A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Whitmore, Charles

WHITMORE, Charles Shapland, born 1805, at Colchester, educated at Rugby and Cambridge; called to the Bar 1830; Q.C. 1855; County Court Judge 1857. He was an enthusiastic amateur, and composed various songs, viz. 'Oh Sorrow' (Barry Cornwall), 'Oh, the merry days,' 'Farewell, I know thy future days'; and, in 1830, 'Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.' This last, with accompaniments by Rawlings, enjoyed very great popularity, and as recently as 1878 was republished with fresh accompaniments, as 'a celebrated English ditty of the olden time.' Mr. Whitmore died in 1877, and on his deathbed composed a Kyrie, which is good enough to be included in the Temple Church Service Collection. His brother, Lt.-Gen. Francis Locker Whitmore, was director of the Military Music School nt Kneller Hall, which he left in 1880. [See Kneller Hall.]

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