Humfrey, Pelham (1647-1674)

English composer. At the Restoration in 1660 he entered the re-established Chapel Royal in London under Henry Cooke, joined John Blow and William Turner in the composition of the so-called ‘club anthem’, and was sent abroad for study by Charles II in 1664. On his return from France and Italy in 1667 he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, where in 1672 he succeeded Cooke as Master of the Children.

Works Stage music to Shakespeare's The Tempest (1674), Dryden's The Conquest of Granada and The Indian Emperor, Crowne's History of Charles VIII, and Wycherley's Love in a Wood.

Other anthems; odes, sacred songs, airs for one and two voices.