User:David Underdown

Currently living and working in south-west London, I'm originally from north-west England (with a Welsh father).

I've a strong interest in classical music, singing tenor in several choirs, and formerly playing the trombone. I started singing as a choir boy in Anglican church choirs, whilst not really being a practicing Anglican these days, I have strong family ties to the Church of England (and indeed the Church in Wales). One of the choirs I sing with serves primarily as a "Visiting choir", filling in for English Cathedral choirs when they are on holiday, and occasionally touring European cathedrals (and other large churches). As a result of this I've been editing various articles related to this topic, and I'm currently trying to straighten out the Morning Prayer article here.

Whilst a maths student at Imperial College, I started going to The Proms as a prommer in 1997, and that was the first article I edited in Wikipedia (as one of many people at IP 81.19.57.130 since I hadn't created an account then).

I've also been involved in field hockey, playing during my teens and early twenties and subsequently umpiring in Surrey. Other than than that I'm a change ringer and will read just about any book I can lay my hands on. Combining an interest in ringing and military history, I've been researching the men named on a First World War roll of honour, http://halfmuffled.wordpress.com

I also spent some years living in Peterborough, which explains the occasional edits I've made to articles about there.

Other than those areas of interest, I like browsing around using Random article, and occasionally make the odd copy-edit or comment on a talk-page if I spot something particularly glaring.

I am, so far as I know, unrelated to David Underdown.

To do
Create Robert King (conductor) - move Robert King to Robert King (athlete) to create disambig page - this would give us 4 'Robert King's, no-one of which seems to have an outstanding claim to priority.

Sort out Andrew Carwood

Create David Stogdon article, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/feb/26/2 - maybe also Ian Harvey (airline pilot), see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1467912/Captain-Ian-Harvey.html

Go through this list and convert links to the London Gazette (or Edinburgh or Belfast) to LondonGazette, particularly for articles which use the old (now broken) url format. Also convert these

Re-write The Proms, probably create new articles on History of the Proms, Last Night of the Proms (currently a redirect) and possibly other. Sandbox and reference collection here User:David Underdown/Proms

Finish David Campbell (British Army officer), see, one of the last British Army casualties of the lance.

Continue work on Norman Douglas Holbrook.

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