June 5, 1863, Wind­er­mere, Eng­land.

May 2, 1937, St. Mar­y­le­bone, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Somervell at­tend­ed King’s Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1883); the Roy­al Col­lege of Mu­sic (RCM), where he stu­died un­der Charles Stan­ford; and at the Be­rlin Hoch­schule un­der Fried­rich Kiel and Wol­de­mar Bar­giel. He taught at the RCM (1894), and be­came an in­spect­or of mu­sic in schools in 1901. He earned a Doctor of Mu­sic de­gree from Cam­bridge in 1903, & was knight­ed in 1929. Af­ter re­tir­ing in 1928, he be­came as­so­ci­at­ed with the Roy­al School of Church Mu­sic.

• Frost, p. 691

1. Dominus Vo­bis­cum
2. Kendal
3. Langdale
4. Somervell
5. Windermere