Daniel Eyers Godfrey

[6]) He founded the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in 1893 and remained its leading conductor for 41 years, until 1934.

Although he was contracted by the Bournemouth Corporation to conduct a seasonal band of 30 musicians, his ambition was to build a permanent symphony orchestra in the town.

Godfrey gave the first performance of the reconstruction of Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony on 11 February 1915, and made acoustic recordings of excerpts of the work in 1923 and an abridged version in 1925.

[7] Godfrey and the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra made several gramophone records for HMV from 1914 to 1930.

He was knighted in 1922 'for valuable services to British music' largely as a result of a vigorous campaign on his behalf from Ethel Smyth.