He was born in Kirkby Lonsdale and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man and at Peterhouse Cambridge, where he was organ scholar.
[2] While head of the Opera Department at the Royal College of Music in the 1920s he staged managed and designed their first productions of Vaughan Williams' The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains and Hugh the Drover, and produced Sir John in Love.
[5] Peter Maxwell Davies was even more dismissive:[6] "Procter-Gregg hated anything by Stravinsky or Bartok, and referred to Beethoven as that dreadful German bow-wow.
[7] His designs for the Denmark Road concert hall gave it one of the best acoustics for chamber music in the north of England.
An 80th birthday tribute concert was held in Denmark Road on 31 October 1975, at which his Horn Sonata was played by Robert Ashworth.