"Do not forget me quite" - Ivor Gurney

            Ivor Gurney (August 28, 1890 - December 26, 1937) was an English composer and poet.

Born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester in 1890, Gurney sang as a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, from 1900 to 1906 when he became an articled pupil of Dr Herbert Brewer at the cathedral. During this time he met two important friends, composer Herbert Howells, also a pupil of Brewer, and the future poet F. W. Harvey.

Gurney's studies were interrupted by World War I where he was wounded in April 1917 and gassed in September the same year. But his poetic gift also revealed itself at this time, resulting in two volumes of poetry, Severn and Somme (1917) and War's Embers (1919). 

Do not forget me quite
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The Wanderer - Ivor Gurney

He spent the last 15 years of his life in mental hospitals, first for a short period at Barnwood House in Gloucester, and then at the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford.

Gurney died of tuberculosis in the City of London Mental Hospital on 26 December 1937 at the age of 47. He was buried in Twigworth.

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