Born: June 5, 1863, Windermere, England.

Died: May 2, 1937, St. Marylebone, London, England.

Somervell attended King's College, Cambridge (BA 1883); the Royal College of Music (RCM), where he studied under Charles Stanford; and at the Berlin Hochschule un­der Fried­rich Kiel and Wol­de­mar Bar­giel. He taught at the RCM (1894), and be­came an in­spect­or of mu­sic in schools in 1901. He earned a Doctor of Music degree from Cambridge in 1903, and was knighted in 1929. After retiring in 1928, he became associated with the Royal School of Church Music.

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