Herbert Stanley Oakeley

OAKELEY, (Sir) Herbert Stanley. b. Ealing, Midlesex, 22 July 1830; d. Eastbourne, Sussex, 26 October 1903. The second son of the Rev Sir Herbert Oakeley, third Baronet (1791-1845), he was educated at Rugby School (1843-6) and Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1853). While studying at Oxford he took harmony lessons with Stephen Elvey* at New College. His musical studies were completed in Leipzig and Bonn: he took piano lessons with Ignaz Moscheles and Louis Plaidy in Leipzig (1855), and organ lessons with Johann Schneider in Dresden and H. K. Breidenstein in Bonn (1863). He also became acquainted on the continent with Liszt and Meyerbeer, and wrote criticism at home and abroad for The Manchester...