Hollister and Son, Messrs.

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1751–1760

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

York Street

Details: 

Partnership of Philip Hollister and his son William Castles Hollister.

In 1751 'Messrs. Hollister and Son' built a new organ for the French chapel in St Patrick's Cathedral, indicating that Philip had taken William Castles into partnership at this date.

From at least 1751 until Philips's death in 1760, father and son worked together under the name 'Messrs. Hollister and Son'. In 1760, Philip's duties at St Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals were taken over by his son William Castles.

Select Product/Work List: 

Built

  • Organ: St Patrick's Cathedral, French Chapel, 1751 (Dublin Gazette, 23–27 July 1751, cited in Boydell, Calendar)
  • Organ: Cloyne Cathedral [additions], 1750, 1754, 1766 (Grindle)

    • Tuned and Maintained [during this period]

  • Organ: Christ Church Cathedral (Grindle)
  • Organ: St Patrick's Cathedral (Grindle)
  • Organ: St Mary's Church (Boydell, 'Hollister')
  • Organ: St Michan's Church (Boydell, 'St Michan's')
    • See: 

    Hollister, Philip
    Hollister, William Castles

    Source(s): 

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 29)

    Boydell, Brian, 'Hollister', in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, ed. by Stanley Sadie, 3 vols (London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1984), II, p. 228

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), pp. 150, 158, 260

    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. 48, 134, 142

    Boydell, Barra, 'St Michan's Church, Dublin: the Installation of the Organ in 1725 and the Duties of the Organist', Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies, 19 (1995), 74–96 (pp. 88–89)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Hollister, William (2)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 26-09-2013