Talk:Anthony Bernard

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Date of death[edit]

Having searched high and low, in vain, for this information, I finally emailed the London Chamber Orchestra. This is their reply:

Dear Jack,

Many thanks for your email. The orchestra has relatively little archive material on Anthony Bernard but we do have a copy of a book 'Anthony Bernard: A Life in Music' by Ewald Junge (Spellmount Ltd, 1992). This lists his date of death as 6 April 1963, indicating that an obituary appeared in The Times shortly afterwards.

Do let us know if you would like more information on this book.

Best wishes,

Mercedes

Mercedes Malcomson

Administrator

London Chamber Orchestra

Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End Road

London

E1 4NS

Please note new address

I have not been able to locate the Times obituary, but I have confirmed the Ewald Junge book does exist.

This information may be third-hand, but I'm afraid it's the best we've got until something better comes along. I've added the Junge source to the article, with the date of death. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 20:36, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tone[edit]

Much of this section seems rather colloquial in tone, thus not really encyclopaedic: "Anthony Bernard's birth was registered as Alan Charles Butler in the West Ham district, then classified as Essex, in early 1891. His mother was Rosetta Ann Casselden who had married Alfred Charles Butler, a coal-merchant (son of Henry Butler, also a coal-merchant) four years previously on 21 September 1887. Alan Charles Butler changed his name by deed poll in 1919 according to the National Archives. Further family research has uncovered the fact he was an illegitimate child of the Edwardian band leader Thomas Bidgood and Rosetta Casselden. Another of Thomas Bidgood's sons was the dance band leader Harry Bidgood (Also known as Primo Scala.) In the 1901 census, Rosetta Casselden was not living with her husband; and she declared herself to be Rosetta Barnard and her 10 y.o. son Alan Charles Butler to be 'Allan Barnard' who was born in 'New York'. Prior to cohabiting with Thomas Bidgood, she had three more sons (1893 - Thomas George who died in infancy; 1896 - Thomas Walter; and 1898 - Henry James), all were registered as 'Barnard' (Harry Bidgood was Henry James Barnard). Thomas Walter was registered with Butler as the mother's name, the other two had Casselden. By the time Thomas Bidgood left his wife and son Albert Thomas, and set up home with Rosetta Casselden/Butler, Alan Charles Butler had moved on; and the remaining three sons adopted the surname Bidgood. A fourth was born in 1914 and named Warwick Bidgood. It is/was not a requirement of English law to register a change of name. Deed Poll is optional.

The adopted surname of Anthony Bernard would therefore seen to have derived from his mother's use of Barnard. Though why she did remains to be ascertained." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.77.47 (talk) 01:14, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]