Francis Edward Gladstone


Francis Edward Gladstone in Summertown, Oxford, was an English organist. He was related to the politician William Ewart Gladstone.

Career

He was a pupil of Samuel Sebastian Wesley at Winchester Cathedral. He earned his Mus.Doc. at Cambridge University.
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He was also Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music and Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint there from 1884 to 1910.
He died in Hereford. An obituary observed: "He loved to be well prepared in everything. It was exactly like him, not only to have written the composition for his own funeral but to have coached the monks beforehand who were to sing it."