Lionel Frederick Dakers

Lionel Frederick Dakers (1924 – 2003) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Ripon Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral.^[1]

Contents 1 Background 2 Family life 3 Career 4 References

Background

Lionel Frederick Dakers was born on 24 February 1924 in Rochester, Kent.^[2] He studied organ under Harold Aubie Bennett at Rochester Cathedral and Edward Bairstow at York Minster.^[3]

He was a Special Commissioner for the Royal School of Church Music in 1958–1972, Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1972–1990; President of the Incorporated Association Of Organists 1972–1975; Secretary of the Cathedral Organists' Association 1972–1988; President of the Royal College of Organists 1976–1978.

He was awarded the CBE in 1983.

Family life

He married Elisabeth Williams (d. 1997) in 1952. They had 4 daughters.

He died in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 10 March 2003.

Career

Assistant organist of:

• St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (1950–1954)

Organist of:

• All Saints' Church, Frindsbury, Rochester (1939–1942)
• Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, Cairo (1945–1947)
• Finchley Parish Church (1948–1950)
• Ripon Cathedral (1954–1957)
• Exeter Cathedral (1957–1972)

References

Cultural offices
Preceded by Charles Henry Moody	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Ripon Cathedral 1954-1957	Succeeded by Philip Marshall
Preceded by Reginald Moore	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Exeter Cathedral 1957-1972	Succeeded by Lucian Nethsingha

Persondata
Name	Dakers, Lionel
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Date of birth	1924
Place of birth
Date of death	2003
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