Stanley Hawley

[2] According to Eric Coates[3] Grieg, during one of his visits to London in the late 1880s, heard the student Hawley play his Piano Concerto and praised his performance, though the facts and exact date of this often repeated anecdote have since been disputed.

[4] In 1890 he was the first to receive the medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians[5] and in the same year he performed for Queen Victoria at Osborne House (her summer residence) on the Isle of Wight.

[8] Others included Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight (1895), The Raven and The Thin Red Line (1896), Elizabethan Love Lyrics (1903) and Dramatic Poems, published by Novello in 1905.

[14] When Hawley developed a blood clot on the brain he returned to Ilkeston, where he died at his sister's house on Derby Road at the age of 49.

[15] A memorial concert was held at the Wigmore Hall on 25 October 1917 conducted by Henry Wood, where his friend Lena Ashwell, a long-time musical partner from the academy and the Kingsway Theatre, performed some of his recitatives.