Composer, born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. He studied in Nottingham and at the Royal Academy of Music, London, working as a violinist. Sir Henry Wood performed several of his early works at Promenade Concerts. Success as a composer of attractive light music enabled him to devote himself to composition after 1918. Among his best-known compositions are the London Suite (1933), The Three Elizabeths (1944), and a number of popular waltzes and marches.