William Harold Nelson Shakespeare William Harold Nelson Shakespeare Wing Commander William Harold Nelson Shakespeare (24 August 1893 – 10 July 1976) was an English aviator who flew for the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force in World War I. He was awarded both the Air Force Cross and the Military Cross during his time in the military. Shakespeare later worked as a civilian pilot for Handley Page, captaining the first passenger flight from London to Athens, and eventually became president of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA). He also served as president of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, for whom he had earlier
William Shakespeare (tenor) of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He died in London in 1931. In addition to singing and composition, William Shakespeare wrote and published several books. These include "The Art of Singing", a three-part series published from 1898 to 1899, "Singing for Schools and Colleges", published in 1907, "Plain Words on Singing" in 1924, and "The Speaker's Art" in 1931. William Shakespeare's style of vocal pedagogy mirrored closely that of his Italian mentor Lamperti, as evidenced from his direct reference to "la lotte vocal", a concept taken directly from the nineteenth-century Italianate school of vocal development. William Shakespeare (tenor)