Theodore Edward Aylward

Born: February 28, 1844, Salisbury, England. Died: February 6, 1933, Cardiff, Wales. Son of Will­iam Price Ayl­ward (or­gan­ist at St. Mar­tin, and lat­er, St. Ed­mund, Sal­is­bu­ry), The­o­dore stu­died at Sal­is­bu­ry Ca­thed­ral un­der C. J. Read, with Sam­u­el Wes­ley to whom he was ar­ti­cled, and George Mac­far­ren. Ayl­ward con­tin­ued to work his ar­ti­cles with Wes­ley af­ter the lat­ter’s ap­point­ment to Glou­ces­ter Ca­thed­ral. Aylward played the or­gan at the Church of St. Mat­thew, Chel­ten­ham; St. Co­lum­ba’s Col­lege, Rath­farn­ham, Coun­ty Dub­lin (from 1866); St. Mar­tin’s, Sal­is­bu­ry and St. Ma­ry’s, Spring Grove, in the Di­o­cese of Lon­don; Llan­daff Ca­thed­ral (1870-1876); Chi­ches­ter Ca­thed­ral (1876-1886); and St. And­rew’s Church, Car­diff (1886-1925). He com­posed sets of pre­ces and re­spons­es, fes­tal and fer­i­al, and a li­ta­ny, pub­lished as a col­lect­ion in 1877.