Telford, William Hodgson

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1870–1890

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: organ
Address(es): 

109 St Stephen's Green

Details: 

A partner in Telford & Sons with his father William and his younger brother Edward Henry (Gillen).

In May 1890, the Impartial Reporter noted that 'W.H. Telford, who is a bachelor of music of T.C.D.' gave a recital on the newly built Telford organ in St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Enniskillen, 'the first organ recital ever given in Enniskillen'.

Select Product/Work List: 

Repaired/Rebuilt [by Telford & Sons, perhaps not by William Hodgson himself]

  • Organ: St Patrick's Cathedral, 1870, 1878 (Grindle)
  • Organ: St Werburgh's Church, 1882 [Miller organ] (Hughes)
    • See Also: 

    Telford, Edward Henry
    Telford, Henry
    Telford, William
    Telford & Telford
    Telford & Sons

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Impartial Reporter, 8 May 1890, p. 3

    Hughes, Rev. S.C., The Church of S. Werburgh, Dublin (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 1889), p. 33

    Grindle, W.H., Irish Cathedral Music: a History of Music at the Cathedrals of the Church of Ireland (Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989), pp. 145–60

    Gillen, Gerard, 'William Telford and the Victorian Organ in Ireland', in Music and the Church, ed. by Gerard Gillen and Harry White, Irish Musical Studies, II (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), pp. 108–28

    Last Update: 17-02-2017