James Chapman Bishop

British organ builder (1783–1854) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James Chapman Bishop (1783 – 2 December 1854[1]) was a notable British organ manufacturer of the 19th century.[2]

The organ of 1829 in St James's Church, Bermondsey

History

He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250 Marylebone Road.

On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop (born 1821), John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as Bishop, Starr and Richardson from 1854 to 1857, and then Bishop and Starr from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became Bishop and Son.

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