LITHGOW, ALEX F.

Alex F. Lithgow, the so-called March King of the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand), was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1870; his family moved to Invercargill, New Zealand , when he was six years old. New Zealand had been made a British crown colony in 1840, gold was discovered in 1861, and many of the emigrants from Scotland and England who were attracted by the two events took their instruments and music along. Both Alex and his older brother Tom were tutored...