Charles Edward Horsley (1822-1876) was born in London, England. His father William was a composer and musician; his mother Elizabeth was daughter of the composer J. W. Callcott. He studied piano under Mendelssohn’s friend Ignaz Moscheles and went to Leipzig to study under Mendelssohn, Hauptmann, and Spohr. He taught music and was organist of St. John’s, Notting Hill, London, but left England for Australia in 1861. He was organist at Christ Church, South Yarra, then became organist at St. Stephen’s Church, Richmond. For three years, he was conductor of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society. In 1870 he was appointed organist at St. Francis’s Church, Victoria. In 1871 he returned to England and 1873 went to the U.S. when he was appointed organist to St John’s Chapel of the Trinity Corporation, New York. He was also conductor of the Church Music Association. He died in New York. He composed a number of oratorios, cantatas, chamber music, piano works, songs, part-songs, anthems and a church hymnal. He edited a collection of glees by his father and authored Text Book of Harmony (1876).