Sir Walter Parratt KCVO (10 February 1841 – 27 March 1924) was an English organist and composer.

[2] He was a child prodigy: on one occasion he played Bach's complete The Well-Tempered Clavier by heart, without notice, at age ten.

[3] From 1854 to 1861 he was an organist at St Paul's Church in his native town and, as successor to John Stainer, in 1872 at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he remained for ten years.

[4] He served for a few months as president of the Oxford University Chess Club and for two years was captain of the eight chosen to play against Cambridge.

In 1893 he was appointed Master of the Queen's Musick to Queen Victoria, and afterward held the same office under Kings Edward VII[6] and George V.[2] Later honours included: Member (MVO, 1901), Commander (CVO, 1917), and Knight Commander (KCVO, 1921) of the Royal Victorian Order.