A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vowles, W. G.
VOWLES, W. G., organ-builder in Bristol, is the present owner of the business established in 1814 by John Smith. The latter died in 1847, and was succeeded by his step-son Joseph Monday. On the death of Monday in 1857 he was succeeded by his son-in-law Vowles. Smith built the organ in Bath Abbey, and Vowles those of the Cathedral and St. Mary Redcliffe in Bristol.
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