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William Henry Kerridge (1881-1940). Musician. .

Kerridge was born in Eastbourne, was an F. R. C. O, B. Mus, Cambs., A. R. C. M.. He was organist at St Andrew's Church, Farnham until 1903. He was assistant music master at Winchester College and pianist for the Beecham Opera Company. During 1914-18 he was organist at the American Embassy Church at Paris. After the war he conducted a number of choral societies, and for a time was head of music at Chelsea Polytechnic. He was a friend of Walford Davies. He was Hon. Secretary of the British Music Society and also Principal of the Education Department of the Gramophone Company. He was much interested in Soviet Russia, and wrote about it for the Musical Times.

He was married in 1924 to Dr Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge (1902-1940), a pioneering medical physiologist, particularly in the development of electrical hearing aids for deaf. They had a son. She was a keen musician.

In 1933 he was involved with a project sponsored by the British Drama League to produce recordings of British dialects. From about 1935 he was a peripatetic examiner for Trinity College of Music, visiting Canada, the United States and South America, New Zealand and Tahiti. He died in New York. The Musical Times Obituarist wrote: ''A very versatile man, his music being part of a singularly wide culture and knowledge. He had a varied and rather unsettled career as organist, pianist, teacher, lecturer and conductor, and He was an accomplished linguist and a great traveller, happiest when he could be musically occupied in far away places – such as Tahiti where he gave a broadcast.

Works
“The Union of Soviet Composers”, The Musical Times, Vol. 75, No. 1102 (Dec., 1934), pp. 1073-1075

“Soviet Music in London”, The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1108 (Jun., 1935), pp. 545-546

“Musicians in Soviet Russia”, The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1110 (Aug., 1935), pp. 696-698

“Conditions in Russia, The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1113 (Nov., 1935), p. 1020

Letter 1: "Religion and Morals in Soviet Russia", The Scotsman - Saturday 15 February 1936

Letter 2: "Religion and Morals in Soviet Russia", The Scotsman - Friday 28 February 1936

Letter 3: "Religion and Morals in Soviet Russia", The Scotsman - Wednesday 11 March 1936

He was translator of:

Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938, Terrorism and communism : a contribution to the natural history of revolution.[1920] London : G. Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Wellesz, Egon, 1885-1974, Arnold Schönberg, 1925, London : Dent