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English musician and educator
Peter Stanley Lyons
Born 6 December 1927
Died 28 November 2006(2006-11-28) (aged 78 )
Nationality English Education
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge (BA, 1950: MA, 1955)Occupation(s ) Choral conductor; Headmaster Known for
Spouse Bridget Webb-Jones (m. 1957, Wells Cathedral ) Relatives James W. Webb-Jones (father-in-law)
Peter Stanley Lyons (6 December 1927 – 28 November 2006) was a choral conductor and a headmaster of Witham Hall School .
Early life [ edit ]
Peter Stanley Lyons was born in Atherfold Road, London, SW9 ,[1] to Harold Lyons, who was the sommelier at London's Savoy Hotel and Dorchester Hotel . Peter was educated at Alleyn's School ,[2] [3] and at Rossall School ,[1] [2] where he was Captain of Soccer,[4] and at St John’s College, Cambridge .[1] [2] [3] He won a choral scholarship to St John's in 1946,[2] but completed National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals ,[2] with whom he boxed for the British Army ,[1] and in the Royal Regiment of Artillery ,[5] before he in 1948 entered Cambridge University[2] [3] where he read Modern Languages without honours (BA 1950, MA 1955)[2] and was tutored by C. W. Guillebaud .[2] [3] Lyons was awarded St. John's College Cambridge Colours for Soccer during the 1949 - 1950 season, and was a member of the team that won the Inter-Collegiate Cup for Soccer.[2]
Lyons was a member of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge under Robin Orr .[1] [3] He sung counter-tenor until his twenties and was described as a ‘forerunner of [Maria] Callas ' whilst he was at Rossall School.[4] His performances included the part of Euridice in Gluck 's Orfeo ed Euridice ,[6] and the soprano part in Verdi 's Requiem .[4] Lyons was broadcast on the BBC on 8 February 1944.[6] Lyons enjoyed the compositions of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan .[1] Peter at Alleyn’s School formed a lifetime friendship with John Lanchbery , who would become Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 to 1972, and with Kenneth Spring , who would become co-founder of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain .[1] [6]
Lyons was a cricketer for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC),[1] for which he played during the 1960s;[7] and for the Jesters Cricket Club;[8] and for the Dulwich Public Schools Association.[7]
Music career [ edit ]
Lyons was:[2] [3]
Chorister of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge (1948 – 1950).
Director of Music, Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1950 – 1954)
Director of Music, Vanbrugh Castle School (1950 – 1954)[9]
Director of Music and Deputy Headmaster, Wells Cathedral School , and Master of the Choristers, Wells Cathedral , (1954 – 1960)
Headmaster, Witham Hall School (1961 - 1989)
Witham Hall [ edit ]
Lyons was appointed Headmaster of Witham Hall School in 1961, which was two years after that School's foundation.[10] Witham Hall School's number of pupils increased from 20 at the time at which Lyons started, in 1961, to 150 by the time that he retired, in 1989,[1] when that School was a feeder school for Oundle School , and for Uppingham School , and for Oakham School .[10] [11] Witham Hall School was during Lyons's tenure inspected by the Ministry of Education and granted the status of a trust, in 1978; and began to admit girls, from 1983.[10] Witham Hall School has a school house, Lyons, that is named after Peter Lyons,[12] and had a sports-hall that was named the 'Lyons Hall' that was demolished in 2016.[13]
Marriage [ edit ]
On 31 July 1957, at Wells Cathedral , Lyons married Bridget Webb-Jones,[1] [2] [3] who was the daughter of the choral conductor James W. Webb-Jones [14] [15] [16] and of Barbara Moody (who was the daughter of Colonel Richard S. Hawks Moody CB ).[14] Bridget Webb-Jones's godmother was Lady Walford Davies,[10] who was the wife of composer Sir Henry Walford Davies , who had composed his choral work God Be in My Head at Witham Hall, and who was subsequently the wife of Julian Harold Legge Lambart, Vice-Provost of Eton College (from 1959 to 1967)[17] for which Witham Hall is a preparatory school.[10] [11] Peter and Bridget had three children and four grandchildren.[2]
Later life [ edit ]
Lyons was a member of the Young Musicians Support Group of the Dartington Hall Trust[1] of which Imogen Holst (who was the only child of the composer Gustav Holst ) was a member.[18] Lyons died on 28 December 2006.[2]
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Obituary of Peter Stanley Lyons, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, Friday, 20 April 2007.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Lyons, Peter S., The Eagle , St John's College, Cambridge, 2007, pp.258-259
^ a b c d e f g "Entry for Lyons, Peter S. (1948)". Register of Twentieth Century Johnians, Volume I: 1900-1949 . St John's College, Cambridge. 2004. p. 279.
^ a b c French, Jim. "Rossall Reminiscences ". Alleyn's School, Dulwich.
^ "No. 38220" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 February 1948. p. 1482.
^ a b c Schofield, Susannah. "Alleyn's in the 1940s ". Alleyn's School, Dulwich.
^ a b "Peter Stanley Lyons, Profile, Cricket Archive" .
^ "James William Webb-Jones, Profile at Cricket Archive" .
^ "Peter Lyons, Residential Staff, Vanbrugh Castle School" .
^ a b c d e Peter S. Lyons and Witham Hall, Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury , Friday, February 8, 1985
^ a b Tatler, Guides, Schools Guide 2014, Prep, Witham Hall School
^ "Houses, Witham Hall" .
^ "Lincolnshire Life , Educational Supplement". Lincoln: County Life. May 2017. p. 170.
^ a b "WEBB-JONES, James William (1904–1965)". Who's Who, Oxford Index . Oxford University Press .
^ "Entry for James William Webb-Jones , Headmasters of Vanbrugh Castle School, Vanbrugh Castle School" .
^ "Profile for James William Webb-Jones , Vanbrugh Castle School" .
^ Charles Mosley (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 107th edition, 3 Vols . Vol. 1. p. 722.
^ Grogan, Christopher; Strode, Rosamund (2010). "Part II: 1931–52". In Christopher Grogan; Rosamund Strode (eds.). Imogen Holst: A Life in Music (revised ed.). Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-599-8 .
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Stanley_Lyons&oldid=1217480345 "
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