Composer, born in London, England, UK. He studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His love of all things Celtic was expressed early in Irish short stories, which he wrote under his pseudonym, and musically in orchestral pieces (1912--13), songs set to the words of revival poets, the choral St Patrick's Breastplate (1923--4), and An Irish Elegy (1917), for English horn, harp, and strings. Between 1921 and 1939 he wrote his seven symphonies. Other works include tone poems, such as In the Faery Hills (1909) and Tintagel (1917), chamber music, and piano concertos. In 1942 he was made Master of the King's (from 1952 Queen's) Musick.