[Sir]. English scholar and musician, born at Ebrington, Gloucestershire, on the 27th of December 1859. He was educated at Malvern and Worcester College, Oxford, and after taking his degree remained at Oxford as a tutor and fellow of his college. In 1909 he became principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle, retaining this post until 1919, when he became vice-chancellor of Sheffield University. He was in 1918 appointed assistant director of education for the troops by the War Office, and also worked for the Y.M.C.A. He was knighted in 1918. Sir Henry Hadow is well known as a great authority on the history of music, and also composed many songs and pianoforte pieces, besides the incidental music to Robert Bridges’s Demeter (1905). He published Studies in Modern Music (1894 and 1895); Sonata Form (1896); A Croatian Composer (1897); a valuable tract on Haydn and the source of many of his melodies and the section The Viennese Period (1904) in the Oxford History of Music, of which he was the editor. (See authored articles: Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert.)
