Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

Try this:

An E to link:

(1) a shopkeeper and early Quaker who renounced his earlier profession of music;
(2) Henry IV, Part I;
(3) a Restoration Macbeth.

[subcontrabass]

well done SCB

don't know how you got Spohr ..............
or Hoddinott for that matter

Hoddinott came via Arthur Benjamin.

Spohr came after the 'double' clue (although it took a bit of searching to find a website mentioning homeopathy in connection with his father).

[Nick Armstrong]

Try this:

An E to link:

(1) a shopkeeper and early Quaker who renounced his earlier profession of music;
(2) Henry IV, Part I;
(3) a Restoration Macbeth.

Had a good crack at this on and off this evening, but come up with absolutely nothing EvEn rEmotEly rElEvant...

More on the morrow...

[mercia]

(3) a Restoration Macbeth.

William Davenant's ??

[Nick Armstrong]

William Davenant's ??

Yes, I found him too... couldn't get him to lead me anywhere though

Good idea to ask!!!

[mercia]

can't find an E in Henry IVi apart from Edmund (Mortimer) EDIT and Eastcheap

are we thinking of musical connections to Henry IV - Falstaff, Merry Wives etc. ?

I assume "early Quaker" means 17th Century so discounts the likes of Dibdin, Eccles and Billings, not that they renounced music or were shopkeepers either

perhaps subc. could say if this Quaker was a composer

[Nick Armstrong]

can't find an E in Henry IVi apart from Edmund (Mortimer) EDIT and Eastcheap

are we thinking of musical connections to Henry IV - Falstaff, Merry Wives etc. ?

I assume "early Quaker" means 17th Century so discounts the likes of Dibdin, Eccles and Billings, not that they renounced music or were shopkeepers either

perhaps subc. could say if this Quaker was a composer

Very similar thoughts, mercia... and a very similar dead end

[subcontrabass]

William Davenant's ??

Who provided the music for the additional witches' scenes?

[subcontrabass]

I assume "early Quaker" means 17th Century so discounts the likes of Dibdin, Eccles and Billings, not that they renounced music or were shopkeepers either

Investigate further.

[mercia]

Who provided the music for the additional witches' scenes?

erm ................... Matthew Locke??

[subcontrabass]

erm ................... Matthew Locke??

You are looking for an 'E'.

[mercia]

erm ................... Matthew Locke??

and / or John Eccles, Godfrey Finger, Daniel Purcell

[mercia]

let's stick with John Eccles because I think Solomon Eccles might be our Quaker ("burned all his books and compositions")

I think I passed over Solomon earlier because I couldn't see a shopkeeper reference.

I can't find an Eccles - Henry IV part 1 connection

[subcontrabass]

let's stick with John Eccles because I think Solomon Eccles might be our Quaker ("burned all his books and compositions")

I think I passed over Solomon earlier because I couldn't see a shopkeeper reference.

I can't find an Eccles - Henry IV part 1 connection

Two down. The third is possibly the nephew of the older and uncle of the younger of the two you have identified.

[mercia]

not sure. some websites are giving Henry Eccles as son of Solomon and brother of John but not telling me of any Shakespeare connection.