# Kenneth Beard

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'''Kenneth Bernard Beard''' [FRCO(CHM)](/source/FRCO) (9 June 1927, in [Royton](/source/Royton), [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire) – 9 July 2010<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-bernard-beard&pid=144058862 |title=Kenneth Bernard BEARD Obituary: View Kenneth BEARD's Obituary by the Times |access-date=21 July 2010 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708111519/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-bernard-beard&pid=144058862 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) was an English Cathedral Organist.

==Education==
He attended [Kingswood School](/source/Kingswood_School), Bath,<ref>The succession of organists of the Chapel Royal and the cathedrals of England and Wales from c. 1538, Watkins Shaw, Clarendon Press, 1991</ref> and studied at the [University of Manchester](/source/University_of_Manchester) and the [Royal Manchester College of Music](/source/Royal_Manchester_College_of_Music) from 1946 to 1949.<ref>http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=97636 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>

After Manchester, he was organ scholar at [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge).

He was also made a Fellow of the [Royal College of Organists](/source/Royal_College_of_Organists) in 1949, and gained a Choirmaster diploma in 1954.

==Career==
He was: 
*Organist of [St. Michael's College, Tenbury](/source/St._Michael's_College%2C_Tenbury) 1952–1959<ref>St. Michael’s College Society Magazine, September 2008.</ref>
*Rector Chori of [Southwell Minster](/source/Southwell_Minster) 1959–1988
*Organist of [St Mary's Church, Mold](/source/St_Mary's_Church%2C_Mold)

During his time in Tenbury, he commissioned the anthem “Antiphon” from [Benjamin Britten](/source/Benjamin_Britten) and conducted the first performance on 29 September 1956 in the presence of the composer.<ref>Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976. Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke, Donald Mitchell, Boydell Press, 2008</ref>

At Southwell he was not only the organist of the Minster, but also head of Music of [Southwell Minster School](/source/Southwell_Minster_School).

He was awarded the [Cross of St Augustine](/source/Cross_of_St_Augustine) by [Rowan Williams](/source/Rowan_Williams), [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury), in 2008 in recognition of his service to church music.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1913 |title=The Archbishop of Canterbury - Archbishop to award Cross of St Augustine |accessdate=2010-07-23 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028042742/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1913 |archivedate=2010-10-28 }}</ref>

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{{s-ttl|title=[Organist](/source/Organist) of [St. Michael's College, Tenbury](/source/St._Michael's_College%2C_Tenbury)
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{{s-ttl|title=[Rector Chori](/source/Director_of_Music) of [Southwell Minster](/source/Southwell_Minster)
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