Augustus Hughes-Hughes

“ Hawkins describes him as bachelor of music; he certainly took a musical degree, as he is styled in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 31922 ‘in armonia graduat,’ and his early death makes it improbable that he obtained a doctor's degree. In 1520 Lloyd, along with the other gentlemen of Henry VIII's Chapel, attended the king at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and in January in the following year he appears to have accompanied his royal master on a visit to the Duke of Buckingham at Thornbury Castle, Gloucestershire. ”

“ Of his anthems, one, ‘O give thanks,’ is included in the Tudway collection; another, ‘When the Lord turned,’ is bound up with some of the parts of the copy of Barnard's ‘Selected Church Music,’ now in the library of the Royal College of Music. ”

“ In 1661 Lowe brought out at Oxford his opus magnum, entitled ‘A Short Direction for the performance of Cathedrall Service, Published for the Information of Such Persons, as are Ignorant of it, And shall be call'd to officiate in Cathedrall, or Collegiate Churches where it hath formerly been in use.’ In a short introduction ‘To all gentlemen that are true lovers of Cathedrall Musicke,’ he writes ‘To revive the generall practise of the ordinary performance of Cathedrall service ... a Person is willingly imployed, who hath seen, understood, and bore a part in the same from his Childhood ... ”