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

Stocks was born in Essendon, Hertfordshire. He was the son of Walter Fryer Stocks, an artist, and Marian.

As well as a cathedral organist, Harold Stocks was 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 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

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