Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875) with his many orchestral and choral works of which his cantata, _The Woman of Samaria_, is best known; Sir George A. Macfarren (1813–1887) with operas and oratorios, especially his cantata, _Rebekah_; his brother, Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826–1905), conductor, and composer of orchestral music; Sir John Stainer (1840–1901), organist, composer of very lovely anthems, and much church music, and Professor of Music at Oxford; Sir Frederick Bridge (1844–1924), organist of Westminster Abbey, writer of text-books on music, and of anthems, part songs and oratorios; Sir Arthur C. Mackenzie (1847), composer of many works including two Scotch symphonies and a cantata, _The Cottar’s Saturday Night_; Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918), Professor of Music at Oxford after Stainer, and writer of many important books on music and of compositions in many forms; Arthur Goring Thomas (1851–1892), who wrote operas, cantatas, and many songs; Sir Frederick Hymen Cowen (1852), with operas, cantatas, symphonies and chamber music; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1853–1924), born in Dublin, Ireland, Professor of Music at Cambridge since 1887, student of Irish folk music, and writer of chamber music and short pieces, also of valuable books on musical history and other musical subjects; Edward German (1862), famous for his _Henry VIII_ Dances, much incidental theatre music, and an operetta, _The Moon Fairies_, in which he used the last libretto written by Sullivan’s inimitable partner, Sir W. S. Gilbert; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), an Englishman of African descent, whose music for chorus and for orchestra is based on American Indian legend, and on Negro folk songs. And living today is Edward William Elgar (1857), the dean of English composers. While not adding to the new music, he is famous for many pieces, among which are _The Dream of Gerontius_, _The Apostles_, other oratorios, symphonies, and his march, _Pomp and Circumstance_. WOMEN WRITERS IN ENGLAND Among the women in England, Dame Ethel Smyth (_Dame_ is an honorary title in England) (1858) is known for her opera _The Wreckers_, and her comic opera _The Boatswain’s Mate_. Some of her operas have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and at Covent Garden, London. Besides she has written songs for the Suffrage Movement, incidental music, and music in large forms. Liza Lehman (1862–1918), wrote _In a Persian Garden_, _Nonsense Songs_, and _The Daisy Chain_, which made her famous. “Poldowski,” Lady Dean Paul, daughter of Wieniawski, the Polish composer and violinist, has written piano pieces and lovely songs in Debussy style. She has had considerable influence in getting the work of the younger British composers and her countryman, Szymanowski, heard in London.