Frederick Ranalow

[1] He was taken to England when quite young, and by age 10 he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral in London; he later went to Westminster School and studied under Arthur Oswald and Alberto Randegger at the Royal Academy of Music.

[2] (In 1919 Peter Warlock wrote to Frederick Delius of his admiration for Ranalow's Falstaff in a performance under Eugène Goossens, fils.

)[11][12] Ranalow also appeared in The Tales of Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus,[1] La bohème, Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, The Secret of Susanna,[5] Louise,[13] and Götterdämmerung.

[15] On 28 January 1916 he created the role of Ned Travers in Ethel Smyth's opera The Boatswain's Mate.

[22] In 1932, John Gielgud suggested his name to C. B. Cochran for the part of Autolycus in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

[5] Their son Patrick Baring Oates Ranalow, born 21 August 1914, was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.