Rother, Henry William

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1762–1784

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: harpsichord
Musical instrument maker: organ
Musical instrument maker: spinet
Musical instrument maker: theorbo
Musical instrument maker: violoncello
Address(es): 

Great Booter Lane, 1762?–74
9 Great Booter Lane, 1775
9 Bishop Street, 1776–82

Details: 

Described in the Dublin Directories as an 'organ builder and harpsichord maker'.

[Details differ according to sources. Graham gives the dates as 1770 to 1784. Teahan lists two Rothers: Henry 'maker of organs, chamber organs, double and single upright harpsichords, spinets, theorbos, violoncellos' (1762–63) and Henry William 'organ and harpsichord maker' (1770–82). They are assumed here to be the same. Doyle refers to 'Willar Henry, Organ builder and harpsichord maker, Great Booter Lane', active in 1770. This is assumed to be Rother. Note: the addresses listed all represent the same premises: street numbers were introduced here in 1775, and in 1776 Great Booter Lane was renamed Bishop Street.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Produced

  • Harpsichord, 1774: National Museum of Ireland (Flood, 'Dublin Harpsichord and Pianoforte Makers' and Gogan)
  • Piano: National Museum of Ireland (Gogan)
    • Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Dublin, National Archives of Ireland, MS Graham M. 3075–89 (M. 3076)

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Harpsichord and Pianoforte Makers of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 39.2 (1909), 137–45 (pp. 141–42)

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Irish Organ-Builders from the Eighth to the Close of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 40.3 (30 September 1910), 229–34 (p. 233)

    Gogan, L.S., 'Musical Instrument Collections in the National Museum of Ireland', in Music in Ireland: a Symposium, ed. by Aloys Fleischmann (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 299–307 (p. 304)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 31)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 107

    Doyle, Paul, ‘18th Century Musical Instruments in the National Museum Dublin, with notes on an English Guitar 1764 by Gibson of Dublin’, FOMRHI Quarterly, 13 (October 1978), 21-24 (p. 21)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Rowther, Henry William’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 15-03-2017