Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks

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

Background

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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

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Assistant organist:

Organist of:

Cultural offices
Preceded by
Norman Charles Woods
Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Laurence Church, Ludlow
1911–1917
Succeeded by
Frank Edgar Bastick
Preceded by
William Edward Belcher
Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Asaph Cathedral
1917–1956
Succeeded by
Robert Duke Dickinson

References

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