Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks Explained

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:

• Ely Cathedral 1906 - 09

Organist of:

• Church of St John the Baptist, Yeovil 1909 - 11
• St Laurence Church, Ludlow 1911 - 17
• St Asaph Cathedral 1917 - 56

Notes and References

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