Sir William Henry Hadow (1859–1937) was an English music scholar, educationalist, and author. He was born on 27 December 1859 in Ebrington, Gloucestershire, and died on 8 April 1937 in Buxted, Sussex. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read classics and mathematics and later became a Fellow. Hadow held a series of academic and administrative posts, including Principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle, then part of Durham University, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1919 to 1930. He was knighted in 1918 for services to education. In the 1920s and 1930s he chaired several influential British government education committees on the reorganization of schooling, and these Hadow Reports shaped the primary and secondary school divide in England. As a musical scholar he is best known for Studies in Modern Music (two volumes, 1892–95), covering composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, Brahms, and Dvořák. He edited The Oxford History of Music, contributing volumes and overseeing the series, and also wrote on Haydn, on Croatian folk-song influences in Haydn's music, and on English music generally, in English Music (1931). He wrote essays on literature and criticism as well as music, in the manner of the generalist man of letters typical of the late-Victorian and Edwardian Oxford don, and is cited today either as a music historian and critic or in connection with the education reports that bear his name.
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