124-515: Young Lives vs Cancer , the operating name for "CLIC Sargent", is a charity in the United Kingdom formed in 2005. Young Lives vs Cancer is the 12th largest cancer charity in the UK with a focus on children, young people and their families. Its care teams provide specialist support across the UK. Young Lives vs Cancer supports people from diagnosis onwards and aims to help the whole family deal with
248-716: A private in the Durham Light Infantry during the First World War. He was chosen for the organist post over more than 150 other applicants. In addition to his organ playing he worked on many musical projects in Leicester , Melton Mowbray and Stamford, where he not only conducted but also produced the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and others for amateur societies. The Prince of Wales and his entourage often hunted in Leicestershire and watched
372-534: A quadripoint where four ceremonial counties – Rutland, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire – would meet at a point but the location actually has two tripoints some 20 metres (22 yd) apart. The River Welland forms the border between two historic counties: Lincolnshire to the north and Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire to the south. In 1991, the boundary between Lincolnshire and Rutland (then part of Leicestershire ) in
496-476: A 1994 broadcast interview stressed that Sargent "had many good generous virtues; he was kind to many people, and I loved him...". Nevertheless, even friends such as Sir Rupert Hart-Davis , secretary of the Literary Society, considered him a "bounder", and the composer Dame Ethel Smyth called him a "cad" . Yet despite his philandering and ambition, Sargent was a deeply religious man all his life and
620-717: A borough. The Anglo-Saxons and Danes faced each other across the river. The town had grown as a Danish settlement at the lowest point that the Welland could be crossed by ford or bridge. Stamford was the only one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw not to become a county town . Initially a pottery centre making Stamford Ware , it had gained fame by the Middle Ages for its production of the woollen cloth known as Stamford cloth or haberget , which "In Henry III's reign...
744-486: A centre for the malting trade as the barley from nearby fenlands to the east and heathlands to the north and west could make its way more easily and cheaper to the town. The Great North Road passed through Stamford. It had always been a halting town for travellers; Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I all passed through and it had been a post station for the postal service journey in Elizabeth's reign. By
868-680: A conductor, made for HMV in 1923 using the acoustic process, were of excerpts from Vaughan Williams's opera Hugh the Drover. In the early days of electrical recording, he took part in a pioneering live recording of extracts of Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Albert Hall with the Royal Choral Society. Subsequently, in the recording studio, Sargent was most in demand to record English music, choral works and concertos. He recorded prolifically and worked with many orchestras, but made
992-820: A dining club founded in 1807 by William Wordsworth and others. He was also a member of the Beefsteak Club , for which his proposer was Sir Edward Elgar, the Garrick , and the long-established and aristocratic White's and Pratt's clubs. His public service appointments included the joint presidency of the London Union of Youth Clubs, and the presidency of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals . Despite Sargent's vanities and rivalries, he had many friends. Sir Thomas Armstrong in
1116-666: A feature. The main shopping area was pedestrianised in the 1970s. Near Stamford (but in the historical Soke of Peterborough ) is Burghley House , an Elizabethan mansion, built by the First Minister of Elizabeth I , Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley . It is the ancestral seat of the Marquess of Exeter . The tomb of William Cecil is in St Martin's Church, Stamford. The parkland of the Burghley Estate adjoins
1240-686: A hospital ( Stamford and Rutland Hospital ), a large medical general practice, schools (some independent) and a further education college. Hospitality is provided by several hotels, licensed premises, restaurants, tea rooms and cafés. The licensed premises reflect the history of the town. The George Hotel , Lord Burghley , William Cecil , Danish Invader and Jolly Brewer are among nearly 30 premises serving real ale . Surrounding villages and Rutland Water provide other venues and employment opportunities, as do several annual events at Burghley House. The town centre's major retail and service sector has many independent boutique stores and draws shoppers from
1364-445: A local composer, Wood invited Sargent to write a piece. Sargent did so – a tone poem , An Impression on a Windy Day , a seven-minute orchestral allegro impetuoso . He completed it too late for Wood to have enough time to learn it, and Wood called on him to conduct the first performance. Wood recognised not only the worth of the piece but also Sargent's talent as a conductor and gave him the chance to make his London debut, conducting
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#17327915126501488-597: A major part in saving it, doing much to win back the good opinion of orchestral players that he had lost because of his 1936 interview. In the 1960s, he toured Russia, the United States, Canada, Turkey, Israel, India, the Far East and Australia. By the mid-1960s his health began to deteriorate. His final conducting appearances were on 6 and 8 July 1967, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at
1612-491: A new orchestra, the London Philharmonic . In these years Sargent tackled a wide repertoire, recording much of it, but he was particularly noted for performances of choral pieces, most notably Handel 's Messiah , performed with large choruses and orchestras. He joked that his career was based on "the two M's – Messiah and Mikado ". He promoted British music, as he would throughout his career, and conducted
1736-401: A popular series of subscription concerts beginning in 1929 and on Schnabel's advice engaged Sargent as chief conductor, with guest conductors including Bruno Walter , Otto Klemperer and Stravinsky. The Courtauld-Sargent concerts, as they became known, were aimed at people who had not previously attended concerts. They attracted large audiences, bringing Sargent's name before another section of
1860-737: A popular, theatrical flag-waving extravaganza presided over by himself. He was noted for his witty addresses in which he good-naturedly chided the noisy promenaders. In his programmes he often conducted choral music and music by British composers, but his range was broad: the BBC's official history of the Proms lists selected programmes from this period showing Sargent conducting works by Bach , Sibelius, Dvořák, Berlioz , Rachmaninoff , Rimsky-Korsakov , Richard Strauss and Kodály in three successive programmes. During his chief conductorship, prestigious foreign conductors and orchestras began to perform regularly at
1984-532: A prosperous miller, farmer, coal merchant and carter – and the niece of Evangeline Astley Cooper of Hambleton Hall in Rutland , where she lived in the early 1920s. Sargent was a guest there in the same period, and his name occurs alongside hers in local press reports of social gatherings such as hunt balls . When they married, the press headlined her name rather than that of her still little-known husband. The couple were married at St Mary's Church, Drinkstone ,
2108-468: A scholarship to Stamford School , where he was a pupil from 1907 to 1912. At the same time he was preparing for the musical career his father envisaged for him. He studied piano and organ, and joined the local amateur operatic society, making his stage debut in The Mikado aged 13 and conducting for the first time the following year when the regular conductor was unavailable. On leaving school, Sargent
2232-552: A successful interpretation. He was too interested in other things, and not single-minded enough about music." Although orchestral players resented Sargent for much of his career after the 1936 interview, instrumental soloists generally liked working with him. The cellist Pierre Fournier called him a "guardian angel" and compared him favourably with George Szell and Herbert von Karajan . Artur Schnabel, Jascha Heifetz and Yehudi Menuhin thought similarly highly of him. Cyril Smith wrote in his autobiography, "...he seems to sense what
2356-626: A valedictory appearance at the end of the Last Night of the Proms in September that year, handing over the baton to his successor, Colin Davis . He died two weeks later, at the age of 72. He was buried in Stamford cemetery alongside members of his family. Toscanini, Beecham and many others regarded Sargent as the finest choral conductor in the world. Even orchestral musicians gave him credit:
2480-518: A wide area. Several streets are traffic-free. Outlets include gift shops, eateries, men's and women's outfitters, shoe shops, florists, hairdressers, beauty therapists and acupuncture and health-care services. Harrison & Dunn, Dawson of Stamford, the George Hotel and The Crown Arts Centre are other popular places. Stamford has several hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. Its branch of the national jeweller F. Hinds can trace its history back to
2604-496: A wider public with an early BBC radio relay of The Mikado in 1926 heard by up to eight million people. The Evening Standard commented that this was "probably the largest audience that has ever heard anything at one time in the history of the world". In 1927 Sergei Diaghilev engaged Sargent to conduct for the Ballets Russes , sharing the conducting with Igor Stravinsky and Sir Thomas Beecham . In 1928 Sargent
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#17327915126502728-500: Is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September. People also fundraise through runs, cycles and other events. Corporate partners currently working with Young Lives vs Cancer: Previous corporate partners include, ITV's Text Santa , Morrisons , Tesco , Chelsea F.C. , HMV and Virgin Trains West Coast . Colas Rail and Virgin Trains West Coast named 60087 and 390047 respectively as CLIC Sargent in support of
2852-513: Is based at Stamford Town Hall on St Mary's Hill, which was built in 1779. Stamford was an ancient borough . The original borough was entirely on the north bank of the River Welland, which was historically the boundary between Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire . South of the river was Stamford Baron in Northamptonshire. The Stamford constituency was enlarged in 1832 to also include the built-up part of Stamford Baron. In 1836 Stamford
2976-538: Is built on Middle Jurassic Lincolnshire limestone , with mudstones and sandstones. The area is known for limestone and slate quarries. Cream-coloured Collyweston stone slate is found on the roofs of many Stamford stone buildings. Stamford Stone in Barnack has quarries at Marholm and Holywell . Clipsham Stone has two quarries in Clipsham . In 1968, a specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
3100-642: Is customarily given. Beyond the world of music, a school and a charity were named after him: the Malcolm Sargent Primary School in Stamford and the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children. Merging with another charity (Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood) in 2005, it was renamed CLIC Sargent. In 2021 the charity was renamed again as Young Lives vs Cancer ; it is the UK's leading children's cancer charity. In 1980
3224-482: Is in Uffington Road. The Pick Motor Company was founded in Stamford in about 1898. A number of smaller firms — welders, printers and so forth — feature in collections of industrial units or more traditional premises in older, mixed-use parts of the town. Blackstone & Co was a farm implement and diesel engine manufacturing company. Stamford lies amidst some of England's richest farmland and close to
3348-516: The Beni Mora suite. In 1958 Sargent recorded Walton's Belshazzar's Feast , one of his specialities, which was reissued on CD in 1990 and again in 2004. He recorded Walton's Orb and Sceptre March and Façade Suites . He also made a stereo recording of Walton's First Symphony in the presence of the composer, but Walton privately preferred André Previn 's recording, issued in January 1967,
3472-580: The BBC : more than two thousand more followed over the next four decades. In 1926 Sargent began an association with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company that lasted, on and off, for the rest of his life. He conducted London seasons at the Prince's Theatre in 1926 and the newly rebuilt Savoy Theatre in 1929–30. He was criticised by The Times for allegedly adding "gags" to the Gilbert and Sullivan scores, although
3596-489: The Liverpool Philharmonic (1942–1948) and became a popular BBC Home Service radio broadcaster, particularly in the discussion programme The Brains Trust . He helped boost public morale during the war by extensive concert tours around the country conducting for nominal fees. On one occasion, an air raid interrupted a performance of Beethoven 's Symphony No. 7 . Sargent stopped the orchestra, reassured
3720-494: The London Philharmonic , Hallé , Liverpool Philharmonic , BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. Sargent was held in high esteem by choirs and instrumental soloists, but because of his high standards and a statement that he made in a 1936 interview disputing musicians' rights to tenure, his relationship with orchestral players was often uneasy. Despite this, he was co-founder of the London Philharmonic,
3844-734: The Master of the Queen's Music ; the Secretary of London Zoo ; and representatives of the London orchestras and of the Promenaders. Colin Davis and the BBC Chorus and Symphony Orchestra performed the music. Since 1968, the year after Sargent's death, the Proms have begun on a Friday evening rather than as previously a Saturday, and in memory of Sargent's choral work, a large-scale choral piece
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3968-692: The Ravinia Festival . On 6 July he conducted Holst's The Perfect Fool , Wieniawski 's Second Violin Concerto with Itzhak Perlman , and Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony . On 8 July he conducted Vaughan Williams's Overture The Wasps , Delius's The Walk to the Paradise Garden , Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 with David Bar-Illan , and Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 . Sargent underwent surgery in July 1967 for pancreatic cancer and made
4092-662: The Royal Mail put the image of Sargent on its 15p postage stamp in a series portraying British conductors. At Albert Hall Mansions, next to the Albert Hall, where Sargent lived, there is a blue plaque placed in his memory. Sargent's own composition, An Impression on a Windy Day , has been recorded for CD by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland on the ASV label. Sargent's first recordings as
4216-725: The Songs of Farewell (1965). At the end of the war, Sargent turned to recording Elgar. The first of Sargent's two versions of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with Heddle Nash as tenor and the familiar Sargent pairing of the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra was recorded in 1945, and six decades later was still regarded as a classic. Sargent was the conductor for Heifetz's 1949 recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto and Paul Tortelier 's first recording of
4340-618: The piano concertos have been admired. A 1961 stereo recording of the Eroica Symphony has been reissued on CD. Sargent was an enthusiastic champion of Sibelius's music, even recording it with the Vienna Philharmonic when it was not part of their repertory. Their recordings of Finlandia , En saga , The Swan of Tuonela and the Karelia Suite were issued in 1963 and reissued on CD in 1993. Sargent and
4464-627: The 1920s Sargent became one of the best-known English conductors. In London, he succeeded Boult as conductor of the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children from 1924 to 1939. In the provinces he conducted the British National Opera Company in The Mastersingers on tour in 1924 and 1925, winning praise from music critics around the country. In 1925 he conducted his first broadcast performance for
4588-550: The 2024 election, Stamford formed part of the Grantham and Stamford constituency. Previous MPs include Gareth Davies , who won the seat at the 2019 General Election and Nick Boles . Stamford, on the bank of the River Welland , forms a south-westerly protrusion of Lincolnshire between Rutland to the north and west, Peterborough to the south, and Northamptonshire to the south-west. There have been mistaken claims of
4712-544: The Albert Hall was by then long gone, Sargent, the Royal Choral Society and the Philharmonia made a stereo recording in 1962 of Hiawatha's Wedding Feast , which has been reissued on CD. In 1963, Sargent recorded Gay 's The Beggar's Opera , one of his few operas on record other than Gilbert and Sullivan. This was also reissued on CD. In addition to those choral pieces mentioned above, Sargent recorded Handel's Messiah four times, in 1946, 1954 1959 and 1964. Though
4836-785: The BBC recorded the first , second and fifth Symphonies in 1956 and 1958 respectively, reissued on CD in 1989, as well as Pohjola's Daughter in 1959. He also recorded the Valse triste with the RLPO. Sargent recorded a wide variety of other European composers, including Bach's Sinfonia from the Easter Oratorio , with Goossens and the RLPO; Chopin's Les Sylphides ballet suite (LPO); Grieg's Lyric Suite (National Symphony Orchestra); Haydn's Symphony No. 98 (LSO); Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody (Cyril Smith, RLPO) among others; and Wagner's "Prelude" from Das Rheingold and "Ride of
4960-485: The BBC who profoundly regretted Boult's departure." Briggs adds that Sargent was the target of criticism from the BBC's own Music Department for "not devoting enough time to the orchestra". The music journalist Norman Lebrecht goes so far as to say that Sargent "almost wrecked" the BBC orchestra. The orchestra objected to his "autocratic and prima-donna attitude towards orchestral players" and flatly refused to accede to his demand that they all stand up when he came on to
5084-542: The Bare Mountain , Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 and Lieutenant Kijé Suite , and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9 . With the Philharmonia, he recorded, among other things, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini , Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme and Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 , and Dvořák's Symphonic Variations . With the BBC, he also recorded Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 , Handel's Water Music , which he also recorded with
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5208-658: The Belmont transmitting station. Local publishers include Key Publishing (aviation) and the Bourne Publishing Group (pets). Old Glory , a specialist magazine for steam power and traction engines , was published in Stamford. Stamford was the first conservation area designated in England and Wales , under the Civic Amenities Act 1967. There are over 600 listed buildings in and around
5332-523: The British government. Stamford, Lincolnshire Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire , England. The population at the 2011 census was 19,701 and estimated at 20,645 in 2019. The town has 17th- and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed buildings and five medieval parish churches. It is a frequent film location. In 2013 it
5456-659: The Cello Concerto in 1954. He also recorded Elgar's Wand of Youth Suite No. 2 , with the BBC; the Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4 with the LSO; and the Enigma Variations with the Philharmonia. He made two recordings of Holst's The Planets : a monaural version with the LSO for Decca (1950) and a stereo version with the BBC for EMI (1960). He also recorded shorter Holst pieces: The Perfect Fool ballet music and
5580-732: The Dissolution by 1539. Street names are indicative of their presence: Priory Street, Austin Street, etc. Monasteries Friaries At least five orders of Friars were established within the town of Stamford from the 13th century onwards. Hospitals By the early 1500s the wool and broadcloth industry in England, on which Stamford depended, had declined significantly. Stamford was sufficiently poor, financially and demographically, that in 1548 it had to amalgamate its eleven parishes into six and its population had reduced to 800. However, by
5704-546: The Gilbert and Sullivan operas for EMI , with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and soloists from the world of oratorio and grand opera . These were Trial by Jury , Pinafore , Pirates , Patience , Iolanthe , The Mikado , Ruddigore , Yeomen and The Gondoliers . According to the Gilbert and Sullivan scholar Marc Shepherd, "The [Glyndebourne] recordings' musical excellence is undisputed, but many listeners object to Sargent's lugubrious tempi and
5828-497: The Guard (1928), The Pirates of Penzance (1929), Iolanthe (1930), H.M.S. Pinafore (1930), Patience (1930), Yeomen (excerpts 1931), Pirates (excerpts 1931), The Gondoliers (excerpts 1931), Ruddigore (1932) and Princess Ida (1932). More than 30 years later, for Decca, he recorded Yeomen (1964) and Princess Ida (1965) with the D'Oyly Carte company. In addition, between 1957 and 1963, Sargent recorded nine of
5952-532: The LSO what The Times described as "a performance of unflagging energy and amazing volume of tone under Dr. Malcolm Sargent", In October 1932 Sargent suffered a near-fatal attack of tuberculosis . For almost two years he was unable to work, and it was only later in the 1930s that he returned to the concert scene. In 1936 he conducted his first opera at Covent Garden , Gustave Charpentier 's Louise . He did not conduct opera there again until 1954, with Walton's Troilus and Cressida , although he did conduct
6076-656: The Orchestra , Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks , Walton's Viola Concerto and Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Pierre Fournier . In 1952 Sargent conducted in all the above-mentioned cities and also in Lima . Half his repertory on that tour consisted of British music and included Delius , Vaughan Williams, Britten, Walton and Handel. When the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was in danger of extinction after Beecham's death in 1961, Sargent played
6200-412: The Proms, he and two assistants conducted the two-month season between them. By the time he died, he was assisted by a large international roster of guest conductors. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Sargent turned down an offer of a musical directorship in Australia and returned to Britain to bring music to as many people as possible as his contribution to national morale. His fame extended beyond
6324-466: The Proms. Sargent made two tours of South America. In 1950 he conducted in Buenos Aires , Montevideo , Rio de Janeiro and Santiago . His programmes included Vaughan Williams's London and 6th Symphonies; Haydn 's Symphony No. 88 , Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 , Mozart 's Jupiter symphony , Schubert 's 5th , Brahms 's 2nd and 4th and Sibelius's 5th symphonies, Elgar's Serenade for Strings , Britten 's The Young Person's Guide to
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#17327915126506448-447: The Proms. In his first season in charge, Sargent and two assistant conductors conducted all the concerts among them; by 1966 there were Sargent and 25 other conductors. Those making their Prom debuts in the Sargent years included Carlo Maria Giulini , Georg Solti , Leopold Stokowski , Rudolf Kempe , Pierre Boulez and Bernard Haitink . Sargent was chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1957, succeeding Boult. He
6572-420: The RPO, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 , Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music , Humperdinck's overture to Hänsel und Gretel , and one of Britten's best known works, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946, RLPO; 1958, BBC). He also conducted Britten's Simple Symphony with the RPO. Sargent narrated and conducted Instruments of the Orchestra , an educational film produced by
6696-412: The Roman legion Legio IX Hispana across the river. The Anglo-Saxons later chose Stamford as the main town, being on a larger river than the Gwash. The place-name Stamford is first attested in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , where it appears as Steanford in 922 and Stanford in 942. It appears as Stanford in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means "stony ford". In 972 King Edgar made Stamford
6820-416: The Stamford area was redrawn. It now mostly follows the A1 to the railway line. The conjoined parish of Wothorpe is in the city of Peterborough. Barnack Road is the Lincolnshire/Peterborough boundary where it borders St Martin's Without . The river downstream of the town bridge and some of the meadows fall within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board . Much of Stamford
6944-452: The Valkyries" from Die Walküre . He also recorded Smetana's complete Má vlast cycle with the RPO in 1964. With the Royal Opera Orchestra he recorded, among other pieces, Gioachino Rossini 's William Tell and La Boutique Fantasque , Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante , and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony , Rosamunde and Overture Zauberharfe . With the LSO, he recorded Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on
7068-474: The advent of "authentic" period performance at first relegated Sargent's large scale and rescored versions to the shelf, they have been reissued and are now attracting favourable critical comment as being of historical interest in their own right. Sargent also conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Huddersfield Choral Society in recordings of Handel's Israel in Egypt and Mendelssohn's Elijah in 1947, both of which have been reissued on CD. Sargent
7192-406: The annual Gilbert and Sullivan productions there, together with the Duke of York and other members of the Royal Family. At the age of 24 Sargent became England's youngest Doctor of Music , with a degree from Durham. Sargent's break came when Sir Henry Wood visited the De Montfort Hall , Leicester, early in 1921 with the Queen's Hall orchestra. As it was his custom to commission a piece from
7316-459: The audience that they were safer inside the hall than fleeing outside, and resumed conducting. He later said that no orchestra had ever played so well and that no audience in his experience had ever listened so intently. In May 1941 he conducted the last performance heard in the Queen's Hall. Following an afternoon concert comprising the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius – praised by The Times as "performances of real distinction" –
7440-421: The charity. General: Malcolm Sargent Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes , the Huddersfield Choral Society , the Royal Choral Society , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , and
7564-475: The clockmaker Joseph Hinds, who worked in Stamford in the first half of the 19th century. In the summer months, Stamford Meadows attract visitors. The town has stores, supermarkets, three builders' merchants and several other specialist trade outlets and skilled trades such as roofers, builders, tilers etc. There are two car showrooms and a number of car-related businesses. Local services include convenience stores, post offices, newsagents and take-aways. South of
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#17327915126507688-400: The composer. Sargent was invited to conduct his Impression again in the 1923 season, but it was as a conductor that he made the greater impact. On the advice of Wood, among others, he soon abandoned composition in favour of conducting. He founded the amateur Leicester Symphony Orchestra in 1922, which he continued to conduct until 1939. Under Sargent, the orchestra's prestige grew until it
7812-475: The concert hall: to the British public, he was a familiar broadcaster in BBC radio discussion programmes, and generations of Gilbert and Sullivan devotees have known his recordings of the most popular Savoy Operas . He toured widely throughout the world and was noted for his skill as a conductor, his championship of British composers, and his debonair appearance, which won him the nickname "Flash Harry". Sargent's parents lived in Stamford, Lincolnshire , but he
7936-446: The concerts that opened the Royal Festival Hall in 1951 and returned to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for the summer 1951 Festival of Britain season at the Savoy Theatre and the winter 1961–62 and 1963–64 seasons at the Savoy. In August 1956 the BBC announced that he would be replaced as Chief Conductor of the BBC orchestra by Rudolf Schwarz . Sargent was given the title of "Chief Guest Conductor" and he remained Conductor-in-Chief of
8060-430: The crusade led a pogrom , in which several of the Stamford Jews were killed, and the rest, who escaped with difficulty, were given refuge in the castle. Their houses, however, were plundered, and a great quantity of money was seized. Stamford's importance and wealth in the Middle Ages meant that a number of religious houses and hospitals were established in or near the town. The monasteries and friaries were all closed at
8184-418: The early days of the London Philharmonic to Beecham's final months when they were planning joint concerts. They even happened to share the same birthday. When Sargent was incapacitated by tuberculosis in 1933, Beecham conducted a performance of Messiah at the Albert Hall to raise money to support his younger colleague. Sargent enjoyed Beecham's company, and took in good part his quips, such as his reference to
8308-501: The eighteenth century, Bach, Handel, Gluck , Mozart and Haydn; and from the nineteenth century, Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, Schumann , Mendelssohn , Brahms, Wagner , Tchaikovsky , Smetana , Sullivan and Dvořák. From the twentieth century, British composers in his repertoire included Bliss, Britten, Delius, Elgar (a favourite, especially Elgar's choral works The Dream of Gerontius , The Apostles and The Kingdom and symphonies), Holst, Tippett , Vaughan Williams and Walton. With
8432-418: The exception of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto , Sargent avoided the works of the Second Viennese School but programmed works by Bartók , Dohnányi , Hindemith , Honegger, Kodály, Martinů, Poulenc , Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich , Sibelius, Strauss, Stravinsky and Szymanowski. In 1923 Sargent married Eileen Laura Harding Horne (1898–1977). She was the younger daughter of Frederick William Horne –
8556-465: The famous "double-cropping" land of parts of the fens. Agriculture still provides a small, but steady number of jobs in farming, agricultural machinery, distribution and ancillary services. The Stamford Mercury claims to be "Britain's oldest continuously published newspaper title". The Mercury has been published since 1712 but its masthead formerly claimed it was established in 1695 and still has "Britain's Oldest Newspaper". Local radio provision
8680-425: The former Brazenose College, Stamford, where Oxford secessionists lived and studied, now form part of Stamford School. Stamford has been hosting an annual fair since the Middle Ages . It is mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 (Act 3, Scene 2). Held in mid-Lent, it is now the largest street fair in Lincolnshire and among the largest in the country. On 7 March 1190, men at the fair who were preparing to go on
8804-493: The hall was destroyed during an overnight incendiary raid. In 1945 Arturo Toscanini invited Sargent to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra . In four concerts Sargent chose to present all English music, with the exception of Sibelius 's Symphony No. 1 and Dvořák 's Symphony No. 7 . Two concertos, Walton's Viola Concerto with William Primrose , and Elgar's Violin Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin , were programmed as part of these concerts. Menuhin judged Sargent's conducting of
8928-623: The image-conscious young conductor Herbert von Karajan as "a kind of musical Malcolm Sargent" and, on learning that Sargent's car was caught in rifle fire in Palestine, "I had no idea the Arabs were so musical." Beecham declared that Sargent "is the greatest choirmaster we have ever produced ... he makes the buggers sing like blazes". And on another occasion he said that Sargent was "the most expert of all our conductors – myself excepted of course". In addition to his own doctorate from Durham, Sargent
9052-549: The impact of cancer and its treatment, life after treatment and, in some cases, bereavement. The charity also undertakes research into the impact of cancer on children and young people. It uses this evidence to raise awareness and to seek to influence government and policy-makers, and those who provide public services across the UK. CLIC Sargent was formed in 2005 after a successful merger between Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood (CLIC) and Sargent Cancer Care for Children. Sargent
9176-798: The incidental music for a dramatisation of The Pilgrim's Progress given at the Royal Opera House in 1948. Although Sargent was popular with choral singers, his relations with orchestras were sometimes strained. After giving a Daily Telegraph interview in 1936 in which he said that an orchestral musician did not deserve a "job for life" and should "give of his lifeblood with every bar he plays," Sargent lost much favour with orchestral musicians. They were particularly aggrieved because of their support of him during his long illness, and thereafter he faced frequent hostility from British orchestras. Being popular in Australia with players as well as
9300-462: The last detail" but sometimes "unexuberant", though his performances of "the music composed within his lifetime... remained lucid and continually compelling". The flute player Gerald Jackson wrote, "I feel that [Walton] conducts his own music as well as anyone else, with the possible exception of Sargent, who of course introduced and always makes a big thing of Belshazzar's Feast ." The composers whose works Sargent regularly conducted included, from
9424-561: The later 17th century roads start to be used more for longer distance travelling. In 1663 an Act of Parliament was passed to set up turnpikes on the Great North Road, and this was to make a notable difference to Stamford's fortunes in the following century. During the English Civil War local loyalties were split. Thomas Hatcher MP was a Parliamentarian. Royalists used Wothorpe and Burghley as defensive positions. In
9548-400: The latter "the next best to Elgar in this work". Sargent was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1947 Birthday Honours for services to music. He performed in numerous English-speaking countries during the post-war years and continued to promote British composers, conducting the premieres of Walton's opera, Troilus and Cressida (1954), and Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 9 (1958). Sargent
9672-519: The lay public... a fluent, attractive pianist, a brilliant score-reader, a skilful and effective arranger and orchestrator... as a conductor his stick technique was regarded by many as the most accomplished and reliable in the world.... [H]is taste... was moulded by the Victorian cathedral tradition into which he was born." It commented that, in his later years, his interpretations of the standard classical and romantic repertoire were "prepared... down to
9796-499: The meadow beneath his castle. Some butchers came to part the combatants and one bull ran into the town. The earl mounted his horse and rode after the animal; he enjoyed the sport so much that he gave the meadow where the fight began to the butchers of Stamford, on condition that they continue to provide a bull to be run in the town every 13 November. The East Coast Main Line would have gone through Stamford, as an important postal town at
9920-790: The most recordings (several dozen major pieces) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC), the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), the New Symphony Orchestra of London, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). Sargent conducted Gilbert and Sullivan recordings in four different decades. His early recordings with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for HMV included The Yeomen of
10044-561: The orchestra performed there were ovations, laurel wreaths and terrific reviews." The orchestra's reputation both in Britain and internationally grew during Sargent's tenure. Briggs records that conductor had "great moments of triumph ... both at festivals overseas and during the Proms". In the 1950s and 1960s he made many recordings with the BBC Symphony, as well as other ensembles, as described below. In this period, also, he conducted
10168-404: The pianist wants of the music even before he begins to play it.... He has an incredible speed of mind, and it has always been a great joy, as well as a rare professional experience, to work with him." For this reason, among others, Sargent was continually in demand as a conductor for concertos. The Times obituary said Sargent "was of all British conductors in his day the most widely esteemed by
10292-532: The platform. He rapidly became equally unpopular with the BBC music department, ignoring its agenda and pursuing his own. A senior BBC manager wrote: It did not help that Sargent was universally acknowledged to be at his finest in choral music. His reputation in big works for chorus and orchestra such as The Dream of Gerontius , Hiawatha and Belshazzar's Feast was unrivalled, and his large-scale performances of Handel oratorios were assured packed houses. But his regular programming of such works did nothing to lift
10416-710: The premieres of At the Boar's Head (1925) by Holst; Hugh the Drover (1924); Sir John in Love (1929) by Vaughan Williams; and Walton's cantata Belshazzar's Feast (at the Leeds Triennial Festival of 1931). The chorus for the last of these found Walton's music difficult, but Sargent engaged them with it, telling them they were helping to make musical history, and reminding them that Berlioz's Requiem and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius had been considered impossible at first. He drew from them and
10540-483: The principal violist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra wrote of him, "He is able to instil into the singers a life and efficiency they never dreamed of. You have only to see the eyes of a choral society screwing into him like hundreds of gimlets to understand what he means to them." Boult thought him "a great all-rounder", but added, "he never developed his potentialities, which were enormous, simply because he didn't think hard enough about music – he never troubled to improve on
10664-786: The public, Sargent made three lengthy tours of Australia and New Zealand, beginning in 1936. He was on the point of accepting a permanent appointment with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation when, at the outbreak of the Second World War, he felt it his duty to return to his country, resisting strong pressure from the Australian media for him to stay. During the war, Sargent directed the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester (1939–1942) and
10788-522: The public. In addition to the core repertory, Sargent introduced new works by Bliss , Honegger , Kodály , Martinů , Prokofiev , Szymanowski and Walton , among others. At first, the London Symphony Orchestra was engaged for these concerts, but the orchestra, a self-governing co-operative, refused to replace key players whom Sargent considered sub-standard. As a result, in conjunction with Beecham, Sargent set about establishing
10912-634: The same month as Sargent's. Of Vaughan Williams's shorter pieces, Sargent recorded, with the BBC in 1960, the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (which he also recorded with the Philharmonia), and with the LSO, Serenade to Music (1957; choral version) and Toward the Unknown Region . He recorded Vaughan Williams's overture The Wasps with the LSO. Although the heyday of live performances of Sargent's Coleridge-Taylor signature piece at
11036-416: The second half of the 17th century, after almost 150 years of stagnation, the population started to increase. As Stamford emerged into the 17th century, leather and fibre working (in the widest sense; weavers, ropers and tailors) were the main activities along with wood and stone working. In the 1660s the various efforts to make the River Welland navigable again were finally successful. Stamford then became
11160-450: The service conducted by the bride's uncle, who, as her grandfather had been, was rector there. By 1926, the couple had two children, a daughter, Pamela, who died of polio in 1944, and a son Peter. Sargent was much affected by his daughter's death, and his recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius in 1945 was an expression of his grief. The marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce in 1946. Before, during and after his marriage, Sargent
11284-757: The singers' lack of feeling for the G&;S idiom." Sargent used an orchestra of thirty-seven players at the Savoy Theatre (the same number as Sullivan), but sometimes added a few more when recording. During the Second World War, Sargent and the Liverpool Philharmonic accompanied Albert Sammons , the dedicatee, in his 1944 recording of the Delius Violin Concerto. Later, in 1965, with Jacqueline du Pré , in her début recording, Sargent recorded Delius's Cello Concerto, coupled with
11408-536: The sinister side chequy Or and Azure . The three lions are the English royal arms , granted to the town by Edward IV for its part in the "Lincolnshire Uprising". The blue and gold chequers are the arms of the De Warenne family , which held the manor here in the 13th century. Stamford belongs to the parliamentary constituency of Rutland and Stamford . The current MP is Alicia Kearns ( Conservative ). Prior to
11532-503: The spirits of the BBC SO: orchestral musicians regarded playing the instrumental accompaniment for large choirs as drudgery. Although there were complaints within the BBC, there was praise from outside it for Sargent's work with the orchestra. His biographer Reid wrote, "Sargent's liveliness and drive soon gave BBC playing a gloss and briskness which had not been conspicuous before". Another biographer, Aldous, wrote, "Everywhere Sargent and
11656-556: The summer of 1643 the Royalists were besieged at Burghley on 24 July after a defeat at Peterborough on 19 July. The army of Viscount Campden was heavily outnumbered and surrendered the following day. For over 600 years Stamford was the site of the Stamford bull run , held annually on 13 November, St Brice 's day, until 1839. Local tradition says it began after William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey had seen two bulls fighting in
11780-509: The time, but resistance led to routing it instead through Peterborough , whose importance and size increased at Stamford's expense. During the Second World War, the area round Stamford contained several military sites, including RAF station, airborne encampments and a prisoner-of-war camp . Within the town, Rock House held the headquarters of Stanisław Sosabowski and the staff of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade . A memorial plaque
11904-502: The town and Spalding , which provides the NOW Peterborough 12D multiplex (BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Heart East). Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central . Stamford has a lower-power television relay transmitter, due to it being in a valley, which takes its transmission from Waltham , not Belmont . BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire can be received from
12028-568: The town is RAF Wittering , a main employer which was until 2011 the home of the Harrier . The base opened in 1916 as RFC Stamford. It closed in 1919, but reopened in 1924 under its present name. The engineering company, largely closed since June 2018, is Cummins Generator Technologies (formerly Newage Lyon, then Newage International), a maker of electrical generators in Barnack Road. C & G Concrete (now part of Breedon Aggregates)
12152-647: The town. Significant unlisted properties include the Corn Exchange in Broad Street which was completed in 1859. The Industrial Revolution left Stamford largely untouched. Much of the centre was built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Jacobean or Georgian style. It is marked by streets of timber-framed and stone buildings using local limestone and by little shops tucked down back alleys. Several former coaching inns survive, their large doorways being
12276-527: The university, left Oxford to found a rival college at Stamford . Oxford and Cambridge universities petitioned Edward III , and the King ordered the closure of the college and the return of the students to Oxford. MA students at Oxford were obliged to take an oath: "You shall also swear that you will not read lectures, or hear them read, at Stamford, as in a University study, or college general." This remained in force until 1827. The site and limited remains of
12400-502: The upper tier authority. Local government was reformed again in 1974, when Kesteven County Council was replaced by Lincolnshire County Council, and the borough of Stamford was abolished, with district-level functions passing to the new South Kesteven District Council. Stamford Town Council was established as a successor parish council in 1974, covering the area of the former borough. Stamford's town council has arms: Per pale dexter side Gules three Lions passant guardant in pale Or and
12524-412: The war and that they used it in no spirit of adulation". It may have arisen from his impeccable and stylish appearance – he always wore a red or white carnation in his buttonhole (the carnation is now the symbol of the school named for him). This was perhaps reinforced by his brisk tempi early in his career, and by a story about his racing from one recording session to another. Another explanation, that he
12648-483: The work at the Proms – the annual season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts – in the Queen's Hall on 11 October of the same year. Sargent as composer attracted favourable notice in a Prom season when other composer-conductors included Gustav Holst with his Planets suite, and the next year Wood included Sargent's " Nocturne and Scherzo " in the Proms programme, also conducted by
12772-476: The writer praised the crispness of the ensemble, the "musicalness" of the performance and the beauty of the overture. Rupert D'Oyly Carte wrote to the paper stating that Sargent had worked from Arthur Sullivan 's manuscript scores and had merely brought out the "details of the orchestration" exactly as Sullivan had written them. Some of the principal cast members objected to Sargent's fast tempi, at least at first. The D'Oyly Carte seasons brought Sargent's name to
12896-607: Was articled to Haydn Keeton , organist of Peterborough Cathedral , and was one of the last musicians to be trained in that traditional way. At the age of 16 he gained his diploma as Associate of the Royal College of Organists , and at 18 he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music by the University of Durham . Sargent worked first as an organist at St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire, from 1914 to 1924, except for eight months in 1918 when he served as
13020-413: Was a continual womaniser, which he did not deny. Among his reported affairs were long-standing ones with Diana Bowes-Lyon , Princess Marina and Edwina Mountbatten . Less savoury encounters are alluded to by the young woman who said, "Promise me that whatever happens I shan't have to go home alone in a taxi with Malcolm Sargent." Away from music, Sargent was elected a member of The Literary Society ,
13144-404: Was a dominant figure at the Proms in the post-war era. He was chief conductor of the Proms from 1947 until his death in 1967, taking part in 514 concerts. A 1947 Prom under his baton was the first concert to be televised in Britain. As conductor of the Proms, Sargent gained his widest fame, making the "Last Night" of each season into a high-ratings broadcast celebration aimed at ordinary audiences,
13268-438: Was able to obtain such top-flight soloists as Alfred Cortot , Artur Schnabel , Solomon , Guilhermina Suggia and Benno Moiseiwitsch . Moiseiwitsch gave Sargent piano lessons without charge, judging him talented enough to make a successful career as a concert pianist, but Sargent chose a conducting career. At the instigation of Wood and Adrian Boult he became a lecturer at the Royal College of Music in London in 1923. In
13392-544: Was appointed conductor of the Royal Choral Society ; he retained this post for four decades until his death. The society was famous in the 1920s and 1930s for staged performances of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 's Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall , a work with which Sargent's name soon became synonymous. Elizabeth Courtauld, wife of the industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld , promoted
13516-999: Was awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool and by the Royal Academy of Music , the Royal College of Organists, the Royal College of Music and the Swedish Academy of Music. He was awarded the highest honour of the Royal Philharmonic Society , its Gold Medal, in 1959. Foreign honours included the Order of the Polar Star (Sweden), 1956; the Order of the White Rose (Finland), 1965; and Chevalier of France's Légion d'honneur , 1967. After his death Sargent
13640-596: Was born in Ashford , in Kent while his mother was staying with a family friend. He was the elder child and only son of Henry Edward Sargent (1863–1936) and his wife Agnes, née Hall (1860–1942). Henry Sargent was chief clerk at a Stamford coal merchant, an amateur musician and local church organist; before their marriage his wife had been the matron of the Stamford High School for Girls . The young Sargent won
13764-409: Was built about 1075 and apparently demolished in 1484. The site stood derelict until the late 20th century, when it was built over and now includes a bus station and a modern housing development. A small part of the curtain wall survives at the junction of Castle Dyke and Bath Row. In 1333–1334, a group of students and tutors from Merton College and Brasenose Hall , dissatisfied with conditions at
13888-650: Was comforted on his deathbed by visits from the Anglican Archbishop of York , Donald Coggan and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster , Cardinal Heenan . He also received telephone calls from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles , and had a reconciliation with his son, Peter, from whom he had been estranged. A number of purported explanations have been advanced for Sargent's nickname, "Flash Harry". Reid opines that it "was first in circulation among orchestral players before
14012-543: Was commemorated in a variety of ways. His memorial service in Westminster Abbey in October 1967 was attended by 3,000 people including the royalty of three countries, official representatives from France, South Africa, and Malaysia, and notables as diverse as Princess Marina of Kent; Bridget D'Oyly Carte ; Pierre Boulez; Larry Adler ; Elgar's daughter; Beecham's widow; Douglas Fairbanks Junior ; Léon Goossens ;
14136-1143: Was continually in demand as a conductor for concertos. In addition to the concertos noted above, other composers whose concertos he conducted on record, with soloists noted, include: Bach (Heifetz-Friedman, NSO), Bartók ( Rostal , LSO), Beethoven ( Oistrakh , Knushevitzky, Oborin, Philharmonia), Bliss (Trevor Barnard, Philharmonia), Bruch (Heifetz, LSO and NSO), Cimarosa ( Léon Goossens , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic), Dvořák (Tortelier), Mendelssohn ( Gioconda de Vito , LSO), Mozart (Heifetz, LSO), Rachmaninoff ( Lympany , RPO), Rawsthorne ( Curzon ; Matthews , LSO), Rubbra (Matthews, LSO), Schumann (Pierre Fournier), Tchaikovsky ( Ricci , NSO) and Vieuxtemps (Heifetz, NSO). Other soloists included Mstislav Rostropovich and Cyril Smith. Neville Cardus said of Sargent's Beethoven, "I have heard performances which critics would have raved about had some conductor from Russia been responsible for them conducting them half as well and truthfully." Sargent recorded Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies for Decca with Sidney Beer's National Symphony Orchestra. His 1940s accompaniments for Artur Schnabel in
14260-784: Was found in the Williamson Cliffe Quarry, close to Great Casterton in adjacent Rutland . Some 15 metres (49 ft) long, it is about 170 million years old, from the Aalenian or Bajocian era of the Jurassic period. It is one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in the UK and was installed in 1975 in the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery . Tourism is important to Stamford's economy, as are professional law and accountancy firms. Health, education and other public-service employers also feature, notably
14384-486: Was named after Ronald Searle 's St Trinian's character " Flash Harry ", is certainly wrong: Sargent's nickname was current long before the first appearance of the St Trinian's character in 1954. Sargent's devoted fans, the Promenaders, used the nickname in an approving sense, and shortened it to "Flash", though Sargent was not especially fond of the sobriquet, even thus modified. Beecham and Sargent were allies from
14508-516: Was not the BBC's first choice, but John Barbirolli and Rafael Kubelik turned the post down, and it went to Sargent, despite reservations about his commitment. Unlike Boult he refused to join the staff of the BBC and remained a freelance, accepting other engagements as he pleased. The historian of the BBC Asa Briggs has written, "Sargent sometimes ruffled the orchestra in a way that Boult had never done. Indeed there were many people inside
14632-460: Was rated a top place to live in a survey by The Sunday Times . Its name has been passed on to Stamford, Connecticut , founded in 1641. The Romans built Ermine Street across what is now Burghley Park and forded the River Welland to the west of Stamford, eventually reaching Lincoln . They also built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash . In 61 CE Boudica followed
14756-469: Was reformed to become a municipal borough , at which point the municipal boundaries were adjusted to match the recently enlarged constituency. After 1836 the borough therefore straddled Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. When elected county councils were established in 1889 boroughs were no longer allowed to straddle county boundaries, and so the parts of the borough south of the river were transferred to Lincolnshire, with Kesteven County Council serving as
14880-681: Was set up in 1967 in memory of conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent who died of cancer. The charity began operating under a new name - "Young Lives vs Cancer" - in May 2021, the tagline already in use by the charity. Young Lives vs Cancer's chief executive is Rachel Kirby-Rider, who took over from Kate Lee in March 2020. Rachel Kirby-Rider had previously worked for the organisation as the Director of Income and Engagement for 5 years before being appointed. Young Lives vs Cancer's main fundraising and awareness event
15004-512: Was shared between Peterborough's Heart East (102.7 – Heart Peterborough closed in July 2010) and Greatest Hits Radio Midlands (formerly Rutland Radio ) (a 97.4 transmitter on Little Casterton Road) from Oakham . Since March 2021, Rutland and Stamford Sound has been providing a locally based service via the internet. Other stations include BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (95.7 from Peterborough ), and BBC Radio Lincolnshire (94.9). NOW Digital broadcasts from an East Casterton transmitter covering
15128-483: Was the first conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic as a full-time ensemble, and played an important part in saving the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from disbandment in the 1960s. As chief conductor of London's internationally famous summer music festival the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ("the Proms") from 1947 to 1967, Sargent was one of the best-known English conductors. When he took over
15252-653: Was unveiled there in 2004. A 2,000lb bomb was dropped on St Leonard St on 31 October 1940, which never exploded. 1,000 people were evacuated, until 3 November 1940. Stamford Museum occupied a Victorian building in Broad Street from 1980 until June 2011, when it succumbed to Lincolnshire County Council budget cuts. Some exhibits have been moved to a "Discover Stamford" space at the town library and to Stamford Town Hall . There are three tiers of local government covering Stamford, at parish (town), district and county level: Stamford Town Council, South Kesteven District Council , and Lincolnshire County Council . The town council
15376-518: Was well known in Venice." Stamford was a walled town, but only a small portion of the wall remains. Stamford became an inland port on the Great North Road , the latter superseding Ermine Street in importance. Notable buildings in the town include the medieval Browne's Hospital , several churches and the buildings of Stamford School , a public school founded in 1532. A Norman castle
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