The Makers of British Music : Famous Living British Composers of the Old School and the New - Top row LtoR Granville Bantock , Josef Holbrooke , Coleridge Taylor , Percy Pitt , Cyril Scott , Hamilton Harty Middle Row LtoR George Clement Martin , Miss Ethel Smythe , Ebenezer Prout , Dr Henry Walford Davies , Dr William Hayman Cummings , Front Row LtoR Sir Walter Parratt , Sir Charles Villiers Stanford , Sir Edward Elgar , Dr Frederic Hymen Cowen , Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie Sir Herbert Hastings Parry , Sir Frederick Bridge . 24 October 1908