About Samuel Peirson
Lived 1647 – 1720 (aged 72–73). Samuel Peirson was a British organist.
Samuel Peirson (c. 1647 - 1720) was an English organist.
Career Peirson succeeded John Reading as Organist of Chichester Cathedral in October 1677. He was suspended for three months in 1711 for his public assertion that "the late King William was a pickpocket... he had no more religion than a dog!". It was during Peirson's tenure of office that Renatus Harris installed the Main Organ in the cathedral. He died in office at Chichester.
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English organist
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Samuel Peirson was born in 1647.
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