one of the earliest members of the Folk-lore Society (1879), and was elected president in 1897 and 1898. Besides presidential addresses he contributed many valuable articles to the society's journal, the 'Folk-lore Record,' and in 1892 he edited a volume of 'Transactions' of the International Folk-lore Congress (1891). In 1886 he helped to establish the English Goethe Society. He was one of the founders of the movement which led in 1898 to the formation of the Irish Texts Society. His most important literary productions were: 'Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail with Special Reference to the Hypothesis of its Celtic Origin' (1888, Folk-lore Soc. vol. 23), and two essays on The Irish Vision of the Happy Otherworld and The Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth, appended to 'The Voyage of Bran, son of Febal, to the Land of the Living, an Old Irish Saga now first edited with Translation by Kuno Meyer' (Grimm Library, vols. 4 and 6, 1895–7).
On 21 May 1910, while on a holiday at Melun on the Seine, he was out driving with an invalid son, who fell into the river; Nutt bravely plunged to the rescue but was unfortunately drowned. His wife, Mrs. M. L. Nutt, who had been his secretary for several years, succeeded him as head of the firm. Two sons survived him.
Nutt also wrote:
- 'The Aryan Expulsion and Return Formula in the Folk and Hero Tales of the Celts' (Folk-lore Record, vol. iv. 1881).
- 'Mabinogion Studies, I. The Mabinogi of Branwen, Daughter of Llyr' (ib. vol. v. 1882).
- 'Celtic and Mediæval Romance,' 1899 (Popular Studies, no. 1).
- 'Ossian and Ossianic Literature,' 1899 (ib. no. 3).
- 'The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare,' 1900 (ib. no. 6).
- 'Cuchulainn, the Irish Achilles,' 1900 (ib. no. 8).
- 'The Legends of the Holy Grail,' 1902 (ib. no. 14).
He added notes to Douglas Hyde's 'Beside the Fire, a Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories' (1890); introductions and notes to several volumes of Lord A. Campbell's 'Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition'; a preface to Jeremiah Curtin's 'Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World'; a chapter on Folk-lore to 'Field and Folk-lore,' by H. Lowerison (1899); introduction, notes, and appendix to Matthew Arnold's 'Study of Celtic Literature' (1910), and notes to Lady Charlotte Guest's 'Mabinogion' (1902; revised and enlarged 1904).
[Obituary notice by E. Clodd in Folk-lore, 30 Sept. 1910, pp. 335-7 (with lithograph portrait) and pp. 512-14; The Tunes, 24 May 1910; Athenæum, and Publishers' Circular, 28 May 1910; Bookseller, 27 May 1910; Who's Who, 1910.]
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OAKELEY, Sir HERBERT STANLEY (1830–1903), musical composer, born at Ealing on 22 July 1830, was second son of Sir Herbert Oakeley, third baronet [q. v.]. Educated at Rugby and at Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1853 and proceeded M.A. in 1856. Oakeley showed an early taste for music, studied harmony with Stephen Elvey while at Oxford, and later visited Leipzig, Dresden, and Bonn, having organ lessons from Johann Schneider, and theory and piano lessons from Moscheles, Plaidy, and others. In 1865 he was elected Reid professor of music in Edinburgh University. He did much to improve the position of the chair; converted the annual 'Reid concert' into a three days' festival; engaged the Hallé orchestra to take part in concerts; gave frequent organ recitals in the music class room; and organised and conducted a University Musical Society. He was also director of music at St. Paul's episcopal church, Edinburgh, and in 1876 he directed the music at the inauguration of the Scottish national monument to the Prince Consort. He was then knighted by Queen Victoria at Holyrood, and was appointed 'composer to the Queen in Scotland.' To Queen Victoria, who appreciated his work, he dedicated many of his compositions. He received numerous honorary degrees, Mus.Doc. (Oxford, Dublin, St. Andrews, Edinburgh and Adelaide) and LL.D. (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow). He retired from his professorship in 1891, and died unmarried at Eastbourne on 26 Oct. 1903. Oakeley was an excellent organist, with a marked gift for improvisation. He gave frequent popular lectures on musical subjects, was musical critic to the 'Guardian' 1858-68, and contributed to other journals. He was a prolific composer of vocal and instrumental music. Twenty of his songs were published in a 'Jubilee Album' (1887) dedicated to Queen Victoria. He wrote also twelve part-songs for mixed choir, choruses for male voices and students' songs, and made
