Frederick Kill Harford (1832 - 11 November 1906) was an English clergyman, musician, poet, hymn writer and pioneer of music therapy.
He founded the Guild of St Cecilia in 1891, [1] where members would perform live music to patients in hospitals.
[3] He was ordained as a deacon by the Archbishop of Canterbury and later served as a priest and Chaplain to the Bishop of Gibraltar (1858-1861).
Harford experimented on music and its healing properties particularly on the mentally ill and wrote about its possible role in reducing pain from physical ailments such as gout.
His work on music as therapy received acclaim from Florence Nightingale and Sir Richard Quain.