Artist Info: Thomas Chilcot

Thomas Chilcot (1707?–1766), was an English organist and composer.

Chilcot was born in the West of England (probably Bath) in or about 1707. Records of his birth, like most other records from his life, are now lost. Chilcot was educated at Bath Charity School, whose headmaster, Henry Dixon, had a strong interest in church music. On the 6th July 1721 Chilcot (presumably aged fourteen) was apprenticed to Josiah Priest, who had been the organist [read more...]