McCarthy, David Wyn

Composer

b Pentre Broughton nr Wrexham, N Wales 1931. Newcastle-under-Lyme High Sch, Staffs, and Queen Elizabeth Grammar Sch Wakefield; Downing Coll Cambridge (English and Theology), MA and LRAM. Teacher of English and subsequently Director of Music at Woodhouse Grove Sch near Bradford (Methodist boarding school). Methodist local preacher; active in Methodist Church Music Society and Methodist Assn of Youth Clubs. Several published hymn tunes, some in collaboration with Fred Pratt Green. No.30B.