OAKELEY, Sir Herbert Stanley

Sir Herbert Oakeley has done for classical music in Scotland more real good than any other single individual. The influence which he possesses as Professor of Music in Edinburgh University is of itself sufficiently great to enable him to do good beyond the power of other musicians; but when such an influence is joined to well-directed energy, and an earnest, artistic desire to further musical art, the result is beneficial to the community, and creditable to himself. To enumerate the...