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Sir Simon Peter Edmund Cosmo William Towneley, KCVO, KCSG (born 14 December 1921)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/ko.htm )〕 was born with the surname Koch de Gooreynd, the elder son of a British father of Belgian stock, Alexander L.W. Koch de Gooreynd, and a British mother (Priscilla Reyntiens), also of partial Belgian descent. Alexander Koch de Gooreynd changed the family name prior to the birth of Towneley's younger brother, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, the journalist. The brothers were raised Catholic, but did not attend denominational schools. Worsthorne assumed the surname and arms of Towneley, an old recusant family, by royal license. At the time of his wedding, he changed his name and took on the remaining Lancashire inheritance of that family, of which his great-grandmother Caroline Theresa, Lady Abingdon, had been one of the three co-heiresses. In 1954 (under the name Simon Towneley Worsthorne) he published ''Venetian Opera in the 17th Century'', a seminal study of the field, which played a significant role in the remarkable revival of the Venetian opera repertory in the latter 20th century. ==Honours== He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1971 and Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1976 to 1996. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Towneley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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