[3] In March 1906 "Long Slip", the cricket writer of the Otago Witness, wrote: "Monaghan is now probably the best bowler in New Zealand, his swerve being a decided and puzzling one.

[7] The former New Zealand captain Thomas Cobcroft thought that, apart from the Australian Tom McKibbin, Monaghan was the most difficult bowler he ever faced: "just as you had made your stroke to drive him, his ball would swing and drop suddenly.

[9] Monaghan was educated at Wellington College, where he was head prefect in 1904,[10] and Victoria University, where he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts (with "second-class honours in mental science") in 1910.

[12] He was a vicar at Richmond in Christchurch,[13] in Ross on the West Coast, in Pahiatua in the Wairarapa, and was later Archdeacon of Timaru and of Rangitikei.

[18] Their sons David, also a cricketer,[19] and Gerald died on active service in World War II.