William Beatton Moonie

His father James Anderson Moonie (d.1923) was a music teacher living at 33 Oxford Street, a flat in the Newington district of Edinburgh.

[5] There he studied under Frederick Niecks and graduated BMus in 1902 also winning the Bucher Scholarship, which enabled him to do postgraduate studies at the University of Frankfurt under Iwan Knorr, Lazzaro Uzielli and Willi Rehberg (father of Walter Rehberg).

[6] On his return to Britain in 1908 he had further tuition from Donald Tovey and through him befriended Erik Chisholm.

He went back to living with his family in Edinburgh, who at this point had moved to a much larger property at 44 Morningside Park.

[7] In 1910 he took a post teaching at Moray House in Edinburgh and in 1915 became music teacher at Daniel Stewart's College, moving to George Heriot's School in 1919.