Walter Braithwaite (composer)

He moved to Worcestershire with his wife Sophy Kathleen Cottrell and became an important member in the founding of both Sunfield Children's Home and later Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School, Stourbridge.

Thus he worked with Fried Geuter, Michael Wilson (incidentally a distant cousin of his), John Kobbe (his brother-in-law) and Eileen Hutchins.

He composed songs for school plays and festivals, taught music and piano, and accompanied eurythmy lessons.

He was an early member of The Christian Community church in Stourbridge, for which he wrote music and played piano.

Two of the songs in the first book, 'Ut queant laxis' and 'The Spring by the Wayside (Bare is the Rock)', are still regularly sung at Elmfield School assemblies.