Percy William Whitlock (1 June 1903 in Chatham, Kent – 1 May 1946 in Bournemouth),[1] was an English organist and post-romantic composer.
Percy Whitlock studied at London's Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and organ with Henry Ley.
He served as Director of Music at St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth for the next five years, combining this from 1932 with the role of that town's borough organist, in which capacity he regularly played at the local Pavilion Theatre.
This neglect has eased in recent times, in particular through the activities and publications of the Percy Whitlock Trust, founded in 1983.
His church music includes a Communion Service in G and the two motets Glorious in heaven (1925) and Jesu, grant me this I pray (1928, revised 1945).