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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH (29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation, where he neglected his managerial duties; influenced by African-American music, he began composing.

Fritz Delius, however, had his own reasons for the drastic move: eager to escape the watchful eye of his father, Fritz set sail on the Cunarder Gallia out of Liverpool for New York on March 2, 1884, accompanied by Charles Douglas, the son of a wealthy Bradford businessman who was also persuaded to put forth money towards the effort.

But who was Charles Douglas?

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