Sir C Hubert H Parry (1848-1918) was Director of the Royal College of Music from 1884 and in 1900 succeeded Stainer as Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. Parry played the organ a great deal as a youth, but never pursued a career as an organist. He was not attracted to the life of the cathedral musician, but wrote music for that repertoire. Along with his close friend Dr Emily Daymond he was a regular visitor to the Temple Church in Walford Davies's time. Parry's music was firmly established in the repertory during his own lifetime at many cathedrals and churches.