Sydney Watson

WATSON, Sydney. b. Denton, near Manchester, 3 September 1903; d. 17 February 1991. He was educated at Warwick School and then studied the organ at the Royal College of Music for a year (1921-22) before going on to Oxford to be organ scholar at Keble College (1922-25, BA 1925, BMus 1926, DMus 1932). In 1933 he won the Lafontaine Prize for his FRCO diploma. After leaving Keble in 1925 he began a career in school teaching, first at Stowe School (1925-8) and then as precentor at Radley College (1929-33). In 1933, after John Dykes Bower* left New College, Oxford for Durham, he was appointed organist of New College, where he remained until 1938. He then succeeded George Dyson* at Winchester...