Vaughan Williams

By erin.clarke

  • Birth

    Ralph (pronounced ‘Rafe’) Vaughan Williams is born at the Vicarage in Down Ampney on 12th October.
  • Period: to

    The life of Vaughan Williams

  • Family

    Vaughan Williams’s father dies on the 9th February.
    The family returns to live at Leith Hill Place near Dorking in Surrey, the home of Margaret Wedgwood’s parents.

  • Musical beginnings

    Ralph receives first lessons in violin. Soon after he begins to write little operas for a toy theatre which was given to him as a present. His manuscript book is entitled, “Overtures by Mr R.V. Williams”.

  • Death

    Dies 26th August at Hanover Terrace.