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 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

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.