Dr. Daphne Braggins

Dr. Daphne Braggins was a musician of note, gaining her musical degrees from Girton College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin. Her main interest in music centred around the organ - an interest which she shared with Gilbert Curtis. Although she wrote music for children, her best known work was St. Patrick's Breastplate, for organ, played regularly by Gilbert Curtis as a voluntary. Apart from composing, she gave many organ recitals and indeed was a well-known recitalist on the instrument. She gave donations to churches and further helped them by giving recitals -a testament to her generosity of spirit. Another great interest of hers was John Bunyan, and she obliged by playing for services at non-conformist churches in need

Dr. Braggins was introduced to S. T .P .by Gilbert Curtis who also initially taught her the technique. However, she was unable to continue her tuition with him owing to the distance between Bedford, where she lived at the time, and the Curtis's home in the Wirral. It seems almost certain that she continued her tuition with Mrs. Ethel Budd of Bedford, and became fully aquainted with the Ernest George White Society as a result of this. Even though Dr. Braggins never became a registered teacher of S.T.P., she was a keen and active member of the Society, supporting meetings by her presence and contributing articles of interest and summaries of recitals to the Journal. Dr. Braggins was also a member of the Organ Club and an obituary was published in their Journal for March 1988.

In her passing, we can say that the absence of her presence will be felt by the Society.