Born: January 19, 1869, Southampton, England.
Died: June 24, 1948.
Harold was the son of Arthur Osmond and Matilda Bartrum. He married twice: to Florence Stuart Peat (died 1902) and Rosa Annie Pickering.
A composer and organist, Osmond studied at the Guildhall School of Music under D. Beardwell, Henry Gadsby, and others.
He conducted the Broadstairs and St. Peter’s Choral Societies, and later the Coventry Amateur Operatic Society. He also served as organist at St. Peter’s, Bethnal Green (1884); St. Barnabas, Homerton (1886); and organist and choir director at St. Peter’s, Thanet (1889).
In 1888, Osmond became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
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