Wilfred Brown (tenor)

He left two years later to teach at Bedales School, where he was form master of amongst others Gerald Finzi's two sons[3] before becoming a full-time singer in 1951.

Like fellow Petersfield resident Michael John Hurd, he championed the work of Gerald Finzi, who was a friend.

[4] Brown also gave the first performance of Till Earth Outwears, a posthumous collection of Finzi's settings of poems by Thomas Hardy, in 1957 at Ashmansworth.

[6] In 1963 he recorded what is often cited as the definitive performance of Dies Natalis with the English Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of the composer's son, Christopher Finzi.

[7] He was also a great friend of the guitarist John Williams and together they recorded an album of music by Benjamin Britten, Stephen Dodgson and John Dowland (released in 1969 on Columbia Odyssey),[8] and a collection of English folk songs.