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| Fr. Burge was an accomplished musician and an authority on church music. He was a founder of the ] in ] but resigned from the Committee in 1913. He composed Chant of the Monks for the Liverpool 700th Anniversary Pageant and also a song 'Poor Lorraine'. | Fr. Burge was an accomplished musician and an authority on church music. He was a founder of the ] in ]<ref>Archives of the Rodewald Concrt Society, Liverpool Record Office, Ref 780 RCS/1/1/1, 27 Apr 1911</ref> but resigned from the Committee in 1913. He composed Chant of the Monks for the Liverpool 700th Anniversary Pageant and also a song 'Poor Lorraine'. | ||
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The Right Reverend Thomas Anselm Burge O.S.B. was a Parish Priest and became Abbot of Westminster. He was born in 1864 died on 17 July 1929.
Church Life
Fr. Burge was Parish Priest of St. Austin’s Grassendale from 1899 and lived at the Presbytery in Aigburth Road until his death in 1929.
Private life
Fr. Burge was an accomplished musician and an authority on church music. He was a founder of the Rodewald Concert Society in Liverpool but resigned from the Committee in 1913. He composed Chant of the Monks for the Liverpool 700th Anniversary Pageant and also a song 'Poor Lorraine'.
Reference:
- Liverpool Archdiocese Directory and Guide to the Quarant’ Ore, 1930, p. 29
- Archives of the Rodewald Concrt Society, Liverpool Record Office, Ref 780 RCS/1/1/1, 27 Apr 1911