He wrote over two hundred works across many genres and styles, including tonal, serial, aleatoric and electroacoustic music.
[1] In April 1948 Victory married Geraldine Herity, and they had five children: Alma, Fiona, Isolde, Raymond, and Alan.
His papers are held in Trinity College and the Contemporary Music Centre holds a number of his scores.
[3] In terms of composition, Victory was mostly self-taught, although he received some formal training from John F. Larchet, Alan Rawsthorne and Walter Beckett.
[3] The Gerard Victory Commission, a prize named in his honour, is awarded to the most promising individual composer.