as a teacher of composition stanford had a great deal of influence on many british composers. he sometimes had a bad temper, but he was also very good at showing students how they could improve their music. composers such as charles wood, constant lambert, vaughan williams, holst, samuel coleridge-taylor, rutland boughton, john ireland, frank bridge, george butterworth, arthur bliss, herbert howells, arthur benjamin and ernest j. moeran all learned a great deal from him, and continued to admire him.