1865-1934
Edwin H. Lemare (1865-1934)

Sep­tem­ber 9, 1865, Vent­nor, Isle of Wight, Hamp­shire, Eng­land.

Sep­tem­ber 24, 1934, Hol­ly­wood, Cal­i­forn­ia.

Lemare re­ceived the Goss schol­ar­ship at the Bri­tish Roy­al Acad­e­my of Mu­sic (RAM) in 1878, and went on to be­came a fel­low of the RAM and the RCO (Roya­l Col­lege of Or­gan­ists?). He played the or­gan at St. John the Evan­gel­ist’s, Browns­wood Park; St. An­drew’s Church, and Pub­lic Hall, Cardiff, Wales; the Par­ish Church, Shef­field (1886); Ho­ly Trin­i­ty Church, Sloane Street; and St. Mar­ga­ret’s Church, West­min­ster. He made a re­cit­al tour of Ca­na­da and Amer­i­ca in 1900, and al­so toured Eur­ope, Aus­tral­ia, and New Zea­land, where he helped de­sign or­gans for the Auck­land Town Hall. He played the or­gan at the Car­ne­gie In­sti­tute in Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia (1902-15). He gave re­cit­als at the Pa­na­ma-Pa­ci­fic Ex­po­si­tion in San Fran­cis­co, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1915, and was mu­ni­ci­pal or­gan­ist in San Fran­cis­co (1917-21) and Port­land, Maine (1921).

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Le­mare’s bur­i­al place