Sir William Henry Hadow CBE (27 December 1859 – 8 April 1937) was a leading educational reformer in Great Britain and a musicologist.
Hadow was born at Ebrington, Gloucester, England. He studied at Malvern College[1], followed by Worcester College, Oxford where he taught and became Dean (1889)[2]. In 1905, Hadow was elected the first Old Malvernian member of the Council of Malvern College.[3] In 1909, he was appointed principal of Armstrong College in the Newcastle Division of Durham University before succeeding, as Warden & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham in 1916. In 1919, he was appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University (1919–30).
As chairman of several committees, he published a series of reports on education, notably The Education of the Adolescent (1926) which called for the re-organization 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 wrote a number of publications on music and music theory, including the Oxford History of Music which he wrote and edited. He was a composer. He was also a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Music.
He was awarded a Knight Bachelor in 1918[4] and a CBE in 1920.
He died at Westminster, London.
| Academic offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by The Revd Henry Gee |
Warden & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham 1916–1918 |
Succeeded by John Stapylton Grey Pemberton |
| Preceded by William Ripper |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield 1919–1930 |
Succeeded by Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge |