I just did a search of past mudcat threads and the name has been mentioned several times as writing the music for July Wakes. Nobody appeared to actually know him, but there are new members all the time, so maybe you will have better luck now.
One suggestion made was to try e-mailing Mike Harding's folk programme on the chance that Harding might have known him at the time he recorded July Wakes.
Quack!
GtD.