ElgarYou are in: Hereford and Worcester > Entertainment > Music > Elgar > Elgar - Facts Elgar Elgar - FactsSome unusual facts about Sir Edward Elgar that you may not know. - Elgar loved wordplay: His Enigma Variations contained clues as to the people who inspired each of the pieces: His daughter was called Carice, using part of each of his wife's forenames Car(oline Al)ice: His house in Malvern was called Craeg Lea, an anagram of C(arice), A(lice) and E(dward) Elgar.听
- Elgar liked sport: he played golf (you can see his clubs in the Elgar Birthplace Museum), and in later years was interested in horse racing.
- He was also fascinated by science, conducting his own primitive experiments at home.
- The famous poem by Lawrence Binyon "For the fallen" (They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old), which is heard every Remembrance Day, was set to music by Elgar in his "The Spirit of England".
- Elgar had a locomotive named after him. The Sir Edward Elgar was a Bulldog class loco., number 3414, and it was built in 1906 and withdrawn from service in 1938.
- The maverick film director Ken Russell made a film of Elgar's life for the 91热爆 In 1962. It has been re-released on DVD.
- There are 65 roads named after Elgar in the UK, including six in the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
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