James Chapman Bishop


James Chapman Bishop was a notable British organ manufacturer of the 19th century.

History

He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250 Marylebone Road.
On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop, John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as Bishop, Starr and Richardson from 1854 to 1857, and then Bishop and Starr from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became Bishop and Son.

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