Henry Bromley Derry MVO DMus FRCO FLCM (1885 – 4 April 1954) was an organist and professor of Music based in

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Life

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, christened on 9 September 1885, the son of Henry Derry and Elizabeth Edkins. He was educated at

King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon The Grammar School of King Edward VI at Stratford-upon-Avon (commonly referred to as King Edward VI School or shortened to K.E.S.) is a grammar school and academy in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, traditionally for boys only. Howeve ...

. He studied under Sir Walter Parratt, Frederick Bridge, attended the

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from 1906 to 1910. For about one year around 1903 he served in the

Warwickshire Yeomanry The Warwickshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as cavalry and machine gunners in the First World War and as a cavalry and an armoured regiment in the Second World War, before being amalg ...

. He was awarded his FRCO in 1907 and subsequently a D.Mus. He married Gertrude Powell on 27 April 1909. They had a daughter named Aileen Gertrude Joyce Derry on 11 May 1910. From 1915 to 1918 he served as bandmaster in the

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. It served under various titles and fought in many wars and conflicts, including both the First and the Second World Wars, from 1680 to 1959. In 1959, the r ...

. He became Chairman of the Corporation and Director of the London College of Music. He was made a Member of the

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in 1944, and changed his surname from Derry to Bromley-Derry in the same year.

Appointments

*Assistant Organist of the

Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon The Collegiate Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is often known simply as Holy Trinity Church or as Shak ...

1903 - 1908 *Organist of St. Mary's Church, Vauxhall, 1908 *Organist of All Saints' Church, Ealing 1908 - ???? *Organist of the

Savoy Chapel The King's Chapel of St John the Baptist in the Precinct of the Savoy, also known as the King's Chapel of the Savoy, is a church in the City of Westminster, London. Facing it are 111 Strand, the Savoy Hotel, the Institution of Engineering and T ...

, London 1914 - 1954God Save the Queen!: The History and Romance of the World's First National Anthem. Percy Alfred Scholes. Oxford University Press, 1954 *Director of the London College of Music W1 1915

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Derry, Henry Bromley 1885 births 1954 deaths English organists British male organists English composers Members of the Royal Victorian Order Fellows of the Royal College of Organists People educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon 20th-century organists 20th-century British male musicians