At age 17 he was appointed organist and choirmaster of Holy Trinity Garrison Church, Windsor.
[1][2] After taking his BMus at Queen's College, Oxford, he became Assistant organist to Sir Henry Walford Davies at St George's[3] (1925-1932).
He was chosen as one of a panel of specially co-opted musical adjudicators from Britain for Expo year in Canada.
His anthem "Thou, O God, art praised in Sion" still enjoys a place in the musical repertoire of the Anglican Communion.
For many years no published edition was available, the piece only existing in manuscript form, having been written down from memory by Dr George Guest, who had been a chorister at Chester Cathedral under Boyle.