If you’re interested...
Didn’t know he was descended from Taverner (whom I greatly prefer). Thanks RoosterRedux.
http://www.counter-currents.com/2013/11/sir-john-tavener/
John Kenneth Tavener was born on 28 January 1944 in Wembley. He was a direct descendant of the 16th-century composer John Taverner (with an extra “r”). According to Wikipedia, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was liturgical composer John Rutter, and at the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers included Sir Lennox Berkeley...
Tavener was a tall, gaunt man with life-long health problems. He suffered from Marfan’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissues that often has severe effects on the cardiovascular system. Tavener had a stroke when he was in his thirties and multiple heart attacks beginning in his forties.