R. A. Streatfield

Richard Alexander Streatfeild (22 June 1866 – 6 February 1919) was an English musicologist and critic. His career was spent at the British Museum, although not in its music department. His publications included books on opera, Handel and modern music. He had literary interests and arranged for posthumous publication of his friend Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh.

Life and career Streatfeild was born in Carshalton, Surrey, the son of Frank Newton Streatfeild, a diplomat in Southern Africa. He was educated at Oundle and Pembroke College, Cambridge, The 1907 edition was published online by Project Gutenberg in 2005.

Streatfeild also had literary interests, and was the literary executor of Samuel Butler. Under Streatfeild's supervision Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh was published in altered form in 1903, the year after the death of its author.

Streatfeild died in London at the age of 52.

Books by Streatfeild