The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Find sources: "Charlton Templeman Speer" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Charlton Templeman Speer (21 November 1859 – 27 October 1921) also known as Charlton T. Speer was an English composer and spiritualist.

Career

Speer was born in Cheltenham, he was the son of physician Stanhope Templeman Speer. During the 1870s, William Stainton Moses tutored Speer.[1][2]

He became a successful composer and Professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music.[3] Like his father, Speer was a convinced spiritualist. He joined the London Spiritualist Alliance in March 1884.[4]

He married Amy Matilda Hallett in 1887. He died in Sutton, London.[5]

Compositions

Among his compositions were:

Publications

References

  1. ^ Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0521347679
  2. ^ Luckhurst, Roger (22 November 2021). "The Ghost Club, 1882–1936". Aries. 22 (1): 64–88. doi:10.1163/15700593-02201004. ISSN 1567-9896. S2CID 244548370.
  3. ^ "Biography of Charlton T. Speer". Bardon Music.
  4. ^ M. A. Oxon (William Stainton Moses). The London Spiritualist Alliance. Light. Volume 4. March 15, 1884. p. 108
  5. ^ "Charlton Templeman Speer". Rootsweb.
Categories