Born: Jan­u­a­ry 3, 1830, Old Mach­ar Parish, Ab­er­deen, Scot­land.

Died: Ju­ly 11, 1895, Taun­ton, Som­er­set, Eng­land.

Buried: Trull, De­von (near Taun­ton), Eng­land.

Ewing stu­died law at Mar­is­chal Coll­ege in Aber­deen. In 1855, he joined the ar­my, ris­ing to the rank of lieu­ten­ant col­o­nel, and re­ceiv­ing a me­dal for the cam­paign in Chi­na in 1869. His true love was mu­sic, though, which he stu­died in Hei­del­berg, Ger­ma­ny. A mem­ber of the Har­mon­ic Choir in Aber­deen, he brought his new­ly writ­ten tune “Ewing” to prac­tice one night, and that choir was the first to ev­er sing it.

Sources

Music

1. Ewing