Full captions and credits for photos
Image | No | Year | Caption | Credit |
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![]() | 1 | 1905? | A young Cyril Rootham | © Hyperion Records |
![]() | 2 | 1896 | CBR's father Daniel Wilberforce Rootham: photograph by Villiers & Quick, 42 Park St, Bristol (September 1896) | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 3 | 1904 | Rosamond Lucas in 1904, before she married Cyril Rootham in 1909: she was an active suffragette | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 4 | 1910? | Rosamond's father Edgar Lucas, who became Cyril Rootham's father in law | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 5 | 1916? | Cyril Rootham looking very proprietorial; possibly at the Music Schools at Cambridge University about 1916? | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 6 | 1917 | Cyril Rootham and Enid Paddison in 1917 | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 7 | 1917 | Also in 1917: Cyril Rootham and an unknown person, possibly Enid Paddison's husband or brother? | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 8 | 1922 | A portrait photo of Rosamond Rootham in 1922 | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 9 | 1924? | Cyril and Rosamond Rootham are probably about to take their son Jasper to start at Tonbridge School in 1924: quite an occasion! | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 10 | 1933 | The first of two portrait photos in the National Portrait Gallery collection: NPG x48646 Cyril Bradley Rootham by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) half-plate nitrate negative, 12 December 1933 | © National Portrait Gallery, London |
![]() | 11 | 1933 | The second of two portrait photos in the National Portrait Gallery collection: NPG x48647 Cyril Bradley Rootham by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) half-plate nitrate negative, 12 December 1933 | © National Portrait Gallery, London |
![]() | 12 | 1935 | Cyril Rootham and his son Jasper both featured in this photograph of The Eagles at St John's College in 1935. Click for full-size image | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 13 | 1935? | This is the best-known photo of Cyril Rootham, probably taken by his son Jasper while on holiday together in 1935 | from Rootham family album (also on Wikipedia: Creative Commons licence) |
![]() | 14 | 1925? | The Cambridge music scene about 1925 Left to right: Gordon Bryan, Cyril Rootham, Arthur Bliss, Sir Dan Godfrey, George Dixon, Armstrong Gibbs, Patrick Hadley Click for full-size image | © Cyril Rootham website |
![]() | 15 | 1934? | A meeting of musicians. Left to right: Walford Davies, Sir Hugh Allen and Cyril Rootham in about 1934. Walford Davies was CBR's predecessor as organist at Christ Church, Hampstead. Interestingly Walford Davies and CBR both had a work performed at Prom 35 in the Queen's Hall on 19 September 1918! | from Rootham family album (also on Wikipedia: Creative Commons licence) |
![]() | 16 | 1935 | The choir's annual Ascension Day ceremony on the tower of St John's College Chapel: Cyril Rootham (centre) is looking tense, because he suffered horribly from vertigo | unknown source |
![]() | 17 | 1938-39? | This CBR memorial plaque in the Chapel of St John's College demonstrates that the College was the centre of Cyril Rootham's life. | © Cyril Rootham website |
Photographic rights
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Please help us out with the captions!
Do you recognize any of these people? If you can put a name to any of the [unknown] faces, do please contact Dan Rootham.