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Charles O'Brien (Mus.Bac. Oxon and Mus.Doc. TCDublin) studied composition under Hamish MacCunn and was conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union and the Bach Choir. He was a President of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians of which his father was a founder member. Although he became a Director of the London College of Music, and was elected an Honorary Fellow, he always lived in Edinburgh, where his professional life was spent as an organist, pianist and Director of Music at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh.