Buddy Featherstonhaugh

Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh (/ˈfænʃɔː/ FAN-shaw; 4 October 1909 – 12 July 1976) was an English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

He was with Spike Hughes from 1930 to 1932, and toured England in Billy Mason's band behind Louis Armstrong that same year and in 1933 he recorded with a group called The Cosmopolitans, which included Fletcher Allen.

During World War II, he led a Royal Air Force band which had among its members Vic Lewis, Don McAffer, and Jack Parnell.

After the war he toured Iceland in 1946, and then left the jazz scene, taking up work as a car salesman.

In 1956 he returned to play (and recorded) in a quintet with trumpeter Leon Calvert, Roy Sidewell, Kenny Wheeler, and Bobby Wellins.