Gurney’s People:­ A Checklist

­Family Florence and David Gurney—­parents Ronald, Dorothy and Winifred Gurney—­siblings Ethel Gurney—­Ronald’s wife, Ivor’s sister-­in-­law Marie Gurney—­Ivor’s aunt (with whom he lived at her ­house in Longford, Gloucester)

Gloucestershire Friends Herbert Howells (composer, and companion from Gloucester Cathedral days to the Royal College of ­Music) Frederick William Harvey (Gurney’s greatest friend; poet and soldier in the 1/5th Gloucesters) Matilda Harvey (­Will Harvey’s ­mother, with whom Gurney stayed at The Red- lands, in Minsterworth) Eric Harvey (­Will Harvey’s younger brother,­ who was a chorister with Gurney, and was killed in France) J. W. (Jack) Haines (solicitor and poet, friend of Edward Thomas, Gurney’s walking companion) W. P. (William Pat) Kerr (tax inspector, critic and poet who obtained a brief post for Gurney in the tax office) Margaret and Emily Hunt (­sisters who played the violin and piano and were­ supportive friends) Canon Alfred Cheesman (Gurney’s godfather, who introduced him to lit­er­a­ture) James Harris (a lockkeeper, with whom Gurney convalesced by the river at Framilode)

London Friends Marion Scott (Gurney’s literary and musical executor, and lifelong friend) Ethel Voynich (novelist and a friend of Scott’s with whom Gurney holidayed in 1918) Sydney Shimmin (organist, con­temporary of Gurney at the Royal College of ­Music) xii • Gurney’s People

Arthur Benjamin (pianist and composer, con­temporary of Gurney) Arthur Bliss (composer, wounded on the Somme, also studied at the RCM with Gurney) Francis Purcell Warren (RCM student, violinist, violist and composer, killed in France) Eugene Goossens (con­temporary composition student at the RCM)

High Wycombe Friends The Chapman ­family: Matilda and Edward—parents;­ Kitty (Catherine), Winnie (Winifred), Arthur and Micky (Marjorie)—­siblings (Gurney proposed marriage to Kitty)

Literary Friends Harold Monro (poet and owner of the famous Poetry Bookshop in Charing Cross) W. W. Gibson Lascelles Abercrombie and his wife Catherine John Masefield Walter de la Mare Helen Thomas (writer, and wife of poet Edward Thomas, who was killed in France) Hilaire Belloc J. C. Squire (poet and editor of the London Mercury) C. K. Scott Moncrieff (friend of Wilfred Owen, critic, and secretary to Lord Northcliffe atThe Times) Edward (Eddie) Marsh (private secretary to Winston Churchill, editor of the hugely successful Georgian Poetry series)

Teachers Sir Herbert Brewer (Director of ­Music and Master of the Choristers at Gloucester Cathedral) Sir Hubert Parry (Founder-­President of the Royal College of ­Music) Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (Cofounder of RCM and Gurney’s prewar teacher) Ralph Vaughan Williams (Gurney’s teacher on his postwar return to the RCM and supporter thereafter)

Medical Staff VAD nurse Annie Nelson Drummond (to whom Gurney was briefly and unoffi- cially engaged) Dr Terry (Gurney’s GP in Gloucester, who certified him) Gurney’s People • xiii

Dr Soutar (the second GP who certified him, and treated him in Barnwood House asylum) Dr Townsend (Superintendent of Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester) Dr Steen (Superintendent of Stone House Hospital, Dartford) Dr W. L. Templeton (responsible for Gurney’s experimental malaria treatments at Dartford) Dr E. W. Anderson (Ju­nior Medical Assistant at Dartford, ­later an eminent psychiatrist) Dr Randolph Davis (Ju­nior Medical Assistant at Dartford) Dr Robinson (Superintendent of Stone House Hospital ­after Dr Steen’s retirement)