David Sutcliffe

David Sutcliffe is a folk music researcher and writer. He attended Queens’

College Cambridge in the 1970s and after VSO teaching in Papua New Guinea, he

worked for OXFAM and then the British Council for several years. His biography

of the early Christian Socialist Rev Charles Marson (The Keys of Heaven) was

published in 2010. In 2023 Sutcliffe wrote the new biography of Cecil Sharp, the

folk song collector and friend of Rev Marson. See ‘Cecil Sharp and the Quest for

Folk Song and Dance’ ISBN 9781916142473 (The Ballad Partners).