See also
| Husband: | Philip KING-SMITH (1897-1971) | |
| Wife: | Rosemary BOUCHER (1905-1998) | |
| Children: | LIVING | |
| Arthur Beresford KING-SMITH (1931-2021) | ||
| Marriage | 1 Jun 1926 | Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales1 |
| Name: | Philip KING-SMITH | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Nickname: | Joe | |
| Alt. Name: | [unnamed person] | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 13 Jun 1897 | Buckfastleigh, Devon, England |
| Census | 2 Apr 1911 (age 13) | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England2 |
| Bitton Hill House | ||
| Occupation | 2 Apr 1911 (age 13) | school; Bitton, Gloucestershire, England2 |
| Census | 29 Sep 1939 (age 42) | Bathavon, Somerset, England3 |
| The Tower House, Kelston | ||
| Occupation | 29 Sep 1939 (age 42) | Managing Director, Golden Valley Paper Mills Ltd., Paper manufacturer; Bathavon, Somerset, England3 |
| The Tower House, Kelston | ||
| Death | Q3 1971 (age 74) | Bristol, Gloucestershire, England4 |
| Burial | 22 Sep 1971 | Bitton, Gloucestershire, England5 |
| in St Mary | ||
| Name: | Rosemary BOUCHER6 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Arthur William BOUCHER (1870-1948) | |
| Mother: | Frances Claribel HEARD (1873-1967) | |
| Birth | 17 Sep 1905 | Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales6 |
| Census | 2 Apr 1911 (age 5) | St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales6 |
| Wellwood Drive, Dinas Powis | ||
| Occupation | 2 Apr 1911 (age 5) | school; St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales6 |
| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 15 yrs 9 mns) | St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales7 |
| 6 Wellwood Drive, Dinas Powis | ||
| Census | 29 Sep 1939 (age 34) | Bathavon, Somerset, England3 |
| The Tower House, Kelston | ||
| Occupation | 29 Sep 1939 (age 34) | Unpaid domestic duties; Bathavon, Somerset, England3 |
| Death | 4 Oct 1998 (age 93) | Keynsham, Somerset, England |
| Name: | LIVING | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Name: | Arthur Beresford KING-SMITH | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Margaret Ede MORRISON (1932-1985) | |
| Spouse 2: | Kathleen Margaret LUCAS (1945-2017) | |
| Birth | 10 Jun 1931 | Keynsham, Somerset, England |
| Residence | btw 2002 and 2021 (age 70-90) | Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England |
| 8 South Parade | ||
| Death | 30 Sep 2021 (age 90) | |
| OBITUARY Beresford King-Smith, who died earlier this week at the age of 90, was an employee and chronicler of the CBSO for half of the Orchestra's entire history. Born near Bath in 1931, he left the family paper business to join the CBSO's management in January 1964. By the time he retired, in January 2014, he had served the Orchestra as Concert Manager, Deputy Chief Executive and latterly Honorary Archivist for an unprecedented (and unsurpassed) 50 years. Beresford joined the CBSO under the conductorship of Hugo Rignold, and took a hands-on role in the running of the orchestra from his very first day - fixing and managing the musicians, as well as organising extensive tours in Europe, both East and West of the Iron Curtain: a formidable task in an era before email or fax. Beresford handled the situation when Rignold was briefly arrested by Soviet border guards as a suspected spy during the 1968 Czechoslovakia tour, and negotiated with Yugoslavian officials when players were mistakenly detained during the 1972 Eastern Bloc tour. He played a leading role in the establishment of the CBSO Chorus in 1972; somehow he'd also found time to write the first official history of the CBSO in 1970, and to design the organisation's first ever logo. He was also the man on the spot in March 1978, when he arrived at work to find that both the general manager and the music director Louis Frémaux had resigned over the weekend. Beresford's professionalism as acting general manager steadied the CBSO in the most serious crisis of its postwar existence, and led to the appointment of Edward Smith as general manager and Simon Rattle as chief conductor - and all that followed. After serving as part of the team that implemented the expansion of the Orchestra in 1988 and the move to Symphony Hall in 1991, Beresford took early retirement in 1993 to write Crescendo!, the first full-length history of the CBSO, which was published by Methuen to mark the CBSO's 75th anniversary in 1995. He continued to work, unpaid, as the CBSO's Honorary Archivist for a further two decades and he was a familiar and friendly presence at CBSO Centre - creating a superb archive of CBSO documents and recordings, fielding public inquiries about the orchestra's history, and writing a regular history column in the CBSO's in-house magazine Music Stand, which he founded and (for many years) edited. Semi-retirement freed Beresford to involve himself even more deeply in the musical life of the West Midlands. He was a gifted composer and choral conductor and between 1955 and 1963, as founder of the (still active) Bath Cantata Group, he conducted pioneering performances of Schütz, Gabrieli and Monteverdi. Early music and choral music remained a passion after he moved to Birmingham. From his home in Sutton Coldfield, which he shared with his wife Margot and (after Margot's death of cancer in 1985) his second wife Kate (who died in 2017), he served as Chair of the Midlands Early Music Forum until 2004, and music director of the Circle Singers of Royal Leamington Spa. Beresford was a member of Sutton Coldfield United Reformed Church, and his faith inspired both his charitable work (he was a co-founder of the Christian African Relief Trust) and his compositions, which ranged from the choral Psalm Symphony (2005) to hymns, anthems, chamber musicals and carols – many of which have been performed in the CBSO's annual Christmas concerts. But to all who worked with him at the CBSO, he will be remembered principally as a wise, generous and utterly unflappable colleague; a living embodiment of the CBSO's history, and one of the quiet heroes of musica in the Midlands (and the wider UK) over a long life of devoted service to the art, and the community, that he loved. Richard Bratby |
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| 1 | Free BMD Marriage. Cardiff vol 11A page 665. Cit. Date: Q2 1926. |
| 2 | Text From Source: Census England 1911 Address: Bitton Hill House Place: Bitton, Gloucestershire, England Name,Relation,Sex,Age,Married,Years,Chd Born,Chd Living,Chd Died,Occupation,Industry,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Nationality,Infirmity Charles King-Smith,Head,M,49,M,,,,,Paper Manufacturer,writing and account book paper,,,Watford, Hertfordshire, England,, Alice Elizabeth King-Smith,Wife,F,44,M,19,5,5,,,,,,Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England,, Philip King-Smith,Son,M,13,S,,,,,school,,,,Buckfastleigh, Devon, England,, Alan King-Smith,Son,M,10,S,,,,,school,,,,Buckfastleigh, Devon, England,, Frederick Charles King-Smith,Son,M,9,S,,,,,,,,,Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, England,, Arthur King-Smith,Visitor,M,51,M,,,,,wholesale stationer,,,,Watford, Hertfordshire, England,, Colin King-Smith,Visitor,M,16,S,,,,,student,farming,,,Watford, Hertfordshire, England,, There were four servants: Hannah Hannant, nurse, 69, Emily White, Housemaid, 50, Maud Elsie Ford, cook, 24 and Ada Hodder, housemaid, 22. |
| 3 | Text From Source: Register England & Wales 1939 Address: The Tower House, Kelston Place: Bathavon, Somerset Name of person,Status,Gender,Birthdate,Condition,Occupation,Comments King-Smith, Philip,,M,13 Jun 1897,M,Managing Director, Golden Valley Paper Mills Ltd., Paper manufacturer,Senior Warden of P.M.Warden, Kelston, First Aid Cert (St John's) King-Smith, Rosemary,,F,17 Sep 1905,M,Unpaid domestic duties,Casualty Section A.R.P. for Kelston. First Aid Cert (St John's) Medlock, Monica,,F,18 May 1911,S,Elementary School Teacher,In charge of evacuated children from Barking, Essex. First Aid Cert. Clarke, France H.M.,s,,F,1 Dec 1900,S,Unpaid domestic duties,voluntary helper in evacuee scheme from Barking, Essex There were also three boys and three girls, between the ages of 7 and 12, evacuees from Barking, Essex. There were more evacuees staying at other homes in the village. In addition Philip and Rosemary had two servants living with them - Phyllis Howes, House Parlourmaid, 21, and Dorothy Harrold, 20, cook. |
| 4 | Free BMD Death. Bristol Vol 7B Page 562. Cit. Date: Q3 1971. |
| 5 | Gloucestershire, Bristol Burial Index. Bitton St Mary. Cit. Date: 22 September 1971. Archive reference Burials, 1850-1993 (P/B/R/4/b) |
| 6 | Text From Source: Census Wales 1911 Address: Wellwood Drive, Dinas Powis Place: St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales Name,Relation,Sex,Age,Married,Years,Chd Born,Chd Living,Chd Died,Occupation,Industry,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Nationality,Infirmity,Language Arthur William Boucher,Head,M,40,M,,,,,manager for coal exporters,,,,Gobowen, Shropshire, England,,, Frances Claribel Boucher,Wife,F,37,M,9,3,3,-,,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,, Grace Boucher,Daughter,F,8,S,,,,,school,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,, Rosemary Boucher,Daughter,F,5,S,,,,,school,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,, Hugh Frederick David Boucher,Son,M,2,S,,,,,,,,,Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales,,, Their cook - Jocelyn Mary Prosser, 22, was living with them |
| 7 | Text From Source: Census England 1921 Address: 6 Wellwood Drive, Dinas Powis Place: St Andrews, Glamorgan, Wales Name,Relation,Age,Sex,Married,Where Born,Nationality,Education,Occupation,Employment,Place of Work,Chd <16,Children's Ages Arthur William Boucher,Head,50y 11m,M,Married,Gobowen, Shropshire, England,,,manager for firm of coal exporters,Wm Milburn & Co Ltd., Cardiff,Cardiff,2, Frances Claribel Boucher,Wife,48y 2m,F,Married,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,,home duties,,,, Rosemary Boucher,Daughter,15y 9m,F,Single,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,Whole-time,,,,, Hugh Frederick David Boucher,Son,13,M,Both Alive,Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, Wales,,Whole-time,,,,, Annie Elizabeth Boucher,Sister,46y 10m,F,Single,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,,home duties,,,, Florence Margaret Boucher,Visitor,44y 2m,F,Single,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,,,home duties,,,, Frederick Charles King Smith,Visitor,19y 3m,M,Single,Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, England,,,(paper making machinery) engineering student,Arthur Sheldon & Sons, Wells, Somerset,Wells,, |