Background
WALTON, Herbert Francis Raine was born in 1869 in Thirsk, Yorkshire. Son of James Walton, organist and schoolmaster, Thirsk.
WALTON, Herbert Francis Raine was born in 1869 in Thirsk, Yorkshire. Son of James Walton, organist and schoolmaster, Thirsk.
York; Royal College, of Music, London.
Won an Open Scholarship at the Royal College of Music, London, and after spending four years at that institution was appointed private organist to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, and later at St Mark’s, Woodhouse Parish Church, Leeds, for six years. One of the six selected candidates for St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 1897. Organist and Choirmaster of Glasgow Cathedral since 1897.
Clubs: Palette; Glasgow Society of Musicians.