The latter include the Ground in Gamut ( described as ' Mr Byrd's old ground ') by his future pupil Thomas Tomkins, the A minor fantasia and probably the first of Byrd's great series of keyboard pavans and galliards, a composition which was transcribed by Byrd from an original for five-part consort.

Thomas Tomkins ( 1572-1656 ), eminent English musician and composer, was born in St David's.

In 1963, Waite was appointed Education Advisor to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, Oliver Tomkins, and assisted with Tomkins's implementation of the SALT ( Stewardship and Laity Training ) programme in the diocese, along with the Rev.

Between 1987 and 2001 Smith & Wesson was owned by the British engineering company Tomkins PLC.

The acquisition of Smith & Wesson was chiefly brokered by Saf-T-Hammer President Bob Scott, who had left Smith & Wesson in 1999 because of a disagreement with Tomkins ’ policies.

He was encouraged to write this book by his college friend and teacher Silvan S. Tomkins.

It was located at what is now Townsend Avenue and Tomkins Avenue.

Living in Littleville, Colorado, young Tommy Tomkins had such an obsession with flying that he was given the nickname Tailspin Tommy before he ever actually went inside a plane.

In 2003, Ginn and Tomkins were the surprise winners, beating the British favourites — and defending champions — Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell, which was a factor in Pinsent and Cracknell choosing to move to the coxless fours.

Thomas Tomkins ( 1572 – 9 June 1656 ) was a Welsh-born English composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period.

Tomkins was born in St David's in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1572.

In any case, all former Chapel Royal choristers were required to be found a place at university, and Tomkins was affiliated to Magdalen College, Oxford in 1607.

He continued writing verse anthems, and his collection of 28 madrigals, the Songs of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts was finally published in 1622 with a dedicatory poem by his half-brother John Tomkins ( circa 1587-1638 ), now organist of King's College, Cambridge ( later of St Paul's and of the Chapel Royal ), with whom Thomas maintained an intimate and loving relationship.

On James I's death in March 1625 Tomkins, with other Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, was required to attend to both the music for James's funeral and that for the coronation of Charles I.

These monumental tasks proved too much for Gibbons, who died of a stroke in Canterbury, where Charles was supposed to meet his future bride, Henrietta Maria of France, placing an even greater strain on Tomkins.

Because of plague, the coronation was luckily postponed until February 1626, giving Tomkins time to compose most of the eight anthems sung at the ceremony.

In 1628 Tomkins was named " Composer of King's Music in ordinary " at an annual salary of £ 40, succeeding Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger who died in March that year.

Worcester was one of the first casualties: the cathedral was desecrated, and Tomkins ' organ badly damaged by the Parliamentarians.

Charles I was executed in 1649, and a few days later Tomkins, always a royalist, composed his superb Sad Pavan: for these distracted times.

His second wife Martha died around 1653, and deprived of his living, Tomkins, now 81, was in serious financial difficulties.

Anyone who offered violent resistance would be shot, although Tomkins said in an interview that this was rare.

It was sold to London-based Tomkins plc that year for US $ 1. 1 billion.

Five men, sometimes dubbed " The Famous Five ", ( James Patrick Brady, Malcolm Norris, Peter Tomkins Jr., Joe Dion, Felix Callihoo ) were instrumental in having the Alberta government hold the " Ewing Commission " in 1934 dealing with land claims.

Although his pupils included Peter Philips and Thomas Tomkins, both of whom were active as keyboard composers, the native virginal school to which he had contributed so much went into sharp decline with a number of deaths in the 1620s and never recovered.

They are described by the historian Stephen Tomkins as " a network of friends and families in England, with William Wilberforce as its centre of gravity, who were powerfully bound together by their shared moral and spiritual values, by their religious mission and social activism, by their love for each other, and by marriage ".

This agreement signed by Tomkins PLC ended with the sale of Smith and Wesson to the Saf-T-Hammer Corporation.

However, with the sale of the company to British Tomkins PLC, Smith & Wesson exited the shotgun market in the mid -' 80s to return to their " core " market of handguns.

In 1623 he became senior organist at the Chapel Royal, with Thomas Tomkins as junior organist.

Examples of the genre include compositions by Christopher Tye ( the most prolific composer of In Nomines, with 24 surviving settings ), Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, William Lawes, and Henry Purcell, among many others.

Following this film role, Cutler recorded a second LP, Ludo ( 1967 ), produced by the Beatles ' George Martin, and credited to the Ivor Cutler Trio, made up of Cutler with bassist Gill Lyons and percussionist Trevor Tomkins.

Australian James Tomkins, competing in his fifth games at the age of 39, won his third gold medal, and fourth medal overall, teaming with his longtime partner Drew Ginn in the men's pair.

Tomkins and Ginn had been part of the straight four that won the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and they had won the 1999 World Championship in the pair, but Ginn had missed the 2000 Sydney Olympics with a severe back injury, and Tompkins had finished third with a new partner Matthew Long in the pair.

Ginn won the men's coxless fours at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics as part of Australia's Oarsome Foursome, along with Mike McKay, James Tomkins, and Nicholas Green ; Ginn replaced the retired Andrew Cooper.

In 2002, he returned to the water, teaming up with fellow Oarsome Foursome rower James Tomkins in the coxless pairs ; they finished fourth in the 2002 World Championships.

Many of the pieces in the book are short, and many of them are character pieces with droll and memorable titles, including " Put Up Thy Dagger, Jemy ", " The New Sa-Hoo ", and " Quodlings Delight " by Giles Farnaby ; " Nobody's Gigge ", by Richard Farnaby ; " Pakington's Pownde " and " The Irishe Dumpe " ( anonymous ); " The Ghost " and " The Earle of Oxford's Marche " by William Byrd ; " Worster Braules " by Thomas Tomkins ; and the famous " Lachrymae Pavan " by John Dowland, as arranged by Giles Farnaby and by William Byrd.

The duties connected with this post included regular journeys between Worcester and London, which Tomkins performed until about 1639.

Naturally, Mr. Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins.

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

** Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer ( d. 1656 )

* Thomas Tomkins of Wales ( 1572 – 1656 ), Cornish-Welsh composer

* June 9 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer ( b. 1572 )

Notable organists at Worcester have included Thomas Tomkins ( from 1596 ), Hugh Blair ( from 1895 ), Ivor Atkins ( from 1897 ) and David Willcocks ( from 1950 ).

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In 1621, Thomas Ravenscroft published an expanded edition of the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter ; Ravenscroft's edition added many more psalm tunes, some of which were composed since the first publication by leading late Tudor and early Stuart English composers such as Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, and Thomas Tomkins.

* Thomas Tomkins ( 1572 – 1656 )

In 1612 Tomkins oversaw the construction in Worcester cathedral of a magnificent new organ by Thomas Dallam, the foremost organ-builder of the day.