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Gerald Hocken Knight
Gerald Hocken Knight CBE (1908–1979) was a cathedral organist, who served at Canterbury Cathedral.
Background.
Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, the only son of Alwyne Knight of Par by his first wife Edith Harvey and descended from yeomen, the Knights of Luxulyan. Gerald was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was an articled organ pupil of Hubert Stanley Middleton at Truro Cathedral.
Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1954
organist of Gloucester Cathedral)
- 1994 Andrew Nethsingha (currently Director of Music at St John's College, Cambridge)
- 2002 Robert Sharpe (currently Director of Music at York Minster)
- 2008 Christopher Gray
- Assistant Organists
- Ivor Atkins 1885–1886
- Frederick Rowland Tims 1902–1907
- William Stanley Sutton 1907–1911
- Mr Hall 1911
- Donald Behenna
- Gerald Hocken Knight 1922–1926
- Arthur William Baines
- John Charles Winter 1950 – 1971 (later Organist and Organist Emeritus)
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