Sir
William Henry Hadow
CBE
Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
In office
1916–1918
Preceded byHenry Gee
Succeeded byJohn Stapylton Grey Pemberton
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
In office
1919–1930
Preceded byWilliam Ripper
Succeeded byArthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
Personal details
Born1859
Ebrington, England
Died1937
Spouse
Edith Troutbeck
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(m. 1930; died 1937)​
Alma materWorcester College, Oxford
Profession

Sir William Henry Hadow CBE (27 December 1859 – 8 April 1937) was a leading educational reformer in Great Britain, a musicologist and a composer.

Life

Born at Ebrington in Gloucestershire and baptised there on 29 January 1860 by his father, he was the eldest child of the Reverend William Elliot Hadow (1826–1906) and his wife Mary Lang Cornish (1835–1917).[1] His grandfather, the Reverend William Thomas Hadow, had married Eleanor Ann Bethune, daughter of Colonel John Drinkwater Bethune.[2]

He studied at Malvern College,[3] followed by Worcester College, Oxford, where he taught and became Dean (1889).[4] In 1905, Hadow was elected the first Old Malvernian member of the Council of Malvern College.[5] In 1909, he was appointed principal of Armstrong College in the Newcastle Division of Durham University before succeeding, as Warden and vice-chancellor of the University of Durham in 1916. In 1919, he was appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University (1919–30).

As chairman of several committees, he published a series of reports on education, notably The Education of the Adolescent (1926). This called for the re-organization of elementary education and the abandonment of all-age schools (separate schools from the age of 11, when existing schools, both state and voluntary (i.e. associated with a particular religious denomination), often educated children up to the age of 14, the school leaving age under the Education Act 1918), and the creation of secondary modern schools for children over the age of 11. These became known as the Hadow Reports. He was a leading influence in English education at all levels in the 1920s and 1930s. He chaired a committee, established in 1926 jointly by the British Broadcasting Company (later BBC) and the British Institute of Adult Education, to report on the possibilities of using radio broadcasting for education. The results were published as a book, "New Ventures in Broadcasting - A Study in Adult Education".[6]

Hadow wrote and edited a number of publications on literature, music and music theory. He took on the general editorship of the original six-volume edition of the Oxford History of Music between 1901 and 1905, writing the fifth volume (covering the period from C.P.E. Bach to Schubert) himself.[7] With his younger sister Grace Hadow he edited The Oxford Treasury of English Literature (1907–8).[8]

He was also a composer, mostly of chamber works between 1892 and 1897. Many of these have now been lost (including the 1889 Violin Sonata in Ab, the Piano Trio in G minor and the Violin Sonata in A minor), but two were published: his Piano Sonata in G sharp minor by Augener in 1885, and his String Quartet by Novello in 1886.[9] Manuscript copies of the Violin Sonata in F major (1891) and his last chamber work, the Clarinet Sonata of 1897 have survived. Some songs and incidental music followed the Clarinet Sonata, but nothing after 1912.[10] In 1917 he delivered the Master-Mind Lecture, on Beethoven.[11]

Hadow was awarded a Knight Bachelor in 1918[12] and a CBE in 1920. He was also a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Music

Hadow's grave in Brookwood Cemetery in 2018

In 1930 in London, when he was 70 years old, he married a long-standing friend, Edith Troutbeck (1863-1937), daughter of the musicologist and translator John Troutbeck.[13][14] She died a few weeks before his own death in Westminster, London. They are buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester, England, Reference Number:GDR/V1/471 Bishop's Transcript of the baptismal register of Ebrington http://www/ancestry.co.uk/ (subscription required) Retrieved 11 November 2015
  2. ^ John Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Colburn, 1836, volume 3, p381 https://books.google.com/ Retrieved 11 November 2015
  3. ^ The Malvern Register (1865-1904), 1905
  4. ^ "W.H. Hadow's Visit". The New York Times. 15 August 1903.
  5. ^ The Council, The Malvern Register (1865-1904), 1904
  6. ^ "The Hadow Committee". BBC Hand Book 1929 (PDF). BBC. 1928. pp. 42–45.
  7. ^ The New Oxford History of Music[dead link]
  8. ^ Hadow, G. E.; Hadow, W. H., eds. (1907–1908). Oxford Treasury of English Literature. Vol. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (1st edition of vol. 1 published in 1916)
  9. ^ String Quartet in E♭ major, IMSLP
  10. ^ Simmons, Jennifer R. So Deft a Builder: an account of the life and work of Sir Henry Hadow, University of Sheffield thesis, 1978
  11. ^ Hadow, W. H. (1917). "Beethoven". Proceedings of the British Academy. 8: 135–156.
  12. ^ "New Year Honours. The Official Lists., New Peers And Baronets., Long Roll of Soldiers. (transcription)". The Times. No. 41675. London. 1 January 1918. p. 8; col B. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  13. ^ Shera, F. H. (May 2006). "Hadow, Sir (William) Henry (1859–1937)". In David J. Golby (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33631. Retrieved 20 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ^ a b Lloyd, Stephen (ed.). Music in Their Time: The Memoirs and Letters of Dora and Hubert Foss (2019), p 51–58
  15. ^ Sonata Form, at IMSLP
  16. ^ "Review of The Oxford History of Music. Volume V. The Viennese Period by W. H. Hadow". The Oxford Magazine. 23. The Proprietors: 145–146. 25 January 1905.

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