Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1857-1924) studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London, under Frederick Westlake (1840–1898). Her father Charles, who became bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, had no interest in music, but Ellicott’s mother Constantia, an accomplished singer who was involved in the founding of the Gloucester Philharmonic Society and the Handel Society in London, encouraged her daughter and was her first teacher. Ellicott composed a number of large-scale and chamber works in the 1880s and 1890s that were very warmly received. Sadly, many of her works have not survived
