Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks (21 October 1884 – 1956) was an English cathedral organist, who served in St Asaph Cathedral.[1]

Background

Stocks was born in Essendon, Hertfordshire. He was the son of Marian Stocks and Walter Fryer Stocks, an artist. Stocks was also a composer, principally of church music, and the author of books on the training of choristers and cathedral organists.[2]

Career

Assistant organist:

Organist of:

Cultural offices Preceded byNorman Charles Woods Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Laurence Church, Ludlow 1911–1917 Succeeded byFrank Edgar Bastick Preceded byWilliam Edward Belcher Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Asaph Cathedral 1917–1956 Succeeded byRobert Duke Dickinson

References

  1. ^ The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw.
  2. ^ The Musical Times, March 1956.
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