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Musician / Composer
A.k.a. Christopher Frederick Eley
(1756 - 1832) Clarinettist, Cellist and Composer Became the Music-Master of the Coldstream Guards at the request of Frederick, Duke of York and Colonel, Coldstream Guards in 1785. Eley wrote the Duke of York slow march for the Colonel of the Regiment,The Duke of York and published the march under that title in 1789. The same march was republished under the title the Figaro March in 1805. The Regiment adopted the march as its Regimental March in 1805