

He stayed at Mannofield Parish Church for only a few months before moving south to work as organist and choirmaster under the Reverend Dr.

Returning to Scotland due to illness after only three years in London, Hadden “thought no more of bookselling” and “determined to be a musician,” taking up work as an organist first in Aberdeen and then Crieff. In 1878, at the age of 18, Hadden moved to London to work at the Routledge publishing house, spending his workdays in the literary world and his evenings and weekends practising his skills with the piano and organ. Hadden was born in Banchory-Ternan, near Aberdeen, on the 5 th September 1859, and by the age of 14 was working with Aberdonian booksellers A. James Cuthbert Hadden (1859-1914) was a Scottish litterateur and “Master of the Song” who balanced his twin loves of music and literature throughout his life, publishing a myriad of articles, biographies and books while working as an organist in Aberdeen, Crieff, and Edinburgh. Cuthbert Hadden in one of the lastīooks he published before his death in May 1914.
