Ethiopia Saluting the colours

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in 1875 in Holborn, London, to Alice Hare Martin (1856–1953), an English woman, and Dr. Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, from Sierra Leone, of mixed European and African descent. Taylor was brought up in Croydon, Surrey by his mother and her father Benjamin Holmans. Martin's brother was a professional musician. Taylor studied the violin at the Royal College of Music and composition under Charles Villiers Stanford. He also taught, soon being appointed a professor at the Crystal Palace School of Music; and conducted the orchestra at the Croydon Conservatoire. This commemorative piece probably reflected the victory of Ethiopia in the Second Boer War 1899-1902.
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