Are there any other famous british classical composers besides Elgar?

Some good answers already. I would add some who are no so well known but whose music is definitely worth exploring:

Thomas Adès

William Alwyn

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

Edgar Bainton

Granville Bantock

George Benjamin

Richard Rodney Bennett

Lennox Berkeley

Lord Berners

Arthur Bliss

Frank Bridge

Martin Butler

George Butterworth

George Dyson

John Foulds

Benjamin Frankel

John Ireland

Hamilton Harty

Constant Lambert

Elizabeth Maconchy

Alexander Mackenzie

James MacMillan

Steve Martland

Peter Maxwell Davies

Nicholas Maw

EJ Moeran

Alan Rawsthorne

Edmund Rubbra

Robert Saxton

Robert Simpson

Michael Tippett

Mark Anthony Turnage

Benjamin Wallfisch

John Woolrich

British Classical Composers

Grainger was Australian, but other famous British composers are Thomas Arne, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Henry Purcell, Gustav Holst

Yes, there is perhaps the greatest British composer Ralph Vaughan WIlliams. (Sorry Elgar fans) and Sir Benjamin Britten.

Others that I love are:

Holst

Finzi

Walton

Delius

Bax

Arnold

How about these..

Henry Purcell, Handel, Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams,Gustav Holst and

Benjamin Britten

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Are there any other famous british classical composers besides Elgar?

I'm only familiar with Sir Edward Elgar. Thanks!

Sir Richard David James

You bet your Greensleves there are-

Malcolm Arnold

Arnold Bax

Ralph Kramden oops I mean Vaughn Williams

Percy Grainger

Holst

Delius and many many more

Also Gilbert and Sullivan, William Walton, and the oft omitted Medieval composer John Dunstable.

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