Sheet music by Humphrey Procter-Gregg

Humphrey Procter-Gregg (universally known to students and colleagues as "P-G") was born on 31 July 1895 at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland. He went to school at King William’s College on the Isle of Man, and was Organ Scholar at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, where he read history, graduating Mus.B. and M.A.. At the Royal College of Music he was Opera Scholar and studied composition under Stanford, and gained a studentship at the opera house of La Scala, Milan.

He became Opera Manager to the Royal College of Music, and was at various times stage manager and producer to the Covent Garden Opera Company, the British National Opera Company, and the Carl Rosa Opera Company, also working in a similar capacity at the Royal Manchester College of Music and the BBC Opera Section. In 1936 he became Reader in Music at the University of Manchester, founding the Music Department, and in 1954 became the university’s first Professor of Music.