Henry Wentworth Monk
1827–96
Canadian farmer, social reformer, and author. Educated at Christ’s Hospital, London, 1834–42. Went to Palestine in 1853 and worked at a Jewish farm colony until 1857. Became acquainted with Holman Hunt and John Ruskin. Wrote a number of works on his interpretation on the biblical Book of Revelation. Lived in Canada and at times in the US and London.
Sources
CDEL
DCB
Lambert [1947]
Bibliography
CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.
DCB: Dictionary of Canadian biography. Edited by George W. Brown et al. 13 vols. and index to first 12 vols. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. 1966–94.
Lambert, Richard Stanton. [1947.] For the time is at hand: an account of the prophecies of Henry Wentworth Monk of Ottawa, friend of the Jews, and pioneer of world peace. London: Andrew Melrose.
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