Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
English cathedral organist
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
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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 |