ABSTRACT
The gentle slope of Bandon Hill cemetery beyond the war memorial has the appearance of a stunted forest of stone angels, slabs and crosses as you approach the grave of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Its musical notation and poetry is ornate by the standards of neighbouring graves. The next row has a simpler memorial commemorating Emma and Walter Walmisley and their third daughter Louisa. The graves are linked as Louisa’s sister Jessie was the wife of Coleridge-Taylor. In tracing the early life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor it has been necessary to find other hidden connections.
