biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1816–80)
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| biography:
| Music educationist, born in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He became a Nonconformist minister in 1838, but devoted himself to promoting the tonic sol-fa musical system. His method came to be widely used, and in 1864 he left his ministry, having established a publishing house for music. |
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