William Henry Hadow

Sir William Henry Hadow MA, CBE, Hon. D Mus
Vice-Chancellor & Warden of the University of Durham
In office 1916–1918
Preceded by	The Very Rev'd Prof Henry Gee
Succeeded by	John Stapylton Grey Pemberton
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
In office 1919–1930
Preceded by	William Ripper
Succeeded by	Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
Personal details
Born	1859
Died	1937
Spouse(s)	Edith Troutbeck
Alma mater	Worcester College, Oxford
Profession	Academic, Educationalist and Vice-Chancellor

Sir William Henry Hadow CBE (27 December 1859 – 8 April 1937) was a leading educational reformer in Great Britain and a musicologist.

Life

Born at Ebrington in Gloucestershire and baptised there on 29 January 1860 by his father, he was the eldest child of the Reverend William Elliot Hadow (1826-1906) and his wife Mary Lang Cornish (1835-1917).^[1] His grandfather, the Reverend William Thomas Hadow, had married Eleanor Ann Bethune, daughter of Colonel John Drinkwater Bethune.^[2]

He studied at Malvern College,^[3] followed by Worcester College, Oxford, where he taught and became Dean (1889).^[4] In 1905, Hadow was elected the first Old Malvernian member of the Council of Malvern College.^[5] 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^[6] and a CBE in 1920.

In 1930 in London, when he was 70 years old, he married Edith Troutbeck (1863-1937), who died a few weeks before his own death in Westminster, London.

Publications

• Music (1925) Williams and Norgate Ltd, England
• Collected Essays (1928) Oxford University Press
• English Music (1931) Longmans Green & Co, London
• Beethoven's Opus Eighteen Quartets
• William Byrd 1623-1923 (1920) Humphrey Milford, London
• A Comparison of Poetry and Music (1926) Cambridge University Press
• Sonata form

References

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about: William Henry Hadow

• Biography.com entry
• The Hadow Reports: an introduction at InfEd
• Gillard D (2006) The Hadow Reports: an introduction
• Archival material relating to William Henry Hadow listed at the UK National Archives
• Free scores by William Henry Hadow at the International Music Score Library Project
• Works by William Henry Hadow at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Henry Hadow at Internet Archive