Thomas Dallam

Thomas Dallam (bap. 1575, d. in or after 1630) was an English organ-builder and diarist.

Life Thomas Dallam was baptised at Flixton, Lancashire, on 1 May 1575, probably the son of Thomas Dalham, who was an itinerant blacksmith. One daughter, Catherine, by her marriage to the organ builder Thomas Harris, was the mother of the organ builder Renatus Harris. 1607–8: Norwich Cathedral. 1609–10: St George’s Chapel, Windsor. 1613: Worcester Cathedral (to the scheme of Thomas Tomkins). 1613–14: Eton College. c.1615: Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh (case by Inigo Jones). c.1617: St John’s College, Oxford. 1620: Wells Cathedral. 1620: All Saints, Wakefield. 1621: Durham Cathedral. 1629: Bristol Cathedral (Robert Dallam).

The legacy of surviving instruments is minimal, because much of his work was destroyed by people hostile to church organs following the outbreak of the English Civil War.