The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near the graves of Herbert Howells and Charles ...

That Vaughan Williams should have invited his mistress ... You are mine at last!" Ralph and Ursula's affair flourished during the early years of the war, though it remained frustrated by the ...

During World War One, Vaughan Williams enlisted to fight (even though he was technically too old) and he spent a difficult two years as a stretcher-bearer on the front line before being appointed ...

Up to a point, Vaughan Williams’s background and upbringing ... (ancestors included Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood). Young Ralph began to compose at 6, then spent two years at the Royal ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Drawing on the influences of English folk song and Tudor polyphony, Ralph succeeded at reviving British ...