Colin Ross (composer)

Colin Archibald Campbell Ross (1911–1993) FRCO was an organist, pianist, conductor and composer.

[1] His organ teacher was J.H.Carden, organist of Brecon Cathedral, whose articled pupil he became at the age of sixteen.

[2] It was while at Hereford that Ross met and married his wife Leila Hodges in 1939, according to amateur research by 'The Artful Dodger'.

In 1951 he returned to England, having gained a number of organist's jobs in London, Tunbridge Wells, and Worth in East Sussex, before moving to Newcastle Upon Tyne to become organist and choirmaster at Cathedral Church of St Nicholas in 1955.

[4] In 1966 he moved to Worthing in West Sussex to take up the post of music teacher at the Boys' High School where he stayed for two years.