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Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850 – 26 February 1911) was a British colonel in the Royal Artillery, the Commandant of the
Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850 – 26 February 1911) was a British colonel in the Royal Artillery, the Commandant of the Royal Military School of Music
The Royal Military School of Music (RMSM) trains musicians for the British Army's fourteen regular bands, as part of the Royal Corps of Army Music. Until August 2021, the school was based at Kneller Hall in Twickenham, however it moved to HMS ...
, and an opera singer in London.
Early life
He was born Portsea Island, Q1, 1850, the son of General William Francis Foote and Dinah Jane (Nina) Foote (born Nicholls).https://www.myheritage.com/names/francis_barrington%20footeMilitary career
After education at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, Barrington Foote entered the Royal Artillery in 1869 and was promoted to captain in 1879, to major in 1885, to lieutenant-colonel in 1892, and to colonel in 1899. He served in Afghanistan and received a campaign medal in 1880. He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General at Alexandria in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882 and received despatches medal, 4th class Medjidie, Khedive's star. He was Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hobart, Governor of Madras, to the Marquess of Ripon, Governor-General of India, and to the Inspector-General, Royal Artillery. Barring Foote was the President of the Royal Artillery Band Committee and was from 1900 to 1905 the Commandant of the Royal Military School of Music; his successor as Commandant was Sir Alfred Granville Balfour. Foote's predecessor as Commandant was Colonel Farquhar Glennie (1843–1922).Singing career
Francis O. Barrington Foote was a famous baritone singer and frequently sang with Adelina Patti at the Royal Opera House inCovent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist si ...
. He sang the role of ''Hal o' the Chepe'' in Charles Stanford's 1883 opera ''The Canterbury Pilgrims'' and the role of Lucifer in Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera, operatic Gilbert and Sullivan, collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinaf ...
's cantata
A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
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''The Golden Legend''.
Family
In Q1, 1884 Barrington Foote was married in St. George's, Hanover Square to Agnes Mary Glyn, born St. George's, Hanover Square in Q1, 1863, daughter of Hon. Pascoe Charles Glyn and Horatia Louisa St. John-Mildmay. She died aged 91 in Worthing on 21 September 1954. They had three sons and a daughter. *Alan Wortley Barrington Foote, b.1885; d. unmarried, Chertsey, Q2 1923 *Sibell Mary Baker (born Barrington Foote, Q1 1884 in Portsea) m. Clare V. Baker, Q1 1912, St. George's Hanover Square, d. Cirencester, Q4 1950 aged 64 - no children. *Frederick Stanley (b. Portsea, Q4 1886) *William Richard (b. Portsea, Q3 1888)Death
It appears that Barrington Foote fell into "reduced circumstances" before his death on 26 February 1911.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Foote, Francis Onslow Barrington 1850 births 1911 deaths English operatic baritones British military musicians Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Royal Artillery officers British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War 19th-century British male opera singers