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THE LAST BOY OF THE FAMILY

INGLIS GUNDRY

CONTENTS

Chapter 1	Family Ramifications
Chapter 2	Childhood Days
Chapter 3	Prep School and Gilbert and Sullivan
Chapter 4	Mill Hill
Chapter 5	Oxford
Chapter 6	Great Chesterford and the Law
Chapter 7	Death of my mother and father
Chapter 8	Back to Mill Hill
Chapter 9	*Vaughan Williams and my first opera Naaman, The Leprosy Of War.*
Chapter 10	Douglas Lilburn and my second opera, The Return Of Odysseus
Chapter 11	H.M.S. Welshman, Schoolie and the Admiralty
Chapter 12	*Geoffrey Corbett and my third opera - The Partisans.*
Chapter 13	My fourth opera Avon, or The Household Musician
Chapter 14	*Antony Benskin and my school opera, The Horses of the Dawn, my fifth opera*
Chapter 15	The London-Cornish, Harry Powell Lloyd and my sixth opera, The Tinners of Cornwall
Chapter 16	Various Forms of Love
Chapter 17	Dofferty and my seventh opera, The Logan Rock
Chapter 18	The Discovery of Mediaeval Opera and the Formation of the Sacred Music Drama Society
Chapter 19	Helen Herklots, Pamela Lewis, Lawrence Richard and my eighth opera, The Three Wise Men
Chapter 20	*Peter Kennedy and my Canow Kernow, Songs and Dances from Cornwall* and my work on Cornish Carols**
Chapter 21	Vaughan Williams and my ninth opera The Prince of Coxcombs
Chapter 22	Rutland and Kathleen Boughton, William and George Lloyd
Chapter 23	William Lewarne Harris and my tenth opera The Prisoner Paul
Chapter 24	Brian Davis and the Harp
Chapter 25	Peggy and my one oratorio - The Daytime of Christ
Chapter 26	Trylewyth, Sennen Cove
Chapter 27	William Lewarne Harris and my eleventh opera A Will of Her Own
Chapter 28	Virginia and my twelfth opera The Rubicon
Chapter 29	My younger daughter Penny and my thirteenth opera Lindisfarne
Chapter 30	My elder daughter Suzie and my 14^th opera Claudia’s Dream
Chapter 31	My Life as a Lecturer
Chapter 32	My Lovely Darling and my fifteenth opera - my masterpiece - Galileo
Chapter 33	My 90^th Birthday Concert at St John’s Smith Square, 7^th May 1995
Chapter 34	Project for Another Concert to Celebrate my 95th or 100th Year
Chapter 35	Epilogue for The Welshman
List of Compositions
Article by Peter Crossley-Holland
List of Writings

DEDICATION

ROB BARNETT

The Good friend whom as yet
I have not met
Nor shall I while
He lingers on his sceptred isle,
Where the corncrake can still be heard,
And rare wild flowers have appeared.
As denizen of the outer islands, he
Stands watch over the Minch and over the wild
gleaming, stormy Atlantic sea.

…………………

I feel that poetry is not enough to express what I owe to Rob Barnett in the production of this work. His word-processed drafts were the only print that I could read with my defective sight. He helped me get the book together for several years unrewarded; especially with the photographs which have contributed so much to the interest of this book. I feel I cannot say enough to thank him for all he has done.

I must also thank my dear wife, Peggy, for all she has done to help pull the book together. She has spent a considerable amount of time getting the photographs together. She has made many suggestions for improving the text and has helped me considerably with her criticism. She has made me feel that I owe a great debt to her for the help she has given me. I.G.

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