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===Marriage and teaching=== [[File:St Paul's Girls' School, London 14.JPG|thumb|St Paul's Girls' School, [[Brook Green]], London]] [[File:Royal College of Music - April 2007.jpg|thumb|Royal College of Music, [[Kensington]], London]] In 1920 Howells married Dorothy Eveline Goozee (1891β1975), informally adopted daughter of John and Alma Dawe.<ref>Dorothy Eveline Goozee βMarriage register, 1913-1920β (August 3, 1920), p. 24, entry no. 48, Twigworth parish records: Gloucestershire Archives: Gloucester, UK: P342/IN/1/5.</ref> Dorothy was a singer whom he had met in 1911 when deputising as her accompanist.<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Christopher|title=Herbert Howells: a centenary celebration|year=1992|publisher=Thames|location=London|isbn=0-905210-86-7|page=13}}</ref> The marriage endured despite Howells' frequent infidelities,<ref>{{cite book|author=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=83}}</ref> and produced two children, [[Ursula Howells|Ursula]] (1922β2005), later an actress, and Michael (1926β1935).<ref>{{cite web |title=Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Howells |url=http://www.vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl776 |website=The Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams |publisher=The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust |access-date=5 October 2020}}</ref> In the same year he joined the staff of the Royal College of Music, where he was to remain until 1979.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=181}}</ref> Among his pupils were [[Robert Simpson (composer)|Robert Simpson]], [[Gordon Jacob]], [[James Bernard (composer)|James Bernard]], [[Paul Spicer (musician)|Paul Spicer]], [[Madeleine Dring]], and [[Imogen Holst]]. The post at the RCM, which from 1925 he combined with the position of Director of Music at [[St Paul's Girls' School]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Palmer|title=Howells:a centenary celebration|year=1992|page=83}}</ref> and frequent work as a competition adjudicator, was to reduce the amount of time he could devote to composition;<ref>{{cite book|author=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=74}}</ref> but he continued to write orchestral and chamber music, including the string quartet ''In Gloucestershire'' (originally written 1916, but rewritten in whole or in part several times and not reaching its final form until the 1930s),<ref>{{cite book|author=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=79}}</ref> the overture ''Merry Eye'' (1920) and the second Piano Concerto (1925). The first performance of the last named work occasioned a demonstration in the concert hall from a hostile critic.<ref>{{cite book|author=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=81}}</ref> Howells, always over-sensitive to criticism, withdrew the work and produced few significant compositions for several years.<ref>{{cite book|author=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=82}}</ref> Howells' friend and fellow composer, Martin Sumpter, encouraged this temporary hiatus from composing large-scale works.{{fact|date=August 2023}} One exception was ''Lambert's [[Clavichord]]'' (1928), a rare example of a composition by a 20th-century composer for that instrument.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Kennedy|first=Michael|title=Howells, Herbert|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Music|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00kenn/page/343 343]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1985|isbn=0-19-311333-3|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00kenn/page/343}}</ref> It was inspired by a clavichord lent to Howells by his friend [[Herbert Lambert]], an instrument maker and photographer based in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Spicer|title=Howells|year=1998|page=88}}</ref> Several other major compositions written around this time, however, remained unperformed, notably an ''a capella [[Requiem (Howells)|Requiem]]'' to English words written in 1932,<ref>{{cite book|author=Palmer|title=Herbert Howells: a centenary celebration|year=1992|page=98}}Until the publication of Palmer's researches, the ''Requiem'' was believed to have been composed in 1936.</ref> and a choral work, ''A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song'', written the following year.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song (1933) |url=https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/12871/A-Kent-Yeomans-Wooing-Song--Herbert-Howells/ |publisher=Wise Music |access-date=5 October 2020}}</ref>
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