Geoffrey Laycock

LAYCOCK, Geoffrey Stephen Newton. b. York, 27 January 1927; d. Norwich, 21 May 1986. He was a student of the organ under Sir Edward Bairstow*. He later studied at the Royal College of Music. After teaching in schools, he was appointed principal lecturer in music, Keswick Hall College, Norwich (1966-81). For part of that time he was organist of St George’s Roman Catholic Church, Norwich. He was the co-editor, responsible for the music, with Anthony Petti*, of the New Catholic Hymnal (1971), for which he provided a translation of the Latin Vesper hymn, ‘Jam sol recedit igneus’, beginning ‘The setting sun now dies away’, and an original hymn, ‘When all is dark and as the night’. He provided 18...