Harry Crane Perrin

Perrin was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.{{cite journal |title=Master Musicians |journal=The Musical Journal |date=June 1907 |volume=20 |issue=234 |pages=87–88 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/eef32974a9cac2c9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2559 |accessdate=26 September 2019}} He attended Wellingborough Grammar School, and studied music under Sir Robert Prescott Stewart at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1890,{{cite book |last1=Venn |first1=John |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume 2 |date=1953 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108036153 |page=96 |edition=2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFn-UAo5ZqUC&q=Perrin&pg=PA95 |accessdate=26 September 2019}} as a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1892, and as a Doctor of Music in 1901.

He composed the cantatas "Abode of Worship" and "Pan's Pipes" (both published by Breitkopf), Song of War (published by Weekes), morning and evening services, anthems, hymn tunes and songs (some of which were published by Novello & Co).Memorials of the Cathedral & Priory of Christ in Canterbury, by Woodru C. Eveleigh (Charles Eveleigh)

He was organist at St Columba's College, Dublin, at Lowestoft, and, following a competition on the organ at Westminster Abbey, at Coventry Cathedral. He was organist and choirmaster at Canterbury Cathedral for ten years. In 1908, he moved to Canada to take up an appointment as professor of music at McGill University in Montreal and director of the Conservatorium{{cite journal |title=Portraits and World's News |journal=The Illustrated London News |date=19 October 1907 |page=6 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/19071019/025/0006 |accessdate=26 September 2019 |location=London, England}}{{cite book |last1=Keillor |first1=Elaine |title=Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity |date=2008 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=9780773533912 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4rf9W02vv0C&q=%22Harry+Crane+Perrin%22&pg=PT139 |accessdate=26 September 2019}}{{cite news |title=Canterbury |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001404/19080229/029/0002 |accessdate=26 September 2019 |work=Canterbury Journal and Farmers' Gazette |date=29 February 1908 |location=Canterbury, England |page=2}} and was presented to King Edward VII prior to his departure. Perrin restructured the curriculum at the Conservatorium so that instead of simply learning an instrument or singing, students also studied the history and theory of music.{{cite news |title=Changes In Music. McGill Conservatorium Adopts Curriculum More In Accord University Idea |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/419727799/?terms=%22Harry%2BCrane%2BPerrin%22 |accessdate=26 September 2019 |work=The Gazette |date=26 March 1909 |location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada |page=14}} In 1920, a Faculty of Music was established at the university,{{cite book |last1=Elliott |first1=Robin |last2=Smith |first2=Gordon Ernest |title=Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory |date=2001 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=9780773521025 |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfI2W86k5d0C&q=%22Harry+Crane+Perrin%22&pg=PA36 |accessdate=26 September 2019}} and Perrin was its first dean until his retirement in 1930.{{cite news |title=McGill's First Dean of Music Dies in England |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/419534967/?terms=%22Harry%2BCrane%2BPerrin%22 |accessdate=26 September 2019 |work=The Gazette |date=17 November 1953 |location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada |page=29}} He also established an orchestra and a choir there, and developed a Canada-wide system of musical examinations.

He married Enid Hilda Pridmore in Coventry in 1896; they had one son and one daughter.Perrin died at his home in Exeter, Devon, in 1953.

Organist of:

• St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham 1886 - 1888
• St. John's Church, Lowestoft 1888 - 1892
• St. Michael's Church, Coventry 1893 - 1898{{cite news |title=St Michael's Musicians |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000337/19320201/068/0003 |accessdate=26 September 2019 |work=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=1 February 1932 |location=Coventry, England |page=3}}
• Canterbury Cathedral 1898 - 1908

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