He returned to England in 1935, aged 19, to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells and Arthur Benjamin.
[2] The choral cantata The Summer's Nightingale, first performed and broadcast in 1955, was revived in 1984 at a BBC concert in Manchester.
[3] A year before his death, a concert marking his 80th birthday was held at All Saints' Church, Tudeley, reviving several of his works, including the Five Songs after John Milton and extracts from the cantata Of Beasts.
Alison Cox OBE, his daughter from the first marriage, is a composer, a teacher and (since 1988) Head of Composition at the Purcell School for Young Musicians in Hertfordshire.
At the BBC Cox arranged various signature tunes, including Lilliburlero, which was first heard on the World Service in 1943.