Ruth Railton
Ruth Railton | |
---|---|
Born | Folkestone, Kent, England | 14 December 1915
Died | 23 February 2001 London, England | (aged 85)
Nationality | British |
Education | St Mary's School, Wantage Royal Academy of Music |
Occupation | Music director |
Spouse | Cecil Harmsworth King |
Parent(s) | David Railton Ruby Marion Wilson |
Dame Ruth Railton DBE (14 December 1915 – 23 February 2001) was a British music director and conductor.
After St. Mary's School, Wantage, and the Royal Academy of Music, she became director of music or choral work for several schools including St. Catherine’s, Bramley. She founded the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 1948. She was an adjudicator of the Federation of Music Festivals from 1946-74.[1] She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.
She was one of four daughters and one son, David, born to the Rev David Railton, the son of George Scott Railton, who was second in command of William and Catherine Booth's Salvation Army. In 1962, she married Cecil Harmsworth King; he died in 1987 at their home in Dublin, where they had relocated.
After his death, she became patron of the Cecil King Award for the Young Manager of the Year, promoted jointly by the Irish Management Institute, the Institute of Management in Northern Ireland and The Irish Times.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b Obituary: Dame Ruth Railton, The Guardian (1 March 2001); accessed 13 April 2016.
- ^ Obituary, telegraph.co.uk; accessed 13 April 2016.
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Pages using infobox person with multiple parents
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- 1915 births
- 2001 deaths
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Conductors (music) awarded knighthoods
- Place of birth missing
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
- People educated at St Mary's School, Wantage
- People educated at Heathfield School, Ascot
- 20th-century conductors (music)