December 27, 1859, Ebrington, Gloucester, England.

April 8, 1937, Westminster, London, England.

Hadow stu­died at Mal­vern College, then Wor­ces­ter Col­lege, Ox­ford, where he taught and be­came Dean in 1889. In 1905, he was elect­ed the first Old Mal­vern­i­an mem­ber of the Coun­cil of Mal­vern Col­lege. In 1909, he was ap­point­ed prin­ci­pal of Arm­strong Col­lege in the New­cas­tle Di­vision of Dur­ham Un­i­ver­si­ty before be­coming War­den & Vice Chan­cel­lor of the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Durham in 1916. In 1919, he was ap­point­ed Vice Chan­cel­lor of Shef­field Un­i­ver­si­ty, a post he held until 1930.

As chair­man of sev­er­al com­mit­tees, he pub­lished a ser­ies of re­ports on ed­u­ca­tion, not­a­bly The Ed­u­ca­tion of the Ado­les­cent (1926) which called for the re­or­gan­i­za­tion of el­e­men­ta­ry ed­u­cation, the aban­don­ment of all-age schools, and the cre­a­tion of se­cond­a­ry mo­dern schools. These be­came known as the Ha­dow Re­ports. He was a lead­ing in­fluence in En­glish ed­u­ca­tion at all le­vels in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hadow al­so wrote a num­ber of pub­li­ca­tions on mu­sic and mu­sic the­o­ry, in­clud­ing the Ox­ford His­to­ry of Mu­sic, which he wrote and ed­it­ed. In ad­di­tion, he was a composer and a member of the Coun­cil of the Roy­al Col­lege of Mu­sic.

Hadow was awarded a Knight Ba­che­lor in 1918 and Com­man­der of the Most Ex­cel­lent Or­der of the Bri­tish Em­pire in 1920. His works in­clude:

• Music (Wil­liams and Nor­gate, 1925)
• Collected Es­says (Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1928
• English Mu­sic (Lon­don: Longmans Green & Com­pa­ny, 1931
• William Byrd 1623-1923 (Lon­don: Hum­phrey Mil­ford, 1920)
• A Com­par­i­son of Po­e­try and Mu­sic (Cam­bridge Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1926)

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