Bristol filer

I'm a retired engineering lecturer resident in Bristol, UK. My current research interests are largely in the 19th century. They include:

• The early history of the British General Electric Company.
• The exploits of the sea captains Samuel Congalton and his nephew William Congalton, and their ships the 'Diana' the 'Hooghly' and the 'Robert Lowe'.
• The adventures of my great grandfather Henry Taylor in the Americas and the Sandwich Islands in the early 1860s.
• The Transandine Railway between Chile and Argentina and its designers Juan and Mateo Clark.
• 19th century British architects with particular reference to Alfred Waterhouse, George Gilbert Scott and the virtually forgotten David Mackintosh.
• The life of John Lyon and the histories of the schools associated with him: Harrow School and The John Lyon School.
• W S Lindsay

All that leaves me virtually no time for my main musical interest, the life and works of that most underrated of recent composers, Carl Nielsen.

Help with any of these projects would be greatly appreciated. Robert Cutts, September 2011



The Memorial to Carl Nielsen in Copenhagen by his wife, Ann Marie