Thom's Irish Who's Who/Lacy, Professor Frederick St. John

LACY, Professor Frederick St. John, F.R.A.M.; Professor of Music in the National University of Ireland, at University College, Cork, since 1910; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London; Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, London; Life Member of the Musical Association, London; Life Member Society of Authors and Composers, London. Educ.: Castleknock College, Co. Dublin; Royal Academy of Music, London (Associate 1888; Fellow, 1911). Resident in London, 1886-1900: Associate (Royal) Philharmonic Society, 1888 (Member, 1918); Director of Music, St. Augustine's, Ramsgate, 1893-4. Returned to Cork in 1900; founded St. John Lacy Chamber Music Concerts, 1903; appointed Lecturer in Music Queen's College, Cork, 1906; University College, 1908; Examiner for Degrees in Music, N.U.I., 1909; Professor of Music, 1910; Vice-President Cork Orchestral Union, 1905-1909; Chairman Munster Association of Professional Musicians, 1909: President Cork Literary and Scientific Society, 1915-17; b 27th March, 1862, at Blackrock, Co. Cork; son of John F. Lacy (Royal Engineers), M.E., J.P. Pubns.: Music—Comic Opera, "Matrimony"; Cantata, "Annabel Lee"; Orchestral "Serenade" (Suite) in E; Incidental Music to "A Fairy Fantasy," "The Queen's Maries," "Chastelar"; Overture in A Minor, "Celtic"; String Quartet in E; Song Cycle, "The Heart's Desire"; Anthem, "Like as the Hart"; Magnificat and Nunc Dumittis in F; Benediction Service in B flat; Two Volumes of "Irish Tunes for Irish Regiments"; Some 60 songs with pianoforte accompaniment. Literary—"Notes on Irish Music"; "Song and Ballad Music," etc., etc. Recns.: chess and reading. Res.: 2 York Terrace, Cork. Club: Member Savage Club, London, 1892-1917.