Gerald Hocken Knight

Gerald Hocken Knight CBE (1908–1979) was an cathedral organist, who served at Canterbury Cathedral.^[1]

Background

Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, and was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.^[2] He was an articled organ pupil of Hubert Stanley Middleton at Truro Cathedral.

Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1954-1973.

He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in 1964.

Publications

He published the following compositions and books:

• The Treasury of English Church Music. Volume one. 1100-1545. Edited by Denis Stevens, etc. 1965
• Accompaniments for unison Hymn-singing. 1971
• Christ whose Glory fills the Skies. [Anthem for treble voices and organ.] Words by Charles Wesley, etc. 1957
• The Coventry Mass. Adapted from medieval sources. Accompaniment by G. H. Knight. 1966
• Incidental Vocal Music to "The Devil to pay," Play by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1939
• Incidental Music to The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy L. Sayers. 1938
• Twenty Questions on Church Music. Answered by G. H. Knight (Series. no. 3.), 1950
• R.S.C.M. The first forty years. 1968

Career

Organist of:

• St Augustine of Canterbury, Queens Gate London 1931 - 1937
• Canterbury Cathedral 1937 - 1953

References

1. The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw
2. Clive Staples Lewis, ed. Walter Hooper, Collected Letters: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963 (2006), p. 1015: "Gerald Hocken Knight (1908-78) was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1928."