Hubert J. Foss

Hubert James Foss was an English pianist, composer, and first Musical Editor for Oxford University Press at Amen House in London. His work at the Press was a major factor in promoting music and musicians in England between the world wars, most notably Ralph Vaughan Williams, through publishing and encouraging performance of their works. In doing this work, he made the Music Department of OUP a major publisher of music in the early and midtwentieth century.

Foss was born at Croydon, to the south of London, the youngest of the thirteen children of Frederick Foss , a solicitor, and Anne Penny Bartrum . His fathers father, Edward Foss , had also been a solicitor as well as a historian and biographer of English law and judiciary. Fosss elder sister, Josephine , served as a missionary and teacher of English in Asia and Africa.

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