CROTCH, WILLIAM English musician, born at Norwich, supplies an instance of a musical prodigy who hardly fulfilled the promise of his youth. When scarcely more than two years of age he played upon an organ something like the tune of "God save the King," while at the age of four he came to London and gave daily recitals in the rooms of a milliner in Piccadilly. The precocity of his musical intuition was moreover almost equalled by a similarly early aptitude for drawing. In the result, however, these astonishing early powers came to nothing in any way exceptional. He developed into a sound and worthy musician who filled various important positions with credit, but nothing more.