William Henry Harris

HARRIS, (Sir) William Henry. b. Tulse Hill, London, 28 March 1883; d. Petersfield, Hampshire, 6 September 1973. He was a pupil and assistant to Herbert Morris, organist of St David’s Cathedral, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 16. After obtaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in the same year (1899) he studied with Walter Parratt*, Charles Wood* and Walford Davies*. He served in the Artists’ Rifles during World War I, interrupting his first employment as assistant organist at Lichfield Cathedral (1911-1919) and as a teacher at the Birmingham and Midland Institute under Granville Bantock. In 1919 he took up the post of organist at New College,...