Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks (21 October 1884 – 1956) was an English
cathedral organist, who served in
St Asaph Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saints Asaph and Cyndeyrn, commonly called St Asaph Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy), is a cathedral in St Asaph, Denbighshire, north Wales. It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of St Asaph. The cathedral d ...
.
Background
Stocks was born in
Essendon, Hertfordshire. He was the son of Marian Stocks and
Walter Fryer Stocks
Walter Fryer Stocks (1842–1915) was an English artist.
Life
Walter Fryer Stocks was the second son of nine children (eight sons and a daughter) of the engraver Lumb Stocks (1812–1892) and Ellen Fryer (1813–1898). Walter's younger brother, ...
, an artist. Stocks was also a composer, principally of church music, and the author of books on the training of choristers and cathedral organists.
[''The Musical Times'', March 1956.]
Career
Assistant organist:
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Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
The cathedral has its origins in AD 672 when St Etheldreda built an abbey church. The presen ...
1906–09
Organist of:
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Church of St John the Baptist, Yeovil
The Church of St John the Baptist in Yeovil, Somerset, is a Church of England parish church.
The church was built in the late 14th century, but was reconstructed in the 1850s. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The tower, whic ...
1909–11
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St Laurence Church, Ludlow 1911–17
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St Asaph Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saints Asaph and Cyndeyrn, commonly called St Asaph Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy), is a cathedral in St Asaph, Denbighshire, north Wales. It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of St Asaph. The cathedral d ...
1917–56
References
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English classical organists
British male organists
Cathedral organists
1884 births
1956 deaths
People from Essendon, Hertfordshire
20th-century organists
20th-century British male musicians
20th-century classical musicians
Male classical organists