Description

ALFRED STROUD HAXTON (LONDON, 6 JANUARY, 1884 – WESTMINSTER, 20 MAY, 1933)

He was born 1884 in the Strand district of London, son of Richard Haxton and Louisa Harriette Webb.  At the time of the 1911 census he was living with his parents in Dollis Villas, Neasden.  His father was an electrician, Stroud’s occupation is shown as violinist/concert agent.

Just prior to WW1 he was performing with his band at a club called The 400 in Old Bond Street, London.

He married Leah Primrose Barnato, daughter of diamond millionaire Barney Barnato, in 1916 in Westchester, New York.  Stroud and Leah had one child, a daughter called Olive Primrose born 1915 in Connecticut.  A US WW1 draft registration card dated September 1918 shows his occupation to be President of the Trego Motors Corporation.  They were living at the Hotel Knickerbocker, Times Square, New York at this time.

The couple divorced.  Stroud married again to a woman called Marjorie May Maxine and he died in 1931 in Roehampton in Surrey.  His first wife Leah Barnato married Carlyle Blackwell, star of many silent films, in 1926 at St George Hanover Square, London  Leah died in 1933 in Westminster.

TRACKLIST

1. A Broken Heart (Gillett) Beka 41295
2. Ave Maria (Gounod) Regal G 6218 S 656
3. Canzonetta Ave Maria Indestructible Record 3177
4. Cavatina (Raff) Columbia 1412 26925
5. Cavatina (Raff) Odeon A 144926 A 42932
6. Hearts and flowers Indestructible Record 3141
7. I’m Just Wild About Harry (Sissle & Blake) One-Step Max Darewski Zonophone 2292 X-48077
8. Intermezzo (Johnson) Indestructible Record 3149
9. Kaltenborn String Quartet By The Sea Shore Au bord de la mer – Reverie Columbia A5266 30616-2
10. Kaltenborn String Quartet Declaration from The Beautiful Milleress (Suite for String Quartet, no. 5) Columbia A991 19217-1
11. Kaltenborn String Quartet Largo from Haydn’s String quartet op. 76, no. 5 Columbia A5266 30615-2
12. Ka-Lu-A (Kern) Fox-trot Max Darewski (piano) Ariel 3501
13. Melody in F (Rubinstein) Beka 35015
14. Rigoletto (Verdi) Caro nome Columbia 1412 26929
15. Souvenir (Vieuxtemps) Indestructible Record 7052
16. Souvenir de Sorrento Zonophone T-5135
17. The Canary (Poliankin) Zonophone T-5112
18. Träumerei (Schumann) Odeon A 144927 LXO 2744