English: Plaque on Merebank House, near Dorking, to say that Baron Frédéric Alfred D'Erlanger, the composer of the opera Tess and other operatic, musical and ballet works, founder of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Society, laid this stone (the 5 bedroom detached house was built for the retired members of the musicians union, not him, and showed on a local postcard as the musicians pension fund convalescent home, Holmwood; Baron D'Erlanger laid the foundation stone, was present at its opening, and a performance of his opera Tess later took place in the garden, attended also by Sir Henry Wood).