HUBERT PARRY Life&times

1848

LIFE: Hubert Parry is born on 27 February into a wealthy family. He is brought up at Highnam Court, a substantial country house near Gloucester.

TIMES: The Chartist movement stages a major rally in London’s Kennington Park. Its demands include suffrage for all men over 21 plus secret ballots at elections.

1870

LIFE: After studies at Eton and Oxford University, he becomes an underwriter at Lloyd’s of London. Two years later, he marries Elizabeth Maude Herbert.

TIMES: Prompted by the Franco-prussian War, Lord Wantage co-founds the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, adopting a red cross as its symbol.

1902

LIFE: He composes his anthem I was glad for the coronation of

Edward VII at Westminster Abbey. It will go on to be sung at every British coronation thereafter.

TIMES: Vladimir Lenin moves to London where, as well as editing the socialist newspaper Iskra, he meets fellow Marxist Leon Trotsky for the first time.

1895 1880

LIFE: As well as working as assistant editor at George Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, he makes a mark with large-scale works such as the groundbreaking Prometheus Unbound.

TIMES: The foundation stone is laid for Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, the first cathedral to be built on a new site in England since Salisbury in the 13th century.

LIFE: He is appointed director of the

Royal College of Music, where his list of distinguished pupils will include the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge and John Ireland.

TIMES: At a trial at the Old Bailey in London, Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency. He is sentenced to two years in Reading Gaol.

1918

LIFE: A victim of the Spanish flu pandemic, he dies on 7 October. At Stanford’s bidding, he is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral. TIMES: Women over 30 are given the right to vote for the first time in a British general election. Sinn Fein’s Constance Markievicz is elected the first female MP, but declines to take up her seat.