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Harold Fraser-Simson
Harold Fraser-Simson (15 August 1872 – 19 January 1944), was an English composer of light music, including songs and the scores to musical comedies. His most famous musical was the World War I hit, ''The Maid of the Mountains'', and he later set numerous children's poems to music, especially those of A. A. Milne.
== Life and career ==
Fraser-Simson〔“Fraser” was his middle name; he used the hyphenated "Fraser-Simson" for his musical career, but formally he seems to have retained his original surname "Simson". See census return, 1911 (at Woodend, Witley, Surrey), Harold Fraser Simson (no hyphen), Ship-owner & merchant. It lists May Frances Simson (no Fraser), wife and Lilian Frances Simson (no Fraser), daughter; Marriage register index, July–September 1919, St Martin, vol. 1a, p. 1553, Harold F Fraser and Anna C M Devenish; and Register of deaths, county of Inverness, 19 January 1944, ref 098/0a 0041; but see Probate at Llandudno, June 1944, to Cecily Fraser-Simson and John Henry Lang Rose of the estate of Harold Fraser-Simson of Dalcross Castle Croy Inverness-shire〕 was born in London, the second child and eldest son of an East Indies merchant, Arthur Theodore Simson and his wife, Jane Anne Catherine née Fraser, of Reelig, Scotland.〔Lamb, Andrew. ("Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944); ''The Maid of the Mountains''" ), excerpts from the sleeve notes to Hyperion's recording of ''The Maid of the Mountains'', 2000, accessed 17 June 2013〕 He was educated at Charterhouse School, then at Dulwich College,〔Darby, W., (1967), ''Dulwich: A Place in History'', p.41, (William Darby: Dulwich)〕 then at King's College London and in France. As a young man he joined a ship-owning firm in London before turning to music as a full-time occupation in his early forties.〔''The Times'' obituary, 20 January 1944, p. 7〕
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