 One of his ballets, "The Haunted Ballroom" (1934), became popular and was revived several times, and the new overture that he prepared for Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore" in 1919 became the standard version.Born in Winchester, Hampshire, Toye was the younger son of Arlingham James Toye and his wife Alice Fayrer "née" Coates.Toye's father was a housemaster at Winchester College, who for many years ran a music society for the boys.