# Graham Peel

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Graham_Peel
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Graham_Peel.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Peel
> Source revision: 1355401125
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|English composer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

'''[Gerald] Graham Peel''' (1877 – November 1937) was an [English](/source/English_people) [composer](/source/composer).

==Life==

Graham Peel's father was Gerald Peel, a millionaire Lancashire cotton spinner<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247478339 |title=Music Stage Radio |newspaper=[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph_(Sydney)) |volume=II |issue=312 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 March 1938 |accessdate=10 February 2019 |page=11 (Daily Telegraph Home Magazine) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and magistrate of [Pendlebury](/source/Pendlebury), near [Manchester](/source/Manchester), England.

During his life, Peel was one of the first persons 'to take parties inside prisons to entertain the inmates', and of unobtrusive character, was later remembered for his generosity.<ref name=NewSun1938>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166680376 |title=Composer's fortune |newspaper=[The Newcastle Sun](/source/The_Newcastle_Sun) |issue=6279 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 January 1938 |accessdate=10 February 2019 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  Clothes and jobs for prisoners were provided through Peel with his involvement in the Dorset and Bournemouth Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212008625 |title=His forte is helping crooks. |newspaper=King Island News |volume=24 |issue=1187 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=16 October 1935 |accessdate=10 February 2019 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

He was a resident of 'Marden Ash', [Bournemouth](/source/Bournemouth) on his death, after a year's illness.<ref name=NewSun1937>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166686765 |title=Composer's death |newspaper=[The Newcastle Sun](/source/The_Newcastle_Sun) |issue=6232 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 December 1937 |accessdate=10 February 2019 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  A [philanthropist](/source/Philanthropy), he died leaving £191,499.<ref name=NewSun1938 />

==Compositions==

Peel wrote more than 100 [songs](/source/songs), many of them settings of [A. E. Housman](/source/A._E._Housman).<ref>Charles Osborne - The Concert Song Companion: A Guide to the Classical ...2012 - - Page 231 1475700490 "Graham Peel (1877—1937), composer of more than 100 songs, the best of them pleasantly tuneful, was especially drawn to A. E. Housman, as, understandably, were most composers of his generation. Peel's setting of “In summertime on ..."</ref>  Many settings were for folk songs and [piano](/source/piano)forte solos,<ref name=NewSun1937 /> and performed as far abroad as Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189192928 |title=Entertainments |newspaper=[The Telegraph](/source/Telegraph_(Brisbane)) |issue=17614 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=18 May 1929 |accessdate=10 February 2019 |page=3 (Second edition) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  His tunes included: 
::Almond, wild almond 
::Go down to Kew in lilac time 
::Her loveliness 
::In summer time on Bredon (well regarded, and written c. 1908)<ref name=NewSun1938 />
::[Loveliest of trees](/source/Loveliest_of_trees%2C_the_cherry_now) 
::Oh like a Queen 
::Spring waters 
::The early morning 
::The lute-player 
::The wild swan

The 1920 tune 'The challenge' was composed by Peel to the words of the poem of the same name by Scottish-Australian poet and bush balladeer [Will H. Ogilvie](/source/William_Henry_Ogilvie) (1869–1963).<ref>{{Citation | author1=Peel, Graham | author2=Ogilvie, Will H. (Will Henry), 1869-1963 | title=The challenge : song | date=1920 | publisher=Chappell & Co | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32555292 | accessdate=10 February 2019 }}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peel, Graham}}
Category:1877 births
Category:1937 deaths
Category:20th-century English composers
Category:20th-century English male composers
Category:English male songwriters
Category:Musicians from Bournemouth
Category:Prison music

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Graham Peel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Peel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Peel?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.