Notes for: Charles Murray Winstanley Shadwell
First marriage to Mary A Winters in 1915.
From http://www.musicweb-international.com/garlands/23rd.htm:
A TWENTY-THIRD GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT OF MUSIC COMPOSERS
Several of the previous 22 of these Garlands have featured composers who doubled as Conductors on the BBC and elsewhere, or vice versa. We may begin this one with Charles Murray Winstanley Shadwell, born in Surrey just a hundred years ago (I write in January 1998) and who died in Pershore on 3 July 1979. After service in the Great War he studied at the Royal Academy of Music before beginning his professional career playing the piano for a silent cinema. From there it was but a step to becoming a theatre musical director, a job he undertook at Hippodrome theatres in Portsmouth, Brighton and Coventry successively between 1929 and 1936. The Coventry position involved him in live broadcasting and recording for Regal Zonophone. The ten years he spent as Conductor of the BBC Variety Orchestra between 1936 and 1946 brought him even greater fame in programmes like "Music Hall" - which always ended with Shadwell's own march Down With the Curtain - and "ITMA", which featured Charles both in a musical spot (usually an arrangement of a traditional or popular tune by figures like Gordon Jacob, Clive Richardson or Ronald Hanmer) and in cross-talk with the great Tommy Handley himself. The BBCVO had been formed in 1934 with Kneale Kelly as its first conductor; Rae Jenkins took over from Shadwell. When he left the Variety Orchestra, Shadwell formed his own Orchestra which played in variety halls and on the BBC and during the 1950s appeared in summer seasons at the Summer Pavilion at Paignton in South Devon where it played twice daily, mornings and evenings. He eventually retired from music to take a pub (The Green Man, or possibly The Old Green Man) at Trumpington just outside Cambridge.. He rarely pushed his own compositions but these included, besides the march already alluded to, attractive genre pieces like Will o'the Wisp, Sunset and, recorded with the BBCVO, Lulworth Cove.
Cambridge Daily News 31 Aug 1957: The landlord of the Green Man in Trumpington is Charlie Shadwell, the well-known conductor of the BBC Variety Orchestra which has made over 11,000 radio broadcasts, many of them in the ‘Itma’ series that were so popular during the war years. He also conducted the Cambridge New Theatre orchestra during 1930. He makes regular trips to London to arrange music for the BBC television shows