Andrew Lloyd Webber's son Nicholas dies aged 43

The Grammy-nominated eldest lad of Andrew Lloyd Webber has died aged 43, the composer has announced.

Nicholas Lloyd Webber, a composer and grounds producer, had been having attraction for gastric crab and died astatine Basingstoke Hospital, Hampshire.

"His full household is gathered unneurotic and we are each wholly bereft," Lord Webber, 75, wrote connected Twitter.

Lord Lloyd-Webber, whose deed musicals includes Cats, said 2 days agone that Nick had been moved to a hospice.

His lad was nominated for a Grammy for philharmonic theatre alongside his begetter arsenic good arsenic David Wells and David Zippel for Lord Lloyd-Webber's Cinderella.

He besides scored the euphony for an adaptation of The Little Prince.

The quality followed a video posted by Lord Lloyd-Webber connected Instagram connected Thursday, wherever helium said his lad was recovering from "this archetypal bout of pneumonia" caught arsenic a effect of his "ghastly" cancer.

In the video the composer, who besides wrote the euphony for The Phantom of the Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar, thanked the radical of Ukraine who sent him a Cats t-shirt pursuing the announcement that his lad was critically ill.

He said: "It's incredibly moving... everything they're going done they person been truthful incredibly thoughtful astir dearest Nick.

"I'm going to spell and spot Nick successful a minute, and I'm going to walk connected each of the fantastic wishes that I've had for him each the mode from everyplace each astir the world."