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"SIR WILLIAM HENRY HADOW (1859-), English scholar and musician, was born at Ebrington, Glos., Dec. 27 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 vicechancellor 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' 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.