After Thalben-Ball’s fam­i­ly moved to Eng­land, he joined the choir of G. D. Cun­ning­ham in Mus­well Hill. He lat­er won a schol­ar­ship to the Roy­al Coll­ege of Mu­sic, and stu­died or­gan with Wal­ter Par­ratt. In 1916, he be­came or­gan­ist at Pad­ding­ton Par­ish Church. In 1919, he suc­ceed­ed Henry Walford Davies as or­gan­ist at the Temp­le Church, Lon­don, serv­ing there 62 years. The Arch­bi­shop of Can­te­rbury con­ferred the de­gree of Lam­beth Doc­tor of Mu­sic on Thal­ben-Ball in 1935. Thalben-Ball was knight­ed in 1982.

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2. Llanherne
3. Wisdom