Editing Eric Fenby (section)

==Later career==
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After Delius's death Fenby entered the employ of the music publisher [[Boosey & Hawkes]]. He was contracted to write the score for [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Jamaica Inn (film)|Jamaica Inn]]'', (from [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s [[Jamaica Inn (novel)|novel]]), but his film career was interrupted by the [[Second World War]]. After joining the [[Royal Artillery]] he was transferred to the Education Corps at [[Bulford Camp|Bulford]], where he conducted the Southern Command Orchestra. He was later commissioned to run [[Royal Army Education Corps]] courses in [[Lancashire]].

Having left the Catholic Church, in 1944 Fenby married Rowena C.T. Marshall (1914-1998), the daughter of a Scarborough vicar. They had a son, Roger, and a daughter, Ruth.

After the war Fenby founded the music department of the [[North Riding of Yorkshire|North Riding]] Training College. He was artistic director for the [[Bradford]] Delius Festival in 1962. He then became Professor of Harmony at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] in London from 1964 until 1977.

In his final years Fenby returned to Catholicism and moved back to Scarborough where he died approaching his 91st birthday. He is buried with his wife Rowena in the churchyard of St Laurence's Church, [[Scalby, North Yorkshire|Scalby]], a village on the north edge of Scarborough.