Introduction

Biography

William was the son of Will­iam El­li­ot Ha­dow and Mary Lang Cor­nish.

He stu­died at Mal­vern Col­lege, then Wor­ces­ter Col­lege, Ox­ford, where he taught and be­came Dean in 1889.

In 1905, he was elect­ed the first Old Mal­vern­i­an mem­ber of the Coun­cil of Mal­vern Col­lege.

In 1909, he was ap­point­ed prin­ci­pal of Arm­strong Col­lege in the New­cas­tle Di­vision of Dur­ham Uni­ver­si­ty be­fore be­com­ing Ward­en & Vice Chan­cel­lor of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Dur­ham in 1916.

In 1919, he be­came Vice Chan­cel­lor of Shef­field Uni­ver­si­ty, a post he held un­til 1930.

As chair­man of sev­er­al com­mit­tees, he pub­lished a ser­ies of re­ports on edu­ca­tion, not­a­bly The Edu­ca­tion of the Ad­o­les­cent (1926) which called for the re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of el­e­men­ta­ry ed­uc­at­ion, the aband­on­ment of all-age schools, and the cre­ation of sec­ond­a­ry mo­dern schools. These be­came known as the Ha­dow Re­ports. He was a lead­ing in­flu­ence in Eng­lish edu­ca­tion at all lev­els in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hadow al­so wrote a num­ber of pub­li­ca­tions on mu­sic and mu­sic the­ory, in­clud­ing the Ox­ford His­to­ry of Mu­sic, which he wrote and ed­it­ed. In ad­di­tion, he was a com­pos­er and mem­ber of the Coun­cil of the Roy­al Col­lege of Mu­sic.

Hadow was award­ed a Knight Ba­che­lor in 1918 and Com­mand­er of the Most Ex­cel­lent Or­der of the Brit­ish Em­pire in 1920.

Works

• Music (Will­iams & Nor­gate, 1925)
• Collected Es­says (Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 1928
• English Mu­sic (Lon­don: Long­mans Green & Com­pa­ny, 1931
• William Byrd 1623–1923 (Lon­don: Hum­phrey Mil­ford, 1920)
• A Com­par­i­son of Po­et­ry and Mu­sic (Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 1926)