Background
NEEDHAM, Alicia Adelaide. Associate of the Royal Academy of Music was born in County Meath. Daughter of J. W. Montgomery.
Wife of Doctor Joseph Needham.
NEEDHAM, Alicia Adelaide. Associate of the Royal Academy of Music was born in County Meath. Daughter of J. W. Montgomery.
Wife of Doctor Joseph Needham.
Studied at Victoria College Londonderry. Royal Academy of Music, London. Studied pianoforte under Arthur O’Leary, and harmony and counterpoint under Professor Prout and Mr.
F. Davenport.
Ovate Bardess of the Welsh Gorsedd (title Telyn-yrIwerdon—Harp of Ireland).
Honourable Member of the Irish Literary Society, London. Chairman first meeting of Pan-Celtic Association, Belfast, 1898. Associate of Philharmonic Society, 1902.
Prize-winner (six successive years) for the best original songs, et cetera, Feis Ceoil, Irish Musical Festival.
Winner of the £100 prize (Earl of March’s Committee) for the best Coronation Song, 1002-words by Harold Begbie,—entitled “The Seventh English Edward”. First and only Lady President Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1906. A. R.C.M., L.R.A.M., composer ana pianist.