ABSTRACT
Herbert Walters guaranteed Coleridge-Taylor’s fees at the Royal College of Music. Victorian Britain saw many acts of patronage with rich individuals including Tate and Carnegie paying for libraries; George Peabody funding low-rental homes; and Boot in Nottingham and Wills in Bristol financing university buildings. Walters, a businessman and a colonel in the volunteers was an undemonstrative patron. A generation later such men became stalwarts in the Scout movement.
