Person DS/UK/468 Foss; Hubert (1899-1953); Editor, pianist, composer, printer, critic and broadcaster Foss Hubert 1899-1953 Editor, pianist, composer, printer, critic and broadcaster Male Born Croydon 1899

Born in Croydon on 2 May 1899. Employed by Humphrey Milford at the London Office of the Oxford University Press as a sales representative in education in 1921, he went on to build up the new Music department at Amen House as the first Musical Editor, 1923-1941. He also worked [during the 1920s and 1930s] as Typographic Adviser for Henderson and Spalding, a printing company in Camberwell run by Double Crown Club member, 1925-1955, Harold Vesey Strong and based at the Sylvan Press, Sylvan Grove and later at Shaftesbury Avenue. After his resignation from the Oxford University Press in 1941, he went on to act in a number of freelance roles relating to the criticism of music. His publications include 'Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M., a Study' (1950) and a number of articles about the printing of music. He was also known for editing the writings of Donald Francis Tovey. Foss was a founding member of the Double Crown Club, which originated with his friend Oliver Simon. The club was created to faciliate the exchange of ideas on 'good printing'. It held four to six dinners a year and considered only those with certain achievements in printing for election to membership. A designer was appointed for each dinner who would create a printed menu to be dissucssed at the meal and internal and external speakers often attended to talk on printing related subjects. Originally, it was intended that two books would be 'crowned' by the club each year as the best current examples of literary and typographical merit, but this process proved to subjective and was abandoned in 1927. Foss was the first Honorary Secretary of the Club, 1924-1925, sat on the committee twice, 1924-1926; 1933-1937, and served as its president in 1936. He remained an active member of the club until his death in London on 27 May 1953. 'The Double Crown Club: A history of fifty years', James Moran (Westerham Press, 1974) and 'Rules and Roll of Members of the Double Crown Club: Eighteenth Edition' (privately printed at the John Roberts Press, London, 1969), both of which are included in the Pickering Collection and 'Hubert Foss', Wikipedia article at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_J._Foss> accessed May 2011. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes ual 14/12/2020 ual 14/12/2020 10c59fbf-81fc-4f8d-99ae-7b611bdfa097