Henry Stoning

Henry Stoning was an English composer active around 1600, that is, in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Anthony Wood described him as a notable musician of that period, although no precise details of his life are known with certainty.

His surviving output consists of pieces for five-part consort: a Miserere, a Browning and an In Nomine, which are found in British manuscripts. There is also a simpler In Nomine for four voices, copied in Oxford. All of them were edited in 1979 in the Musica Britannica series.

A Latin Magnificat in alternatim verses is tentatively attributed to him, although the authorship may belong to Oliver Stoning, a cleric who died around 1563 and was associated with Lichfield and Windsor, who may have been his father. For this reason, his catalogue and biography remain uncertain.