This is a roll of Presidents of the Suffolk Organists' Association since its inception on Saturday February 10th, 1934.

I understand that a Journal has been produced for much of that time and in particular, John Cooper, President in the nineteen seventies, was an assiduous producer of the Journal for a stretch of 34 years. John produced Journal No 115 in 2009 to celebrate 75 Years in which there is a fine picture of Jonathan Job, the first President of the Ipswich Association of Organists now known as the Suffolk Organists Association.

  • 1934-1936 Jonathan Job FRCO
  • 1936-37 Bernard Southgate FRCO FTCL
  • 1937-1938 Revd. H Ruglys
  • 1938-1939 Walter A Rose
  • 1939-1940 W F Mahony
  • 1940-1941 A R Steward
  • 1941-1942 T Uff
  • 1942-1943 Robert E L Shipp
  • 1943-1945 Walter A Rose
  • 1945-1946 Revd. H Ruglys
  • 1946-1947 Miss E V Harvey
  • 1947-1948 David W J Collins
  • 1948-1949 Frank J Andrews ARCO
  • 1949-1951 T Bates Wilkinson ARCO
  • 1951-1952 Robert E L Shipp
  • 1952-1953 John W Goldsmith
  • 1953-1954 Thomas E Reed FRCO LTCL
  • 1954-1955 Reginald G Kell ARCO LTCL
  • 1955-1956 Frank E Davies FRCO
  • 1956-1957 Gordon Hawkins
  • 1957-1959 Norman H Jones FRCO LTCL
  • 1959-1960 Felix la T Budgett BSc(Eng) AMIEE
  • 1960-1961 Mrs. C M Gillingwater
  • 1961-1962 Jeffrey M Guffogg
  • 1962-1963 T F Harrison Oxley MA BMus FRCO ARCM
  • 1963-1965 Percy C Kibble
  • 1965-1966 Arthur H Borrett
  • 1966-1967 Arthur E Runneckles
  • 1967-1968 Colin B Edgar
  • 1968-1969 Peter Clarke ALCM
  • 1969-1970 Miss H F Jewers
  • 1970-1971 Norman H Jones FRCO LTCL
  • 1971-1972 Reginald G Kell ARCO LTCL
  • 1972-1973 David Brand
  • 1973-1974 Geoffrey Pawlyn
  • 1974-1975 Michael Woodward
  • 1975-1977 John H Cooper MMus FRCO(CHM) ARCM
  • 1977-1978 Geoffrey A Hannant ARCM
  • 1978-1980 Revd. Michael C Booker LTh ARCO LLCM
  • 1980-1981 Joy Dupont GRSM ARCM
  • 1981-1982 Timothy J C Lawford MA FRCO(CHM) LRAM ARCM
  • 1982-1983 John Harding ARIBA FRA ARCO
  • 1983-1984 Frank E Davies FRCO
  • 1984-1985 Gray Silversides MSc FIFireE
  • 1985-1986 Jim Scofield MA
  • 1986-1988 Peter Crompton GRNCM PGCE
  • 1988-1989 Eric Leigh BA DMus FRCO
  • 1989-1990 Ann Little LRAM GRSM
  • 1990-1991 Anthony Roberts ARCO ALCM
  • 1991-1992 Keith Bond MA MusB FRCO ARMCM
  • 1992-1993 Mervyn Cousins MMus ARCO
  • 1993-1994 John H Cooper MMus FRCO(CHM) ARCM
  • 1994-1995 Peter Bumstead MA BMus
  • 1995-1996 Juliette Adams BMus MFA
  • 1996-1997 James Crowe MBE MA MBA FRSA
  • 1997-1998 John Ottley BA FRCO(CHM) ADCM
  • 1998-1999 Scott Farrell BA ARCO ARCM
  • 1999-2000 Derrick Hibberd
  • 2000-2001 Stephen Hogger BA FGSM FASC ALCM ACertCM
  • 2001-2002 Dawn Harding
  • 2002-2003 James Thomas MA FRCO PGCE
  • 2003-2004 Enid Hunt RGN RNT
  • 2004-2005 John H Cooper MMus FRCO(CHM) ARCM
  • 2005-2006 Ann Little LRAM GRSM
  • 2006-2008 James Crowe MBE MA MBA FRSA
  • 2008-2010 Peter Crompton GRNCM PGCE
  • 2010-2012 Roger Pulham DArch RIBA
  • 2012-2013 Andrew Garfath-Cox BA MEd DipMus
  • 2013-2014 William Saunders BA ARCO
  • 2014-2016 Andrew Garfath-Cox BA MEd DipMus
  • 2016-2017 Ann Little LRAM GRSM
  • 2017-2018 Martin Ellis FRCO
  • 2018-2022 Nicholas Jardine
  • 2022-2023 William Baldry BMus(Hons)
  • 2023-2024 Alan Loader