Gundry, Inglis (1905–2000)

English composer. Educated at Oxford, he read classics and philosophy, then qualified as a barrister, but turned to literature, writing poems and a novel, The Countess's Penny (1934), and working as a teacher and a librarian. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, under Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gordon Jacob, and Reginald Morris. After war service in the navy, he became instructor lieutenant and music adviser to the Admiralty education department, for which he edited a Naval Song Book. He went on to write several operas, for which he also wrote the libretti, as well as composing and editing several other orchestral works.

Works Opera Naaman: the Leprosy of War (1937), The Return of Odysseus (after Homer, 1938), The Sleeping Beauty and Partisans (1946).

Ballet Sleep.

Orchestral Variations on an Indian theme and overture Per mare, per terram for orchestra; Comedy Overture for small orchestra; Sostenuto and Vivace for strings.

Chamber Fantasy string quartet.

Other songs.