Background
Husk was born in London on 4 November 1814.
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William Husk
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Career
From 1833 to 1886 he was clerk to a firm of solicitors. As an amateur musician, taught by his godfather John Bernard Sale, he joined the Sacred Harmonic Society two years after its foundation in 1832. And in 1853 he was appointed honorary librarian.
Husk held this post until the dissolution of the Society in 1882.
Its library went to the Royal College of Music. Husk died, after a fortnight"s illness, on 12 August 1887.
