Darke

Dr Harold Edwin Darke (29 October 1888 – 28 November 1976) was an English composer and organist. Darke was born in Highbury, London the youngest son of Samuel Darke & Arundel Bourne. He married a violinist, Dora Garland, the first woman to lead the Queen's Hall Orchestra, in 1918. His first organist job was at Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead from 1906 to 1911. He became organist at St Michael's Cornhill in 1916, and stayed there until 1966, leaving only briefly in 1941 to deputise for Boris Ord as Director of Music at King's College