What nationality was the person who wrote the music for Soft Flowing Avon?
Thomas Arne Thomas Augustine Arne ( ; 12 March 1710, London – 5 March 1778, London) was an English composer, best known for the patriotic song "Rule Britannia". He also wrote a version of "God Save the King", which became the British national anthem, and the song "A-Hunting We Will Go". Arne was the leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (in Gaelic: Seathrún de Pámar) (8 October 1882 – 29 November 1957) was an Irish composer, mainly of operas and vocal music, among them the first musical settings of poems by James Joyce.