Telford & Sons

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1870–?

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

109 St Stephen's Green

Details: 

Succeeded the business of Telford & Telford.

Partnership of William Telford and his two sons, William Hodgson and Edward Henry (Gillen).

The Telford family firms were the leading Irish organ builders of the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. As well as repairing and rebuilding many older instruments in Dublin and throughout the country, they build over one hundred organs in churches and cathedrals throughout Ireland, and many instruments for colleges, convents, private houses etc.

William Telford died in 1885 (Gillen).

Select Product/Work List: 

Repaired/Rebuilt

  • 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, William Hodgson
    Telford & Telford

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    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: 19-09-2013