Christopher Webber wrote:

>"Great" English composers?.....
>
>Any short list which failed to find room for Tallis, Handel (mightiest of
>all) Holst, Delius and Bax would fall at the first fence anyway.

Handel would have been an obvious choice, but I think many folks
interpreted the question as referring to native-born English composers.
I haven't figured out if such a criterion automatically excludes someone
from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the parts of France
that Henry V or whomever claimed to reign over....

Bill H. from the Colonies