Charles Lucas
British cellist, composer and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Lucas was an English composer, cellist, conductor, publisher and from 1859 to 1866 third principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Life and career Lucas was born in Salisbury, the son of a music-seller. After receiving a musical education as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral between 1815 and 1823 he attended the newly formed Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied the cello under Robert Lindley and composition under the principal, William Crotch. While a student he won several prizes, became head boy and was made a sub-professor of composition in 1824. Among those he taught was William Sterndale Bennett, who four decades later succeeded him as principal of the academy. In later years Lucas taught two other musicians who eventually headed the RAM: George Macfarren and Alexander Mackenzie. The latter recalled that Lucas had been an outstanding teacher of counterpoint.
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