Herbert Bedford

[7] Some, including Yeats settings by Bedford, were performed during the Goossens Chamber Concert series at the Aeolian Hall in 1923 by contralto Esther Coleman.

Bedford's interest in unaccompanied song was less akin to German expressionist Sprechstimme techniques (as some have suggested[1]) and closer in spirit to monodic folksong and oriental melody.

This organisation was accused at the time of furthering Nazi Party cultural ambitions, set up in opposition to the non-political International Society for Contemporary Music.

He mainly produced miniatures and small portraits, such as those collected in his book The Heroines of George Meredith (1914)[11] and the coloured frontispiece and illustrations for his wife Liza Lehmann's posthumous memoirs, published in 1919.

[14] During the First World War, Herbert Bedford held a commission with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, where he was concerned with London's anti-aircraft defences.

[15] The younger, Leslie Herbert Bedford (1900–1989) carried on his father's tradition of inventing and played a key role in the development of radar.