacy at S...
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