English composer. Choir member at York Minster in 1618; perhaps served Charles I; honored by Playford in his Musicall Banquet(London, 1651); organist and musician to Cromwell, 1654-58; named viol player and instrument repairer at court upon the Restoration in 1660. Later became a member of the Chapel Royal and a deputy marshal of London. Blow was his pupil, Purcell his apprentice. His music, much of which is lost, includes works for viols, organ, and chorus.