MARY JANE SYBIL PALLISER
1874-1940
Composer
Source - Cyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, 1925
SYBIL PALLISER
Contemporary song composer, born London.
Notes by TJS:
Still in her teens, Sybil Palliser was among those who performed for
Queen Victoria at Osborne House on 31st January, 1895, which the
queen also mentioned in her diary. At the age of sixteen, in 1891, Sybil had
already given a piano concert at the Meistersingers
Club at 63 St James’s Street in London, arranged by her mother, Lady
Palliser and her uncle, Edward Palliser. She studied at the Royal Academy of
Music, and in April, 1895, was awarded the Charles Mortimer Prize for
composition at the academy. Sybil appeared frequently at the popular Gloucester
Music Festival and other venues.
Her contemporary was Esther Palliser, and the two were quite the ‘pop
princesses’ of their day. Esther’s real name was Walters but was no relation
and had no Palliser background or ancestry.
Mary Jane Sybil Palliser was born in Kensington on 23rd
February, 1874, the youngest daughter of Sir William Palliser. In 1908, she
married Major Harold Galloway, who was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1916.
She was generally known as Sybil, and was sister to my grandfather, Hugh
Arbuthnot Palliser. She inherited Annestown House in 1906, which had been in
the Palliser family for the previous hundred years.
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Edward Palliser with his three nieces, May, Sybil and Grace in about
1894. |
Annestown House, Co. Waterford, Ireland,
once the home of Mary Jane Sybil Palliser Galloway, which I first visited in
1984. |
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