HADOW, SIR WILLIAM HENRY British scholar and musician, was born at Ebrington, Glos., Dec. 27, 18S9. He was educated at Malvern and Worcester College, Oxford, and after taking his degree remained at Oxford as a tutor and fellow of his college. In 1909 he became principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle, retaining this post until 1919, when he became vice chancellor of Sheffield University. He was in 1918 appointed assistant director of education for the troops by the War Office and also worked for the Y.M.C.A. He was knighted in 1918 and was made a C.B.E. in 1920. In 1922 he became Stevenson Lecturer to the University of Glasgow and in 1927 he presided over a committee which investigated the possibilities of adult education by means of broadcasting.
Sir Henry Hadow first took up the study of music at Darm stadt in 1882. When his Studies in Modern Music appeared (vol. i. Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, 1894; vol. ii. Chopin, Dvorak, Brahms, 1895), they were received with enthusiasm as repre senting a layman's wider outlook on, and keen insight into, sub jects usually left to professional writers on music. In A Croatian Composer (1897) he contributed a valuable theory on the Slavonic origin of Haydn's melodic material. He also wrote Sonata Form (1896) ; the volume "The Viennese Period" (19o4) in The Oxford History of Music, of which he was the editor; Citizenship (1923) ; and Music (1924) in the Home University Library. His com positions include songs, piano pieces and incidental music to Robert Bridge's Demeter (19o5).