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: *

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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1909–11 * St Laurence Church, Ludlow 1911–17 *

1917–56

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stocks, Harold 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