Academic Career
Squire was professor of cello at the Royal College of Music in London between 1898 and 1917. From 1911 to 1917 he was professor at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He was an examiner for the Royal Academy of Music in London and also adjudicated at various music festivals. He was an adjudicator for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music submitting some of his own pieces for the syllabuses. Amongst his pupils were the cellists Cedric Sharpe (1891-1978) and Colin Hampton (1911-1996). Between 1926 and 1953 he was vice chairman of the Performing Rights Society.
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