William Henry Monk (1823-1889) be­came a sing­ing teach­er at King’s Coll­ege in 1874. In 1876, he be­came a teach­er at the Na­tion­al Train­ing School for Mu­sic. In 1878, he start­ed teach­ing at Bed­ford Coll­ege. In ad­di­tion, he was mu­sic di­rect­or for al­most four de­cades at St. Mat­thi­as, Stoke New­ing­ton, Lon­don, and was the first mu­sic­al ed­it­or for Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, the his­tor­ic hym­nal which sold 60 mil­lion co­pies.