Person:Charles Western (7)

Kenneth George Western writes in a January 2001 "[Charles Lewis Western] came from Essex. I knew only Charles from that branch. He appeared mysteriously at our home when I was young. Charles was doing a spot of freelance music school-mastering in nearby Hornsey, and with commendable Western prudence didn't see why he should spend money on hotel bills when we were within a few bars short of a symphony from the school. Charles lived then in Prittlewell (the posh part of Southend), and was a organist in Southend-on-sea, and music director of the Billericay Choral and Operatic Society in Essex. Very wisely he married the daughter of a local farmer [Winfred Fisher]. Later they moved to Mill Hill where Charles became music master at Hendon Grammar School. Charles worked on a freelance basis for television - ITV I believe - and he had a hand, more probably two, in the English National Opera in London."

24 Feb. 1972 Calgary news: Is this him?

•A full-scale opera production, “The Tenor”, with Charles Western and Lorill Drummond will highlight the festival, March 10 – 12"

Is this him: March 2004 BRENTWOOD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA On Saturday 27th March Brentwood Philharmonic Orchestra presents Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 with soloist Charles Western and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2. Conducted by Roger Lawrence. At Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School, Queens

1. ↑ Birth certificate : ONS Billericay 1908 Dec 4a 630.