Bertram Luard-Selby

Bertram Luard-Selby (12 February 1853 – 26 December 1918) was an English composer and cathedral organist. As an organist, he served in Salisbury Cathedral and Rochester Cathedral. As a composer, he wrote prolifically for the church, the concert-hall and the theatre. Family Luard-Selby was born at Ightham Mote, Kent, to Robert Luard-Selby (1800−1880) and his second wife Lewis Marianne Selby. His father was the brother of Lt.-Col. John Luard and the uncle of the antiquarian Henry Richards Luard and Lt.-Gen. Richard George Amherst Luard. His half-brother Charles was married to Caroline Mary Luard, the victim of an unsolved murder. Life and works Luard-Selby studied the organ at the Leipzig Conservatoire under Carl Reinecke and was appointed organist at, successively, St. Barnabas, Marylebone, and Highgate School (1876); Salisbury Cathedral (1881); St John’s Church, Torquay, 1884; and St. Barnabas, Pimlico, 1887. He was appointed organist of Rochester Cathedral on the death of the incumbent, John Hopkins, in 1900, He was the musical editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, published in 1904. He also gave chamber music concerts in London in the 1880s. At the Three Choirs Festival of 1877, Lu