Rootham, C(yril) B(radley) (1875–1938)

English organist, educationist, and composer. He studied under his father, the singer, organist, and conductor Daniel Rootham (1837–1922), and later at St John's College, Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, London. In 1901 he went back to Cambridge as organist and music director at St John's College and took the Mus. D. in 1910.

Works opera The Two Sisters (1922); choral and orchestral works Andromeda Coronach, For the Fallen (Binyon), Brown Earth, Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (Milton), City in the West, Psalm ciii; two symphonies (second with choral finale); instrumental music and songs.