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Barnby, Sir Joseph (1838-1896), composer and conductor, was born on 12 August 1838 at Swinegate, York, the youngest child in the family of fifteen children of Thomas Barnby, a shoemaker and organist, and his wife Barbara, née Robinson. At the age of seven he became a chorister at York Minster, ...
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Subjects: Biographical Studies ; History
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