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He was a composer, teacher and classical scholar born
William Adair Pickard-Cambridge in Dorset, England. His clergyman father Rev. Octavius
Pickard-Cambridge was a Victorian naturalist and world-renowned for his highly
acclaimed work as an arachnologist, his cousin Frederick Octavius was also a
well regarded arachnologist and his brother, Sir Arthur Wallace
Pickard-Cambridge is considered as of the 20th century's
greatest authorities on the subject of Greek theatre. As an author is still recognised
today for his work as a translator of Aristotle and the other works he will
be remembered for are his many published translations of Christmas carols
such as in his book A Collection of Dorset Carols and "Angelus ad
Virginem" which he named "Gabriel to Mary Came". He composed and published many hymns in books and
collections that included Three Carols, Ridley's New Series Classical
Church Music, Six Songs and Lux Crucis: A Series of Devotions with
Special Hymns. He died in
England in 1957 aged 77 leaving behind him many music manuscripts that are
now held in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and others with
family documents are looked after at the Dorset History Centre in
Dorchester. Sadly it is
thought that many other of his manuscripts were destroyed in London during
the blitz in 1940.
Sources:
- http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/Pickard-Cambridge/table_of_contents.htm
- http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/gabriel_to_mary_came-pickard.htm
- http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/sophist_refut.html
- http://the0phrastus.typepad.com/noncontradiction/2007/03/topics_iiv_tran.html
- http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/topics.html
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