Guthrie Foote

FOOTE, Guthrie. b. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 15 January 1897; d. 11 January 1972. He studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music and (after war service in the Great War) conducting at the Royal College of Music. He was conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company before joining the music department of Oxford University Press, where he later took charge of the publication of hymnbooks and worship books. He was music editor of Infant Praise (1964): the Press copy (in the Pratt Green Collection, Durham University Library) indicates that Foote arranged most of the accompaniments for piano. He is known for three arrangements, but also for two original tunes in CH3: INTO THY KEEPING for the one-verse...