William Henry Husk

HUSK, William Henry. b. London, 4 November 1814; d. London, 12 August 1887. Husk was a Lawyers’ Clerk to a firm of solicitors, Manning and Dalston. He was a leading musical scholar, Librarian of the Sacred Harmonic Society (1852-82), and contributor of many articles to George Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1878-1890). He may well have been the joint editor with William Sandys* of A Garland of Christmas Carols (1861) whose editor is given as the otherwise unknown ‘Joshua Sylvester’. The same printer published Husk’s Songs of the Nativity (1867/8). Sandys refers to a collection of manuscript and printed material that he had amassed over thirty years and Husk may have had access to...