Haldane Stewart

Haldane Campbell Stewart (28 February 1868 – 14 June 1942) was an English musician, composer and cricketer.

As a boy in 1879, Stewart sang as a chorister in the chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford, under Walter Parratt.

[4][5] He toured the United States with the Kent team under the captaincy of Cuthbert Burnup in 1903, scored 142 at Lord's against MCC in 1897 and made 203 not out for Blackheath against Granville, Lee.

[5] Stewart was appointed to teach at Lancing College, West Sussex in 1891, where he became Director of Music.

Notable among his works are a setting of Psalm 147 ("O Praise to the Lord"), and the carol, On this Day Earth Shall Ring.

He provided assistance to John E. West in compiling the 1921 publication Cathedral organists past and present.

[7][8] He died at Headington, Oxfordshire, on 16 June 1942, at the age of 74,[3] and was succeeded as organist at Magdalen by Philip J. Taylor in 1943.