Thomas Todd (piper)

Thomas Todd (c.1832 – 1908) was a player of the Northumbrian smallpipes, considered by William Cocks to be 'of highest rank'. One account, from 1890, states that he learned the pipes from Thomas Hair, a blind piper and fiddler of Bedlington, who also taught Todd's contemporary, Old Tom Clough.[1] A photograph of him is in the Cocks Collection, and was visible online.[2] It is known that Todd taught the pipers Tom Clough and Richard Mowat to play,[3] as well as Mary Anderson, known as 'Piper Mary'.[4] W. A. Cocks later noted that she was herself 'well known in her day as a piper of the first order'.[5]

  1. ^ Letter, Morpeth Herald, 7 June 1890, from British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "Collection Detail". www.experiencewoodhorn.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ The Clough Family of Newsham, Northumbrian Pipers' Society, ed. Chris Ormston and Julia Say (2000).
  4. ^ Morpeth Herald, 20 October 1888.
  5. ^ Northumbrian Pipers' Society Magazine, vol. 7, 1987.