Barry Michael Rose (born 24 May 1934) is a renowned choir trainer and organist. He is best remembered for conducting the choir of St Paul's Cathedral at the wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer and HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday 29 July 1981. May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... St Pauls Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Born in Chingford, England, Barry Rose grew up accompanying the choir of his local church. After a spell as organist at St. Andrew's, Kingsbury, at the age of 25 he became the youngest cathedral organist in the country when he was appointed to the position of Master of Music at Guildford Cathedral. He moved to St Paul's Cathedral in 1974 as Sub-organist and was appointed Master of the Choir in 1977. He left St Paul's in 1984 after a difference of opinion with senior members of the clergy, and became Master of the Choirs at the King's School, Canterbury. From 1971 to 1986 he was Religious Music Adviser to the BBC, a job that included booking the choirs for the weekly 'Choral Evensong' broadcasts. His last post was that of Organist & Master of the Choristers at St Albans Cathedral, from which he retired on Christmas Day, 1997. In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List announced on 13 June 1998 he was awarded an OBE for his services to cathedral music. Guildford Cathedral claims to be the only cathedral to be built on a new site in the southern Province of England since the Reformation. Guildford was made a diocese in its own right in 1927, and work on its new cathedral, designed by Sir Edward Maufe, began nine years later. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in the City of Canterbury district of Kent in South East England. ... St Albans Cathedral from the west. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand...