Harry Grindle - Telegraph He read French Language and Literature at Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Strasbourg before moving to London to take up a teaching post. He studied organ-playing with Flor Peeters in Belgium, and orchestral conducting with Sir Adrian Boult in Kent. Returning to Northern Ireland in 1962, Grindle was appointed organist at Bangor parish church, before being appointed organist and Master of the Choristers at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, a post he held until 1975, when he was appointed to a senior music lectureship at Stranmillis College of Education. In 1986 Grindle established the Priory Singers, which undertook a number of residencies at several English cathedrals, including Hereford, Gloucester, Lincoln and Chichester. He served as music editor of Sing & Pray, a hymn book issued in 2009 for use in both Sunday and primary schools. His hymn tune Stranmillis, a prize-winner in the St Paul's Cathedral millennium hymn competition, was subsequently included in the latest edition of the St Paul's Cathedral Hymnal. His book on Irish cathedral music is widely regarded as a definitive work on the subject. In 1977 Grindle became the first Irish musician to be elected to an associateship of the Royal School of Church Music . In 2005 he was awarded a Lambeth degree, a Doctorate in Music, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and three years later was among those chosen to receive the Royal Maundy from the Queen in Armagh Cathedral. He was appointed MBE in 2009 for services to music. His busy and varied career was the subject of a film documentary shown on Ulster Television. Harry Grindle is survived by Heather, his wife of 45 years, and their two daughters . Harry Grindle, born October 2 1935, died July 4 2013