Performance
Harold Austin
Harold Austin is credited on 82 releases across 10 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2014 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
82
Pressings credited
10
Albums
7
Decades active
12
In collections
Biography
Sir Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin (15 July 1877 – 27 July 1943) was a Barbadian politician and cricketer. He was known as H.B.G.. Austin was the son of John Gardiner Austin, a shipper connected with the sugar trade, and his wife Dorothy and was educated at Harrison College, Barbados. He married Lillian Marie Dennehy in St. Lucia in 1904 and had two daughters. Austin served as honorary consul for the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway in Bridgetown from 5 December 1902. Austin was awarded the OBE in 1927, was knighted in 1935. He lost his seat to Charles Duncan O'Neal in 1932 by one vote. Austin was Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados 1934-1937, 1938-1942. Austin captained the West Indian cricket teams that toured England in 1906 and 1923. He was a right hand batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. He was one of a family of cricketers which included his brothers John ("Ruff"), Arthur ("A.P.G."), Malcolm ("M.P.G.") and Francis. H.B.G.'s younger daughter Clodagh married Gilbert White who played cricket for the Army in 1938. In June 1988 Austin was celebrated on a 75c Barbadian stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle.
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Credited work
82 releases · 10 albums · active 1956–2014
- Performance · 96
Studios: The Embers (2) · Chatterbox Room, Penn Hotel, Pittsburg, PA · Carnegie Hall
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