Samuel Myerscough

Who was Samuel Myerscough?

Samuel Myerscough was an acclaimed musician, teacher and examiner. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a Fellow of Trinity College London.

Samuel Myerscough was born in 1854 in Salford, Lancashire, England., a gifted musician, he was awarded the Royal College of Organists Medal in 1873. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music from Hertford College, Oxford in October 1881

He was appointed as assistant organist at Manchester Cathedral and the family moved there, he was a convert to Catholicism in 1899 accepted into the church by Fr. Bernard Vaughan S.J., gave up his job at the Cathedral and Dublin where he taught music in Loretto Abbey Rathfarnham. The first son of Samuel and Mary Myerscough was born in Rochdale on 2 April 1879, called Samuel Sebastian Myerscough and also a gifted musician and attained a Bachelor of Music at Oxford, became a Jesuit Priest, training at Oscott College Birmingham. His Daughter Alice Myerscough was also music teacher. The Myerscough family lived in 3 Fontenoy Terrace, Bray, Co Wicklow.