Percy Huntley Trevor (born Percy William Favatt; 8 April 1881 – 17 April 1943) was an English songwriter. Generally known as Huntley Trevor, he sometimes published music under the pseudonyms Raymond Wallace, Chester Wallace, and Slade Williams.30501 Trevor (orig. Favatt), ''World Composers''
Retrieved 4 January 2021

Career

Born in

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, London, he began writing lyrics, especially for comic and

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s, before the

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, and continued with some success until the 1930s. His most successful songs included "When It’s Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" (written with

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and Tom Mellor, 1913); " Your King and Country Need You" (1914, written with Henry E. Pether); "Give Yourself a Pat on the Back" (1929, written with

Ralph Butler Ralph Thomas Butler (12 October 1886 – 8 April 1969) was a British songwriter, responsible for the lyrics of many popular songs of the 1930s and later, mostly with comic or novelty elements. He was active as a songwriter from the late 1920s unti ...

); " Jolly Good Company" (1931), for which he wrote both words and music; "Old Father Thames" (1933, written with

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, who used the pseudonym "Betsy O'Hogan"); "You Can't Do That There 'Ere" (1935, written with Jack Rolls); and "With My Shillelagh Under My Arm" (1936, written with Billy O'Brien). Songs written or co-written by Huntley Trevor, ''The Database of Popular Music''
Retrieved 4 January 2021 "I'm a Lady Policeman", ''Folk Song and Music Hall''
Retrieved 4 January 2021 Trevor died in London in 1943, aged 62.

References

1881 births 1943 deaths English male songwriters {{songwriter-stub