Osborne Peasgood, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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organist
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1902
Date of Death: 25-Jan-1962
Profession: music pedagogue
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Osborne Peasgood
- Dr.
- Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO (5 March 1902 – 25 January 1962) was an organist at Westminster Abbey who played at a number of state occasions in the Abbey, including the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Peasgood was born in London on 5 March 1902 and gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Music when he was 17.
- He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1926 followed by a doctorate at Dublin in 1936.
- Peasgood taught the organ at the Royal College of Music and had become sub-organist at Westminster Abbey from 1924.Peasgood also composed two services and from Handel's Water Music he published an edition of a suite for the organ.
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