George Handford (1582–5 – 1647), was an

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composer. He spent some time in

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, and may have been a pensioner at

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in 1604, or a

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. He married twice, at St.-Dunstan-in-the-West Church, Cambridge. He published ''Ayres to be sung to the lute'', written in 1609, which is 'unique in that it is the only collection of

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songs that is a carefully prepared work by one man...and not simply an anthology of somebody's favourite songs'.

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