Edward Naylor

Edward Woodall Naylor (9 February 1867 – 7 May 1934) was an English organist and composer.

His father, John Naylor, was organist of York Minster.

He won a choral scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA in 1887.

After spending eight years as organist of London churches St. Michael's Church, Chester Square (1889) and St. Mary's Church, Kilburn (1896), Naylor returned to Cambridge in 1898, where he became an assistant master at The Leys School and organist of Emmanuel College.

His son, Bernard James Naylor (1907–1986) was the first composer (1948) living in Canada to employ post-tonal writing in choral music, and was one of the pioneers of a truly contemporary (post-tonal) English (Anglican) cathedral music in the mid-twentieth century.