Naylor, Kenneth Nicholson

Composer

b Sunderland, Co Durham 1931, d Cambridge 1991. Kingswood Sch, Bath, and Magdalene Coll Cambridge (graduating in music). He taught at The Leys Sch, Cambridge (1953–80), and Christ’s Hospital (public sch), Horsham, Sussex (1980–86). Gifted as an organist, a composer of music which was both appropriate and acceptable to schoolboys, and encouraging them to sing well. His tunes featured in the Christ’s Hospital Hymn Book of 1988, and the posthumous collection compiled by Christopher Solomon, The Hymn Tunes of Ken Naylor (1997). No.247.