Born: Jan­u­a­ry 11, 1839, Lon­don, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Died: May 29, 1924.

Son of Li­ver­pool so­li­ci­tor H. Heathcote Statham and brother of Fran­cis Stat­ham, Heath­cote was ed­u­cat­ed at the Li­ver­pool Col­le­gi­ate In­sti­tu­tion un­der Dr. How­son, then ar­ti­cled to an ar­chi­tect in Li­ver­pool, where he sub­se­quent­ly prac­ticed for a time. Around age 30, he moved to Lon­don. In 1883, he be­came ed­it­or of The Build­er, a post he held for a quar­ter cen­tu­ry. He was an am­a­teur mu­si­cian, and gave class­ic­al or­gan re­cit­als at the Al­bert Hall on Sun­day af­ternoons dur­ing the Lon­don sea­son. He al­so wrote on mu­sic, and for ma­ny years was mu­sic cr­itic for the Ed­in­burgh Re­view. He con­trib­ut­ed to Grove’s Dic­tion­a­ry of Mu­sic, and wrote ma­ny es­says on ar­tis­tic, mu­sic­al, and lit­er­a­ry sub­jects, es­pe­cial­ly in the Ed­in­burgh Re­view, the Fort­night­ly Re­view and the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry. Ma­ny of his pa­pers were read be­fore the In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects and the Ar­chi­tect­ur­al As­so­ci­a­tion. He was a mem­ber of the Ar­chi­tect­ur­al As­so­ci­a­tion, the Mu­sical Associa­tion, and Fel­low of the Roy­al Phil­har­mon­ic So­ci­e­ty. His works in­clude:

• Architecture for General Readers
• Modern Architecture
• Architecture Among the Poets
• My Thoughts on Mu­sic and Mu­sicians
• Form and Design in Mu­sic
• Winged Words (pub­lished anonymously), 1907
• The Organ and Its Place in Mu­sical Art, 1909
• Design for Remodeling the front of the Na­tional gallery and laying out Trafalgar Square, 1912
• History of Architecture, 1912
• What is Mu­sic? A short analysis for the general reader, 1913

Sources

Music

1. St. Joseph