Short Name: | H. Hugh Bancroft |
Full Name: | Bancroft, H. Hugh (Henry Hugh), 1904-1988 |
Birth Year: | 1904 |
Death Year: | 1988 |
Henry Hugh Bancroft was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire on February 29, 1904. Bancroft took his FRCO in 1925 and served as organist and choir director at Old Clee Parish Church for four years before emigrating to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1929. He began his Canadian career at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. He completed an external BMus at Durham in 1936. In later life, Dr Bancroft spent several years in Vancouver as organist at Christ Church Cathedral and also director of the Vancouver Bach Choir. He died in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on September 11, 1988.
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Tunes by H. Hugh Bancroft (5) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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ASCENSION (Bancroft) | Henry Hugh Bancroft, b. 1904 (Composer) | 13 | 54312 32125 67123 |
[Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts] (Bancroft) | H.H. Bancroft (Composer) | 2 | |
[Chant] (Bancroft 11111) | H. H. Bancroft (Composer) | 2 | 11111 11123 |
[Lord, have mercy upon us] (Bancroft) | H. H. Bancroft (Composer) | 2 | 11733 32221 43217 |
[Our Father, who art in heaven] (Bancroft) | H. H. Bancroft (Composer) | 2 | 12351 75 |