Reginald Thatcher

Sir Reginald Sparshatt Thatcher (11 March 1888 – 6 May 1957) was an English musician, composer, teacher and musical administrator.

Thatcher was appointed director of music at the Royal Naval College, Osborne in 1914,[3] but during the First World War he joined the army, and was awarded the Military Cross and the OBE.

[7] Thatcher's nature was unassertive and sensitive,[6] and although, with Boult's support, he was several times offered the post of director, he always refused.

[8] During the Second World War, when the BBC had to be evacuated from London, Thatcher organised three successive moves for the music department, first to Evesham, then Bristol and finally to Bedford.

[1]The obituarist added that Thatcher's term of office at the academy was "marked by the urbanity towards staff, students, and strangers that he had inherited from Merchant".