Battison Haynes

He went on to study with Franklin Taylor[3] (piano) and Ebenezer Prout (harmony) at Oscar Beringer's Academy for the Higher Development of Pianoforte Playing, which had been founded in 1873.

[5] In 1890, he became Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music (at the time located at Tenterden Street, Hanover Square) where his best known students were Charles Macpherson and Harry Farjeon.

In 1891, he also took on the post of organist and director of the choir at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, succeeding Henry Frost.

He continued to compose art songs, such as the Nine Elizabethan Lyrics (including No 4, Now is my Chloris which he also adapted as a part-song in 1898).

[12] But his rousing Irish Republican settings and folk song adaptions in ballad style were the most popular during his lifetime, and afterwards.

Off to Philadelphia (1895, arranged for and sung by Harry Plunket Greene)[13] and The Ould Plaid Shawl (1896) both became staples at the Henry Wood Proms in the decade following the composer’s death,[14] and the tenor John McCormack famously revived Off to Philadelphia for a recording as late as 1941.