Thom's Irish Who's Who/Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers

STANFORD, Sir Charles Villiers, Knt. (1902); b. 1852, at Dublin; B.A. (Cantab.), 1874; M.A. (1877); Mus.D. (1887); Hon. Mus. D. Oxford University: Hon. D.C.L. Durham University; Hon. LL.D. Leeds University; Hon. Member of the Beethoven Haus at Bonn; Hon. Corresponding Member of the Societé des Compositeurs de Musique, Paris; Hon. Member of the Society for the Advancement of Music, Amsterdam, Professor of Music in Cambridge University, 1887; Professor of Composition and Orchestral Playing at the Royal College of Music, 1883; Conductor of the Leeds Festival, 1901-10; son of late John Stanford, of Dublin; b. 1852; m. 1878, Jennie, dau of Champion Wetton, of Joldwynds, Surrey, and has issue one son and one dau. Res.: 9 Lower Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, W. Clubs: Athenaeum, Savile.