Born: De­cem­ber 24, 1813, Bur­ton-on-Trent, Staff­ord­shire, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 10, 1858, Charles­ton, South Car­o­li­na, of yel­low fe­ver.

Buried: Charles­ton, South Car­o­li­na.

Greatorex got his ear­ly mu­sic­al train­ing from his fa­ther, or­gan­ist at West­min­ster Ab­bey. Hen­ry em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1839, and played the or­gan at Cen­ter Church and St. John’s Church in Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut; St. Paul’s Church and Cal­va­ry Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal Church, New York Ci­ty; and (from 1853) in Charles­ton, South Car­o­li­na. His works in­clude:

• A Col­lect­ion of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, An­thems, and Sen­tenc­es, Orig­in­al and Se­lect­ed, from the Best Stand­ard Com­pos­ers: Adapt­ed for the Use of the Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal Church in Amer­i­ca, and for Con­gre­ga­tions of Other De­nom­in­a­tions, as Well as for So­ci­e­ties and Schools (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Co., 1851)

Sources

Music

1. Bemerton
2. Elim
3. Gloria Patri
4. Grostette
5. Leighton
6. Manoah
7. Seymour
8. St. Gabriel