Ferguson, William Harold

Composer

b Leeds 1874, d Littlehampton, Sussex 1950. Magdalen Coll School, Magdalen Coll chorister, and Keble Coll Oxford; 4 yrs teaching at St Edward’s Sch Oxford and Bilton Grange, Rugby, then at Cuddesdon Theol Coll, ordained (CofE) 1902. Chaplain and music director, Lancing College, Sussex (1902–13); other school posts at Oxford and Radley until 1937, Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral; retired to Littlehampton 1947. Co-editor with Geoffrey Shaw of The Public School Hymn Book 1919. Nos.19A, 90=574=865, 176.