Son of a mason, Sum­mers was a chor­ist­er at Wells Ca­thed­ral, and stu­died un­der Hen­ry Gaunt­lett and Will­iam Stern­dale Ben­nett. He played the or­gan at St An­drew’s Coll­ege, Brad­field (1861); Ho­ly Trin­i­ty Church, West­on-Su­per-Mare (1864); and St. Pe­ter’s, Not­ting Hill, Lon­don (1865). In 1865, he and his wife em­i­grat­ed to Mel­bourne, Au­stral­ia. In Aus­tral­ia, he served as or­gan­ist at St. Pe­ter’s, East­ern Hill (1868-79); All Saints, St. Kil­da (un­til 1896); the Mel­bourne Phil­har­mon­ic Society (1869) (he was al­so the so­ci­e­ty’s con­duct­or, 1872-4); and the Me­tro­pol­i­tan Lie­der­ta­fel (1882-3). In 1867, he be­came a mu­sic teach­er ex­am­in­er for the Board of Ed­u­ca­tion. The Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ex­ford con­ferred a be­lat­ed Ba­che­lor of Mu­sic de­gree upon him 1887. Sum­mers’ works in­clude:

• Music and Mu­si­cians: Per­son­al Rem­i­nis­cenc­es, 1865-1910 (Perth, Aus­tral­ia: The Gal­way Print­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910)

Music

1. Palmyra