Edgar Pettman

PETTMAN, (Charles) Edgar. b. Dunkirk, Kent, 20 April 1866; d. London, 20 January 1943. Pettman studied at the Royal Academy of Music and held the post of organist at St Matthew’s, New Kent Road (ca.1885); St Mary’s, Kilburn (1888); St Bartholomew’s, Gray’s Inn Road; St Gabriel’s, Willesden Green (1896); St James’s, Piccadilly (1897-1902); and St Sepulchre’s, Holborn (1902-15). He later became a music editor. From the time of his first hymn tune publication, Four Evening Hymn-Tunes (1890), Pettman produced over a dozen hymn and carol collections and made a particular contribution to the revival of the European folk-carol. While Modern Christmas Carols (1892), and the Westminster Carol Book...