The British Musical Biography

[E] Stone, William Henry, physician, and
amateur musician, born July 8, 1830. Only
son of the late Rev. William Stone, sometime
canon of Canterbury Cathedral. Educated
at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating B.A.
1852 ; M.A. Entered the medical profession,
taking degree of M.B. 1856. Among his
appointments was that of consulting phy-
sician and lecturer on Physics at St. Thomas's
Hospital, London. In 1881 he accepted the
office of lecturer on musical acoustics at
Trinity College, London. An enthusiastic
amateur, he played the double-bassoon, and
also the oboe di caccia, the latter in Bach's
Christmas Oratorio in W^estminster Abbey,
and at the Hereford Festival of 1879. He
was an authority on wind instruments,
especially those of ancient date, and had a
fine collection of them. His articles in
Grove's " Dictionary" display his knowledge
in this direction. Author of Sound as
Music, 1876 ; Elementary Lessons on Sound,
1879 ; and The Scientific Basis of Music,
Novello.

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