Robert Watkin-Mills

Robert Watkin-Mills (March 4, 1849 – December 10, 1930) was an English bass-baritone concert singer of the late Victorian era who in his later career moved to Canada.

[1] Robert Watkin-Mills studied singing with Samuel Sebastian Wesley in Gloucestershire, Edwin Holland in London, and Federico Blasco in Milan.

[4] In November 1900, Henry Wood engaged him for his uncut performance at Nottingham of the first two acts of Tannhäuser (introducing the Paris version of the Venusberg scene for the first time in England), along with Robert Radford and others.

[5] In 1914 Watkin-Mills moved permanently to Winnipeg in Canada where he became choirmaster of the Broadway Methodist Church and helped set-up the Men's Music Club, of which he was President from 1917 to 1919.

[3] Watkin-Mills made his final appearance on the concert platform aged 77 in Handel's Messiah at St Paul's Church in Toronto.