Joseph Harris

• An English composer, organist, and singer; his work was strongly influenced by Handel.
• Baptism record here - 8 Oct 1743 at St Nicholas, Bristol: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1W8-LZN
• 1st marriage record, to Anne Harris, was in Jan 1767: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL96-WMV
• 2nd marriage (to Ann(e) Silvester, St Martin's Birmingham, says 29 Oct 1764?? But handwritten family tree and other information suggests 1771 - ?: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ49-TJ2
• Buried in Birmingham, 23 Feb 1814, aged 57: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YH-GQH (although Biographical Dictionary reports that he died in Liverpool).
• Death reported in "The monthly magazine", Vol 39, no. 3 (no. 267) of 1 April 1815, at Ecclesham Lodge, near Wrexham, "...many years organist at St Martin's Church, Birmingham...". http://bit.ly/22Onybp

Reference Links

• https://birminghamcathedral.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/music-in-eight... "Joseph Harris One final figure deserves attention – for being another true professional with a nation-wide reputation. Joseph Harris was not a native of Birmingham; born in Bristol, he gained a B.A. from Oxford in 1773 at the time he was organist at Ludlow. As a virtuoso keyboardist he gained prominence in concerts around the region, appearing in Birmingham several times during the 1770s and early 1780s before gaining the post of organist at St. Martin’s in 1787. Among his pupils was Anne Boulton, daughter of the Birmingham industrialist and Lunar Society member Matthew Boulton."
• Google Books: Joseph Harris (A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800 Vol. 7, Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans, SIU Press, 1982, p.135)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Harris_%28organist%29