Church at St Ives and then at Newquay Wesley (1908-1920). During his sojourn in Cornwall he remarked to a friend that he was a rolling stone, "never stayed long enough to wear out the seat of his trousers at any one organ console". In his last years he turned to cinema playing up the North, at the Newcastle and Grosvenor Cinemas, Glasgow (1925). He wrote little music, but his best known organ pieces are “Grand Festival March, Illogan” (1896), “Fantasia on an Easter Hymn” (1897), "Coronation March" (1911), "Royal Air Force March" (c. 1920 - possibly unpublished), "Fanfare of Trumpets" and “Andantino in D”. He also has a few published songs (1891–97). These include "A song of the bells" and "Liberty". An organ and violin duo also exists. Henry Wood says that he was an “exceedingly gifted organist and violinist . . . . . and a tremendous worker. He taught me to play Bach’s organ preludes and fugues. His phrasing and registration of the “great G minor” and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor were masterly.” H.C.Tonking's eccentricity deprived him of many friends, yet he was kind-hearted and often refused to take a pupil’s fee when he knew it could not be afforded. Wood composed the well known “Sailors’ Hornpipe” under the pseudonym Klenovsky. This was an inspirational orchestral arrangement conceived after watching H.C. Tonking's tremendous mastery of the pedal-board in playing the hornpipe at a terrific rate, as a solo. Wood's composition was performed at the “PROMS” on 05-10-1929, three years after H.C's death. Tonking died in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1926. References 1863 births 1926 deaths English classical organists British male organists English classical composers People from Camborne Musicians from Cornwall Male classical organists