NEEDHAM, Alicia Adelaide, A.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., L.R.A.M., composer, pianist, vocalist, and lecturer. Educ.: Victoria College, Londonderry; Royal Academy of Music, London; studied pianoforte under Arthur O'Leary, and harmony and counterpoint under Professors Prout and Davenport. Ovate Bardess of the Welsh Gorsedd (title Telyn-yr-Iwerdon—Harp of Ireland); Hon. Member of the Irish Literary Society, London; Chairman first meeting of Pan-Celtic Association, Belfast, 1898; Associate of Philharmonic Society, 1902; prize-winner (six consecutive years) for the best original songs, Pels Ceoil, Irish Musical Festival; winner of the £100 prize (Earl of Mar's Committee) for the best Song in celebration of the Coronation of King Edward VII. in 1902—words by Harold Begbie—entitled The Seventh English Edward; first and only Lady President Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1906. Pubns.: about 600 songs (including Husheen and the Fairy's Lullaby), piano solos, duets, quartettes. Evening Service, and hymns; Seven Songs for Soldiers, including Who Carries the Gun? and Who's that Calling? three Dialect Songs, three Sacred Songs, three Love Songs—Arabic, Irish, Connaught; Bad Luck to their Marching, Might I March through Life again, The Gordons, Ballad of the Victoria Cross, Passing Thro', My Dear and only Love; Irish Song-Cycle—'A Bunch of Shamrocks; Twelve Small Songs for Small People; 100 Songs for the American Public Schools; Scottish Song Cycle—A Bunch of Heather; and The Little Drummer, 1907; fifty French Songs, 1908; numerous new songs and hymns, 1909: Military Song Cycle, Red, White and Blue, 1911; Irish Song Cycle—A Branch of Arbutus, 1914; fifty Christmas Carols, etc. Recns.: horse-riding, driving, bicycling, study of language and Irish antiquities, travelling, rifle shooting, photography, and swimming. Dau. of J. W. Montgomery; b. near Dublin; m. 1892, Dr. Joseph Needham (d. 1920). Res.: 34 King's Avenue, Clapham Park, London S.W.