Researching Gerald Cumberland
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 757 people with the Cumberland surname? In that year Cumberland was ranked number 2824 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Gerald means "Spear Warrior" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Gerald Cumberland on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Gerald Cumberland and the Cumberland Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 811 people with the Cumberland surname in the UK? Cumberland is now ranked number 3279 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Gerald Cumberland
Gerald Cumberland
__NOTOC__Gerald Cumberland is the pseudonym of the British author, journalist, poet, and composer Charles Frederick Kenyon (1879-1926). Kenyon was a librettist, a writer of essays and of some pieces of police literature.
Trained as a musician, for several years Kenyon was the drama and music critic of Daily Critic. In 1901 under his own as name, he produced a study of the work of the writer and playwright Hall Caine and in 1904, a work for beginner musicians.
As a composer, his musical scores included The Maiden and the Flower Garden (1914), an operetta for children. The orchestration by Julius Harrison of his Cleopatra cantata helped the young Harrison towards recognition as a composer. In 1919 he used the pseudonym Gerald Cumberland to publish his "Books of Reminiscences", two important critical essays on musical life in England, as well some works of police literature. His book Set Down in Malice was partly based on his two extensive interviews (1906 and 1913) of Edward Elgar, and also describes a meeting with G.B.Shaw as A Terrible Walk.
Source: Gerald Cumberland, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Cumberland
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