GATTY, NICHOLAS COMYN ), English composer, was born at Bradfield near Sheffield on Sept. 13, He was educated privately and at Downing College, Cambridge, and afterwards entered the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition under Stanford. In 1907 he became musical critic to the Pall Mall Gazette. For many seasons he acted as musical assistant on the stage at Covent Garden. In 1927 he received the degree of Mus.D. from Cambridge university. He is principally a composer of opera, but has also written: Varia tions on "Old King Cole" for orchestra; a suite for strings; a setting of Milton's ode: "Fly, envious Time" for chorus and orchestra; three Short Odes (Clough and Shelley) ; variations and a sonata in G for violin and piano ; two sets of piano waltzes, and a number of songs. His operas are : Greysteel (unpublished), produced at Sheffield (1906) and Duke or Devil (Manchester, 1909), both in one act; Prince Ferelon, musical extravaganza in I act, produced in 1919 and now established in the repertoire of the "Old Vic." (vocal score published by the Carnegie Trust) ; The Tempest (unpublished), Surrey Theatre, London, 192o; King Alfred and the Cakes, and Macbeth.