Basil Charles Allchin

Career Academic / Musician

Biography Organist and music teacher and administrator. Basil Allchin was the Assistant Organist at Christ Church, Oxford and Organist at Hertford College, Oxford also. He also taught music at Exeter College, Oxford around the early 1920s. Between 1935-1939 he was the Registrar of the Royal College of Music. He wrote a music book for pianoforte [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/11/2006]

Biography References http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67087.html / http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=6135&inst_id=25 / http://www.alchin info/volume3/52_volume3_part5_other_alchin_families_descendants_francis_catherine_london.html1.1.1.1 » Charles Alfred Howell Alchin / http://www.alchin.info/parish_registers_bdm/alchin_bdm_england_b_to_c.html

County London [Greater] / Gloucestershire / Oxfordshire / Yorkshire / Warwickshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1946

Dates active 1878-?

Donated around 1946

Owned 1946

English collections Tokens and memorial medallions

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford Unknown

English collection size 15

Connections Gwladys Marguerite Allchin / John Alexander Barry / John Bishop & Co. / Champion