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David Patrick Gedge MBE FRCO (12 March 1939 - 2 July 2016) was an organist based in England and Wales. He was a chorister in Southwark Cathedral from 1947, and educated in St Olave's Grammar School in London, the Royal Academy of Music, and the University of London. Organist of St. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, London 1957-1962. Organist of Selby Abbey 1962-1966. Organist of Brecon Cathedral 1966-2007 He was awarded the Turpin Prize in 1962 when he achieved his FRCO. He was made a MBE in 1996, and received the Archbishop of Wales Award for Church Music in 1997. He has written two autobiographies A Country Cathedral Organist Looks Back and More From a Country Cathedral Organist. Both autobiographies were self-published and received mixed reviews.