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Dr William Lovelock

William LovelockAge: 87 years18991986

Name
William Lovelock
Given names
William
Surname
Lovelock
Name prefix
Dr
Birth 13 March 1899
Christening 14 May 1899 (Age 2 months)
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Newington, St Mary Baptisms Newington St Mary, Surrey 1899 May 14 William son of Tom and Minnie Lovelock of 5 Harmsworth St, Joiner (born 14 Mar 1899)

Census 1901 (Age 21 months)

Note: 6 Brampton Rd, St Peter, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Census 1911 (Age 11 years)

Note: 21 Wakehurst Rd, Wandsworth Common, London, England
Death of a paternal grandfatherThomas Lovelock
7 February 1913 (Age 13 years)
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Deaths Mar 1913 Lovelock Thomas, aged 78, H.Hempstead, 3a, 1050

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LOVELOCK Thomas of Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire died 7 February 1913 Probate London 26 February to Frank Lovelock solicitor's clerk and Charles Prior Lovelock commercial clerk. Resworn 847 pounds 2s 8d

Death of a paternal grandmotherLydia Ann Saltmarsh
19 February 1915 (Age 15 years)
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Deaths Jan-Mar 1915 Lovelock Lydia A, aged 82, H.Hempstead, 3a, 1313

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LOVELOCK Lydia Ann of 30 Herbert Street, Hemel Hempstead, widow died 19th February 1915. Probate to Charles Prior Lovelock on 23rd March. He was clerk to Carshalton urban district council. Effects £662 10s 9d

Burial of a paternal grandmotherLydia Ann Saltmarsh
24 February 1915 (Age 15 years)
MarriageWinifred Irene LittlejohnView this family
19 July 1926 (Age 27 years)
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Name: William Lovelock Spouse Surname: Littlejohn Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1926 Registration district: Wandsworth Inferred County: Surrey Volume Number: 1d Page Number: 1114

Publication: http://adb.anu.edu.au/
Birth of a son
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Gregory Peter Bernard Seaby Lovelock
23 February 1931 (Age 31 years)
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Births Jan-Mar 1931 Lovelock Gregory P B S [Mother] Littlejohn, Croydon, 2a, 531

Shared note: Date of birth included in death registration entry.
Death of a fatherThomas Lovelock
between October 1954 and December 1954 (Age 55 years)
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Name: Tom Lovelock Birth Date: abt 1870 Date of Registration: Dec 1954 Age at Death: 84 Registration district: Chelsea Inferred County: London Volume: 5c Page: 316

Death of a motherMinnie Seaby
between July 1957 and September 1957 (Age 58 years)
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Deaths Jul-Sep 1957 LOVELOCK Minnie, aged 94, Wandsworth, 5d, 593

Death of a wifeWinifred Irene Littlejohn
December 1981 (Age 82 years)
Publication: http://adb.anu.edu.au/
Death 26 June 1986 (Age 87 years)
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Name: William Lovelock Birth Date: 13 Mar 1899 Date of Registration: Jun 1986 Age at Death: 87 Registration district: South Warwickshire Inferred County: Warwickshire Volume: 31 Page: 350

Family with parents - View this family
father
Thomas Lovelock
Birth: about 1870Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
Death: between October 1954 and December 1954Registration District, Chelsea, London, England
mother
Minnie Seaby
Birth: about 1864Bedfont, Middlesex, England
Death: between July 1957 and September 1957Registration District, Wandsworth, London, England
Marriage: 8 September 1897St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England
18 months
himself
Family with Winifred Irene Littlejohn - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: 19 July 1926Church of the Ascension, Battersea, London, England
5 years
son

Birth1901 England Census
BirthParish Register
ChristeningParish Register
Text:

Newington, St Mary Baptisms Newington St Mary, Surrey 1899 May 14 William son of Tom and Minnie Lovelock of 5 Harmsworth St, Joiner (born 14 Mar 1899)

MarriageEngland and Wales - Civil Registration Index
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Name: William Lovelock Spouse Surname: Littlejohn Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1926 Registration district: Wandsworth Inferred County: Surrey Volume Number: 1d Page Number: 1114

MarriageAustralian Dictionary of Biography
Publication: http://adb.anu.edu.au/
DeathEngland and Wales - Civil Registration Index
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Name: William Lovelock Birth Date: 13 Mar 1899 Date of Registration: Jun 1986 Age at Death: 87 Registration district: South Warwickshire Inferred County: Warwickshire Volume: 31 Page: 350

Census

6 Brampton Rd, St Peter, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England RG13 1313 F13 P17

Tom Lovelock;Head;31;Journeyman Carpenters Joiner;Hemel Hempstead, Herts Minnie Lovelock;Wife;37;;Bedfont, Middx William Lovelock;Son;2;;Kensington, London

Census

21 Wakehurst Rd, Wandsworth Common, London, England RG14 PN2237 RG78 PN76 RD26 SD3 ED17 SN14

Tom Lovelock;Head;41;Journeyman Joiner Builders & Decorators;Hemel Hempstead, Herts Minnie Lovelock;Wife, married 13 years;47;;Bedfont, Middx William Lovelock;Son;12;;Kennington, London Henry Monument Grinling;Boarder;41;Clerk to Colonial Meat Importer;Norwich, Norfolk Mary Elizabeth Chapman;Visitor;29;Housemaid;Bow, London

Marriage

Electoral Registers London [Ancestry] 1932 Hillingdon, Uxbridge 45 Warwick Crescent Lovelock William Lovelock Winifred

Shared note

Born: London, 1899 Died: Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, 1986

William Lovelock was educated at Emmanuel School, Wadsworth and Trinity College of Music, London, where he was subsequently a member of the teaching staff (1919-1956).

From 1939 to 1956 he was examiner in music, London University, where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Music (1954-1956). From 1956 to 1959 he was director of the Queensland State Conservatorium of Music. Following this he was active as a composer, adjudicator and examiner, as well as music critic of the Courier Mail in Brisbane. He was also the publisher of numerous textbooks.

Married 1926, Winifred Irene Littlejohn. On the death of his wife in 1981 he returned to England. Son Gregory lives in Warwickshire.

War service:

1914-1918: Royal Artillery 1941-1945: Indian Army Ordnance Corps in the rank of Major

William Lovelock (1899-1986), music teacher, educationist, composer and music critic, was born on 13 March 1899 at Kennington Park, London, only child of Tom Lovelock, joiner, and his wife Minnie, née Seaby. William attended Emanuel School, Battersea, and started learning to play the organ when he was 12. At 16 he won an organ scholarship to Trinity College of Music. His teachers were Charles William Pearce and the composer Henry Geehl, whose enthusiasm for band music and for writing for lighter entertainment, as well as in traditional genres, influenced him deeply. After serving as an artilleryman on the Western Front in World War I, he taught at Trinity from 1919 and played the organ at St Clement Eastcheap (1919-23). He also studied composition at the University of London (B.Mus., 1922; D.Mus., 1932). In 1923-26 he was private organist to the first Viscountess Cowdray (mother of Lady Denman), a well-paid post that involved organising the summer musical entertainment at the Cowdray estate in Scotland.

A fellow of Trinity College and of the Royal College of Organists, in the following years Lovelock worked as a music teacher and examiner for both the college and the University of London and wrote his first music textbook. On 19 July 1926 at the Church of the Ascension, Battersea, he married with Anglican rites Winifred Irene Littlejohn. At the outbreak of World War II he was stranded in India, examining for Trinity, while his wife and son remained in England. Commissioned in the Indian Army in March 1942, he rose to temporary major (1944) in the Ordnance Corps. He wrote a concerto for piano and orchestra while stationed at Benares (Varanasi) in 1945. Back in Britain in 1946, he rejoined the staff of Trinity College. He produced more music textbooks, including A Concise History of Music (1953), and the perennial The Rudiments of Music (1957). In 1954-56 he was dean of the faculty of music, University of London.

In 1956 Lovelock was appointed founding director of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, then located in the old South Brisbane town hall building. He found the Department of Education an unsympathetic employer, unable to grasp that the new institution should be different from a state school, and in 1959 he declined to accept re-appointment. Choosing to stay in Brisbane, he became the chief music critic (1959-81) for the Courier-Mail, an adjudicator at numerous eisteddfods and an examiner for Trinity College. He also became a senior and influential examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Lovelock then intensified his output as a composer. His compositions ranged from teaching pieces for children to full-scale orchestral, choral, brass, and military band works, including concertos for piano, wind instruments, harp, and organ. He kept clear of the avant-garde, fashionable in the 1960s and 1970s, remaining attached to the pre-war, neo-Romantic genre of British composers such as Geehl. His style was invariably melodious and harmonically conservative, for he wrote 'simply to entertain', and his moods focused on the light-hearted, the outgoing, the idyllic, or the energetic .His structures were usually framed by learned forms, such as sonatas, fugues, or concertantes, but he wished 'to write for the performers, rather than against them', and his scores were polished and technically well crafted for their instruments.

Several of his major works, including flute and bass tuba concertos and a trombone concertino, as well as numerous teaching pieces for young people, have survived as part of the permanent musical repertoire in Australia. Some, like the splendid Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (1970), are among the most familiar Australian symphonic music pieces of that period. The Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony orchestras recorded several of his works. An unpublished catalogue lists many more compositions than were known to the public in his lifetime.

Equally prolific as an author, Lovelock produced nearly thirty music textbooks, including Common Sense in Music Teaching (1965), Elementary Accompaniment Writing (1971), General Knowledge for Music Students (1967), and Exercises in Formal Analysis (1973) He wrote numerous enduring works for music examination candidates on orchestral arranging, transposition at the keyboard and harmony. After the death of his wife in December 1981, Lovelock returned to England. Survived by his son, he died on 26 June 1986 at Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. [Australian Dictionary of Biography: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lovelock-william-14385]

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