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- William Hayman Cummings, born in Sidbury in Devon, was an English musician, tenor and organist at Waltham Abbey. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School and the City of London School, becoming a pupil of Dr E.J. Hopkins, J. W Hobbs and Alberto Randegger, and was for many years a chorister in St Paul's Cathedral and the Temple Church. In 1847, as a teenager, he was one of the choristers when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first London performance of his Elijah at Exeter Hall. Cummings also sang at numerous festivals and concerts throughout Great Britain and twice toured in the United States. He is credited in 1855 with linking Mendelssohn's tune to Charles Wesley's words Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, which are now universally inextricably linked. At the Birmingham Festival he was the last-minute tenor soloist at the premiere of The Masque at Kenilworth (1866) by Arthur Sullivan, taking Mario's place (with only half-an-hour's notice to prepare). Cummings founded the Purcell Society in 1876. He served as singing professor at the Royal Academy of Music for 15 years beginning in 1879, then became a professor and later the principal of the Guildhall School of Music. He received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Dublin University in 1900 and was made a gentleman of the Chapel Royal. Cummings' other appintments included: Professor - The Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind Council Member, Incorporated Society of Musicians Vice-President, Royal College of Organists Vice-President, Royal Musical Association Hon. Treasurer, Royal Society of Musicians Hon. Treasurer, Philharmonic Society President, Incorporated Staff Sight Singing College Cummings married Clara Anne Hobbs, a daughter of his teacher, the well-known singer John William Hobbs (1799-1877). He died in London and is buried in West Norwood Cemetery, South London.
- Wiliam Hayman Cummings compositor anglès. Va pertànyer al cor de l'església de Sant Paul i fou tenor de la capella reial i de l'abadia de Westminster i solista en moltes festes musicals, fent-se aplaudir també a l'escena. Vicedirector el 1882 i després director, el 1886 de la Sacred Harmonic Society, és, des de 1896, director del Conservatori de Música de Queldhall. Donà nombroses conferencies envers la història de la música en la Royal Institution i en la London Institution; dirigí les publicacions de la Purcell-Society, també va escriure una biografia de Henry Purcell per l'obra Great Musicians de Hüffers, un Biographical Dictionary of Music, un llibre d’ensenyament de música elemental. Rudiments of Music, i articles per el Diccionari de la Música, de Grove. També fou professor de la Reial Acadèmia de Música i vicepresident del Reial Col•legi d'Organistes. A part de diverses composicions, majorment religioses, també va escriure The Life of Purcell, The Origin and History of Good Save King i Life of Handel. Cummings es casà amb Clara Anne Hobbs, filla del seu professor, el cantant ben conegut John William Hobbs. Morí a Londres i fou enterrat en el cementiri de l'oest de Norwood, Londres del sud.
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- William Hayman Cummings, born in Sidbury in Devon, was an English musician, tenor and organist at Waltham Abbey. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School and the City of London School, becoming a pupil of Dr E.J. Hopkins, J. W Hobbs and Alberto Randegger, and was for many years a chorister in St Paul's Cathedral and the Temple Church. In 1847, as a teenager, he was one of the choristers when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first London performance of his Elijah at Exeter Hall.
- Wiliam Hayman Cummings compositor anglès. Va pertànyer al cor de l'església de Sant Paul i fou tenor de la capella reial i de l'abadia de Westminster i solista en moltes festes musicals, fent-se aplaudir també a l'escena. Vicedirector el 1882 i després director, el 1886 de la Sacred Harmonic Society, és, des de 1896, director del Conservatori de Música de Queldhall.
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