Egbert Foster Horner

HORNER, Egbert Foster. b. Greenwich, London, 11 February 1864; d. Paddington, London, 8 October 1928. He was a pupil of Frederick Bridge* at the Royal College of Music. He taught harmony and counterpoint at Trinity College, London, where he was Director of Examinations (1917-27). He was also an external examiner for Durham and Birmingham Universities. He was organist of St Alphege’s, Southwark (1884-86), of St Barnabas’, Tunbridge Wells (1886-90), St John’s Westminster (1890-1919), and Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, Paddington, London. Seven of Horner’s tunes appeared in the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book (1904), in which he is referred to as ‘Dr E.F. Horner’, which indicates that he must...