Henry Erskine Allon

[1][2][3] He was one of the composers featured in Granville Bantock's concert of new music by himself and his friends, put on at Queen's Hall on 15 December 1896.

[6][7] (Other composers included in this group were William Wallace, Reginald Steggall, Stanley Hawley and Arthur Hinton).

Allon was responsible for about thirty compositions, including six cantatas (among them, "Annie of Lochroyan" and "The Child of Elle"), and a number of solos and sonatas.

[1][5] Musicologist Clyde Binfield has noted that while "there was nothing Celtic in his ancestry", his compositions often bore Scottish-inspired names, such as "The Maid of Colonsay" and "May Margaret".

[4] Despite his father's strong Nonconformist zeal, Allon lapsed from that faith and instead became a member of the CUNU, a Congregationalist and interdenominational religious organisation.