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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICK WESCHE. 



Born 1857; died 1910. 



It is with great regret we have to record the death of Mr. Wesche, 

 which took place on September 26 th after some months of illne?s. 

 Mr. Wesche was born in 1857, at Colombo, Ceylon. At an early 

 age he came to England and studied the pianoforte under Mr. 

 Oscar Beringer, and composition under the late Berthold Tours 

 and Dr. F. H. Cowen. He taught harmony at the Oscar Beringer 

 School for the Higher Development of Pianoforte-playing, and 

 the pianoforte at the Royal Normal College for the Blind. In 

 addition, Mr. Wesche had held organ appointments at St. Thomas's, 

 Westbourne Grove, and St. Stephen's, South Ham^Dstead. As a 

 composer he had achieved recognition in the musical world, and 

 of his works mention may be made of the " Legend of Excalibur," 

 which was played at tlie Crystal Palace, an orchestral suite 

 which gained the prize offered by the Westminster Orchestral 

 Society. His overture in A. minor, "A Lost Cause: Scotland, 

 1745," gained one of the prizes offered by the Musicians' Com- 

 pany in their competition for wind instrumental music. He was 

 an Associate of the Philharmonic Society. 



When free from professional duties he devoted his time to 

 scientific research, paying particular attention to the anatomy 

 of the Diptera, on which subject he became an authority. Mr. 

 Wesche joined the Q.M.C. in 1901, and was elected a Fellow of 

 the R.M.S. in the same year: at the time of his death he was 

 serving on the Council of the R.M.S. and the Committee of the 

 Q.M.C. He contributed a number of papers to the Journals of 

 both societies twelve in all to the Journal Q.M.C. He also 



