Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HENDERSON, Andrew (son of John Henderson of Shetland). b. Liverpool 10 Jany. 1800; in the navy 1813–16; commanded ships for Palmer & Co.; formed with Lord William Bentinck and Auber the East India steam navigation co. and the Assam co.; commanded the India 1840 first steamer that went round the Cape; conveyed first mails between Calcutta and Suez; A.I.C.E. 1840; invented a bow and stern rudder. d. 20 Feb. 1868. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx, 472–75 (1870).
HENDERSON, Rev. Anketell Matthew. b. Anketell grove, Monaghan, Ireland 1820; Wesleyan minister in Ireland 1841–52; Congregational minister at Cork 1852–6, at Claremont chapel, Pentonville, London 1856–65; wrote articles in the Patriot, the British Quarterly and the London Quarterly Reviews 1856–65; president of Congregational coll. Melbourne, Australia 1865 to death; pastor of Collins’ st. ch. 1866 to death, built a new ch. at cost of £23,000 which was opened free of debt 1868; an eloquent preacher; preached in Theatre Royal during rebuilding of his church; edited The preacher’s manual, By S. J. Sturtevant 1866. d. in house of his nephew John Garvin, Toronto, Canada 23 June 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 89; Congregational Year Book (1877) 374–76; J. Jones’ Sermon on death of A. M. Henderson (1876).
HENDERSON, Charles Cooper (younger son of John Henderson, amateur artist). b. Abbey house, Chertsey 14 June 1803; ed. at Winchester; studied for the bar; painted sporting pictures and sketches, horses and coaching scenes, many of which were engraved and published by Messrs. Fores, London; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1840–8. d. Lower Halliford-on-Thames 21 Aug. 1877.
HENDERSON, Rev. Ebenezer (youngest son of George Henderson, agricultural labourer). b. The Linn, parishes of Saline and Dunfermline 17 Nov. 1784; clock and watch maker 1794, kept cows, then a boot and shoemaker 1799; ed. at Robert Haldane’s seminary, Edinburgh 1803–5; engaged founding Bible societies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Russia 1805 etc.; minister at Elsinore 1806–7, at Gothenburg 1807; formed first Congregational ch. in Sweden 6 Oct. 1811; visited Iceland and distributed Bibles 1814; at St. Petersburg printed the Bible in 10 dialects 1816, resided in Russia to 1825; tutor at Gosport, Hoxton and Highbury colleges 1825–50; minister Sheen Vale independent chapel, Mortlake, Surrey 1852–3; author of Iceland, a residence in that island 2 vols. 1818; The Book of the Twelve minor Prophets translated 1845; The Vaudois, a tour to the valleys of Piedmont 1845; The Book of Isaiah translated 1840, 2 ed. 1857 and many other works. d. Mortlake 16 May 1858. Memoir of E. Henderson by Thalia S. Henderson (1859), portrait.
HENDERSON, Ebenezer (son of John Henderson, watch and clock maker). b. Dunfermline, Feb. 1809; made an orrery and an astronomical clock 1827; clerk to his brother a tanner at St. Helens 1829; curator Liverpool Astronomical instit.; member of 13 scientific societies in England, LLD. of an American coll.; F.R.A.S.; received freedom of Elgin 1850 and of Dunfermline 1859; made a combination of wheels to show and check sidereal time 1850; restored old market cross of Dunfermline 1868 and queen Margaret’s stone; author of An historical treatise on horology 1836; A treatise on astronomy 1843, 3 ed. 1848; Life of James Ferguson 1867, 2 ed. 1870; The annals of Dunfermline and vicinity 1879. d. Muckhart, Perthshire 2 Nov. 1879.
HENDERSON, George (son of Capt. Henderson of 4 foot). b. Newton, Aberdeenshire 4 June 1783; 2 lieut. R.E. March 1800; served in Ceylon 1803–12, in the Peninsula 1812–14; lieut.-col. R.E. 30 Dec. 1824, retired from the service 9 April 1825; general superintendent London and South Western railway co. 1830, a director to death; A.I.C.E. May 1837; chairman London Equitable gas co., and Southampton gas co. to death. d. 11 Anglesea place, Southampton 21 April 1855. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 100–101 (1856).
HENDERSON, George. b. 1785 or 1786; entered navy 1 March 1794; captain 1 Aug. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860. d. Middle Deal, Kent 23 Jany. 1864 aged 78. O’Byrne p. 493.
HENDERSON, George Augustus. Ensign 2 foot 1 Oct. 1794; inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 24 Aug. 1815 to 10 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 59 foot 27 April 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1836. d. Kempsey, Worcs. 7 Sep. 1857 aged 78.
HENDERSON, Gilbert. b. Colquitt st. Liverpool 8 Aug. 1797; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; a leader on the northern circuit; recorder of Liverpool 24 July 1843 to death. d. Hyde park sq. London 5 Dec. 1861. The Liverpool Courier 7 Dec. 1861 p. 5.
HENDERSON, James (son of a labourer). b. Scotland 1829; worked on a farm for 50s. a year 1843–5; butler to Mr. Grant Duff 1847–52; ed. at Surgeons’ hall, Edin. 1855–8, surgeon 1858; M.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 1859; medical missionary Shanghai, China 1860–5, in charge of the Chinese hospital 1860–5; author of Shanghai Hygiene, or hints for preservation of health in China 1863; edited Reports of the Chinese hospital, Shanghai 1860–63. d. Nagasaki, Japan 30 July 1865. Memorials of J. Henderson (1868), portrait; Good Words (1878) 784–90.
HENDERSON, J. Scott. b. Berwickshire 1838; a banker at Paisley; edited the Ayr Observer some years, the Times and Mirror at Bristol, the Edinburgh Courant 1867–72 and the Bullionist in London; translated H. C. L. Von Sybel’s Clerical policy in the nineteenth century 1875. d. Oaklands, St. Mark’s road, Notting hill, London 18 Sep. 1883.
HENDERSON, John (son of John Henderson, gardener at Brechin castle). b. Brechin 14 June 1804; carpenter Brechin; architect Edinburgh making a special study of gothic; designed and built many episcopal and other churches in Scotland 1831–65; Trinity college, Glenalmond, Perth with its decorated chapel is his best work 1847. d. 7 Greenhill park, Edinburgh 27 June 1865. Dictionary of Architecture, iv, 43.
HENDERSON, John (son of Robert Henderson, merchant and shipowner). b. Borrowstounness, Linlithgowshire 1780; drysalter Glasgow; East India merchant London; gave from £30,000 to £40,000 a year to religious and charitable schemes; maintained several religious newspapers; spent £4000 in sending copy of a publication to all railway servants to tell them of the sinfulness of Sunday labour; stopped for sometime Sunday railway travelling in Scotland; maintained mission churches in Glasgow; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845. d. Park Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1 May 1867. Glasgow Daily Herald 2 May 1867 p. 2.
HENDERSON, John (son of John Henderson the actor). b. London 1822; apprenticed to Sanders the equestrian; performed as an equestrian artiste in every capital in Europe; returned to England 1862, equestrian director 1862 to death. (m. 1843 Agnes Selina Hengler). d. Ipswich 10 May 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 3 July. Illustrated sporting news, ii, 428 (1862), portrait, iv, 641 (1865), portrait; Era 19 May 1867 p. 14 col. 3.
HENDERSON, John (brother of Charles Cooper Henderson 1803–77). b. Adelphi ter. London 1797; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; studied for the bar; spent his life in collecting works of art, which he kept at his residence 3 Montague st. Bloomsbury, London; F.S.A. 11 March 1858; left to Univ. of Oxford his Greek and Roman vases and Egyptian antiquities, to British Museum his water-colour drawings, enamels, porcelain, glass, metal work, arms and MSS., to National Gallery some water-colour drawings and paintings. d. 3 Montague st. London 20 Nov. 1878. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 202–13; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, viii, 105 (1881); Academy 30 Nov. 1878 p. 531; Works of art in pottery, glass and metal in collection of J. Henderson 1868.
HENDERSON, John (son of Gilbert Henderson). b. Durham 2 May 1811; ed. Durham gram. sch.; carpet manufacturer and coal owner, Durham; M.P. Durham city 1864–74; M.P. Durham 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void. d. Bournemouth 4 April 1884. Times 10 April 1884 p. 7.
HENDERSON, John Irving. b. Dumfriesshire 1781; in R.N.; advocate of the Scotch bar 1812; sheriff substitute of Dundee district, of Forfarshire 1832, resigned 1860. d. Blackness crescent, Dundee 24 Dec. 1860; his daughter erected schools to his memory which were opened by the Bishop of Brechin 2 Aug. 1862 but shortly afterwards finally closed. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 193; Dundee Advertiser 25 Dec. 1860 p. 3.
HENDERSON, Peter. b. Pathhead near Edinburgh 25 June 1823; apprentice to a gardener 1839; went to U.S. America 1843; greenhouse horticulturist Jersey City, and seedsman in New York, the largest business of its kind in America; author of Gardening for profit 1867, circulated 100,000 copies; Practical floriculture 1869; Gardening for pleasure 1875; Henderson’s Handbook of plants 1881; Garden and farm topics 1884; How the farm pays 1884. d. Jersey City Heights, Jany. 1890. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 164 (1887).
HENDERSON, Peter Lindsay. b. Glasgow 1831, ed. at high school there; master in the merchant service; owner and manager of a line of steamers between Copenhagen and Germany 1857; established whale fisheries in Iceland, using steamships with harpoon guns; proprietor of the Greenwich and Poplar horse ferry; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871. d. Woodfield, Hendon 20 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiv, 341–2 (1881).
HENDERSON, William (4 son of William Henderson, sheriff substitute of Caithness). b. Thurso 17 Jany. 1810; ed. at univ. of Edin., M.D. 1831; physician fever hospital, Edin. 1832; pathologist Royal infirmary, resigned 1845; made clinical studies on the heart and blood vessels 1835–7; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1838; professor of general pathology, Univ. of Edin. 1842, resigned 1869; adopted homœopathy 1845 when professor Syme, Sir John Forbes and others withdrew from associating with him, and he was expelled from the Med. Chir. Soc. of Edin. in Dec. 1851, wrote many works on homœopathy in reply to his adversaries 1845–53; author also of Letter to lord provost on charges against Queen’s college 1840; A dictionary of names of persons and places in Old and New Testaments 1869. d. 19 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 1 April 1872. Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 451 (1884); British Journal of Homœopathy, xxx, 617–23 (1872).
HENDERSON, William. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 26 May 1858. d. 1875.
HENDERSON, William. b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 5 Aug. 1831; compositor with firm of T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh; a type-music printer with Novello, Ewer & Co. London 1860; partner with James Cossar Rait at 30 Penton st. Pentonville, and also with Montague Spalding, as type music printers 1861, they acquired a world-wide reputation, they moved to Winsley st. Oxford st. 1864, then to Berners st., afterwards to 3 Marylebone lane and Dyott house, Holborn; a composer of some ability. d. suddenly at Ipswich 22 May 1891. Stationery Trades Journal 30 May 1891 p. 254.
HENDERSON, William Wilmott. Entered navy May 1799, captain 9 Oct. 1815, R.A. 21 March 1851; commander in chief on south east coast of America 19 July 1851 to 1 May 1854; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840. d. at sea returning to England 12 July 1854.
HENDREN, Most Rev. Joseph William. b. Birmingham 19 Oct. 1791; received Franciscan habit 2 Aug. 1806; a teacher at Baddesley school 1812–16; priest 28 Sep. 1815; a teacher at Perthyre 1816–18, at Aston 1818–23; president Baddesley academy 1823–26; served mission at Abergavenny 1826–39; confessor and spiritual director to the nuns and pensioners of Franciscan convent at Taunton Lodge 1839–48; vicar apostolic of western district, and bishop of Uranopolis in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated at Clifton by bishop Ullathorne 10 Sep. 1848; translated to newly created See of Clifton 29 Sep. 1850; translated to See of Nottingham 27 June 1851, resigned 26 Dec. 1852; bishop of Martyropolis in partibus 25 Feb. 1853, resided at Birmingham, May 1853 to death. d. Birmingham 14 Nov. 1866. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 266–7 (1887); Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 317, 333, 357, 406, 432 (1877).
HENDRICKEN, Most Rev. Thomas Francis. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 5 May 1827; ed. at St. Kyran’s coll. Kilkenny and at Maynooth; ordained in Dublin, R.C. priest 29 April 1853; pastor at Winsted, Conn., U.S. America 1854; pastor at Waterbury 1855–72 where he built the church of the Immaculate Conception; Pius ix. created him D.D. 1868; first bishop of new diocese of Providence, R.I., consecrated 28 April 1872, built a cathedral and an episcopal residence. d. Providence 11 June 1886. Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 165 (1887).
HENEAGE, Edward (2 son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton, Lincolnshire, d. 1833). b. 24 July 1802; M.P. for Great Grimsby 7 Jany. 1835 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Grimsby 8 July 1852. d. Stag’s End, Hemel Hempstead 25 June 1880.
HENEAGE, George Fieschi (brother of preceding). b. 22 Nov. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826; M.P. Great Grimsby 1826–30; M.P. Lincoln 1831–4 and 1852–62; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1839. d. Hainton 11 May 1868.
HENFREY, Arthur (3 son of Henry Antram Henfrey). b. Aberdeen 1 Nov. 1819; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on botany at Middlesex and St. George’s hospitals 1847; professor of botany King’s coll. 1853; F.L.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; edited The Botanical Gazette 3 vols. 1849–51, the Photographic Journal, vols. 1, 2, 1853; author of Outlines of structural and physiological botany 1847; The vegetation of Europe, its conditions and causes 1852; An elementary course of botany 1857, 4 ed. 1884, besides many translations from the German and other books. d. 12 Heathfield ter. Turnham green, Middlesex 7 Sep. 1859. Proc. Royal Soc. x, 18 (1860).
HENFREY, Henry William (eld. son of preceding). b. London 5 July 1852; ed. at Brighton coll.; member Numismatic soc. 1868, on council; contributed 12 papers to Numismatic Chronicle; member British Archæol. Assoc. 1870 and wrote in its proceedings; author of A guide to the study of English coins 1870, 2 ed. 1885; Numismata Cromwelliana 1877; edited Henfrey’s Journal, St. Albans 1864. d. Widmore cottage, Bromley, Kent 31 July 1881. Numismatic Chronicle, ii, 21–2 (1882).
HENGLER, Edward Henry (son of Henry Hengler, tight rope dancer of Vauxhall gardens). b. 1819; tight rope dancer; kept a riding school with his brother John Milton Hengler at Elizabeth st. Pembroke place, Liverpool. d. Liverpool 8 Jany. 1865. Era 15 Jany. 1865 p. 14.
HENGLER, Frederick Charles (brother of the preceding). b. Cambridge 1820; taught the circus business by his father; violin and trumpet player in James Wild’s theatre, Bradford 1841; business manager of Price and Powell’s circus, afterwards purchased the circus with which he travelled; built circuses in Liverpool 1857, Glasgow and Dublin 1863, Hull 1866, Bristol 1867, Birmingham 1868 and London 1871; introduced spectacular pieces played by children; taught riding to several members of the royal family; a great horse tamer and exhibitor of trained animals. d. Cambridge house, 27 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead, Middlesex 28 Sep. 1887. bur. Pauntley, Gloucestershire, left £59,665 2s. 5d. Frost’s Circus Life (1876) 48 etc.; The Era 15 Jany. 1865 and 1 Oct. 1887; Judy 13 Dec. 1882 p. 280, portrait.
Note.—His eldest son and successor Frederick Charles Hengler was b. 4 Aug. 1855 and d. 7 May 1889.
HENLAND, Henry. b. Germany 1778; scientific dealer in minerals in London 1807, having purchased Old Humphrey’s collection; supplied the British Museum with greater part of their collection of minerals; formed a mineralogical cabinet for C. H. Turner of Rooks Nest, Surrey, an account of which was printed in 3 volumes with an atlas of 83 plates of forms of crystals; foreign secretary Geological soc. some years. d. Hastings 16 Nov. 1856.
HENLEY, Joseph Warner (only son of Joseph Henley, merchant, London). b. Putney, Surrey 3 March 1793; ed. at Fulham and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1834, hon. D.C.L. 1854; in his father’s office 1815–17; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1841–78; president of board of trade 27 Feb. to 17 Dec. 1852 and 25 Feb. 1858 to March 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; author of A Conservative’s opinion on the contagious diseases act. Nottingham 1878. d. Waterperry, Oxfordshire 8 Dec. 1884. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series (1859), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; St. James’ Mag. March 1870 pp. 771–4, portrait.
HENLEY, William Thomas. b. Midhurst, Sussex 1814; a leather dresser, a light porter 1829 and a dock labourer; a philosophical instrument maker 1838; assisted Sir C. Wheatstone and made his electrical apparatus 1836; took out 13 patents for improvements in electric telegraphs, &c. 1848–71; founded the British and Irish magnetic telegraph co.; made 14,000 miles of submarine cables; made electric light apparatus 1849; had manufactories at North Woolwich 1859 and iron works and colleries in Wales employing 2000 men and making a profit of £80,000 a year; failed for £500,000 in 1874; director of Henley’s Telegraph works 1880 to death. d. Chesterton house, Plaistow, Essex 13 Dec. 1882. bur. Kensal green 18 Dec. Times 15 Dec. 1882 p. 5; The Electrician 23 Dec. 1882 p. 136.
HENN, Jonathan (2 son of William Henn of Paradise, co. Clare, master of Irish court of chancery, d. 1822). b. 1789; ed. at Lucan and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; called to Irish bar 1811; went Connaught circuit, joined Munster circuit; defended D. O’Connell in the Repeal prosecutions 1843; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; engaged for the Crown in the case of John Mitchell 1849; assistant barrister for co. of Donegal; retired from practice about 1850; a brilliant orator. d. Clifton villa, Bray, co. Dublin 22 July 1873. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 225–31; Law mag. and law review, ii, 233–35 (1857).
HENN, Thomas Rice (3 son of Thomas Rice Henn, Q.C., recorder of Galway). b. Dublin 2 Nov. 1849; ed. at Windermere coll. and R. Milit. acad. Woolwich 1866; lieut. Bombay engineers 7 July 1869, commanded 2 company in Afghan war 1880; present in Bolan pass and at Candahar; brigade major R.E. 1879–80; killed while covering the retreat of the army at the battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, window to his memory placed in Rochester cath. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign. Biog. Division (1882) 107–9, portrait.
HENN, William (brother of Jonathan Henn, d. 1873). Called to Irish bar 1808; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1822, master in chancery 1822 to death. d. Dublin 8 March 1857. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 224.
HENNEDY, Roger. b. Carrickfergus near Belfast, Aug. 1809; a block cutter for calico printers; learnt to draw on stone and made designs for textiles; a teacher of botany at Glasgow 1848; in business with a partner 1851–7; professor of botany Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1863 to death; author of The Clydesdale Flora, plants and ferns of the Clyde district, Glasgow 1865, 4 ed. 1878. d. Whitehall near Bothwell, Lanarkshire 22 Oct. 1877.
HENNEN, John (son of John Hennen, M.D., d. Gibraltar 3 Nov. 1828). M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.D. Edin. 1821; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1843; in medical department of army 1824; physician R. Milit. asylum, Southampton 1828–40; in practice at 24 Upper Southwick st. Hyde park, London 1847; F. Med. and Chir. soc. 1844, librarian 1848–50, compiled an Index to the Society’s Transactions 1851; translated C. J. Nitzsch’ System of christian doctrine 1849; edited his father’s Sketches of medical topography of the Mediterranean 1830. d. Tunbridge Wells, June 1871 aged 71. Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. vii, 38 (1875).
HENNESSY, William Maunsell. b. Castle Gregory, co. Kerry 1829; resided for some time in U.S. America; in the Lunatic asylum office 1855; wrote for Irish newspapers; chief clerk Public Record office, Dublin 1868, assist. deputy keeper 1886 to his death; Todd professor R. Irish acad. 1822–4; the best Irish scholar of his day; contributed to The Academy, La Revue Celtique, etc.; edited Chronicon Scotorum. A chronicle of Irish affairs 1866; The annals of Loch Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs 1871; J. Graves’ Pedigree of the White Knight 1881; J. C. Mangan’s The poets and poetry of Munster 1883 and many other works. d. 71 Pembroke road, Dublin 13 Jany. 1889. Academy 26 Jany. 1889 p. 56.
HENNIKER, John Henniker-Major, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Henniker 1777–1832, who in 1822 assumed additional surname of Major). b. Stratford Green, Essex 3 Feb. 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 28 May 1824; M.P. for East Suffolk 1832–47 and 1856 to 13 July 1866 when created Baron Hartismere of Hartismere, co. Suffolk; sheriff of Suffolk 1853; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852. d. 6 Grafton st. Bond St. London 16 April 1870. I.L.N. xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.
HENNIKER, Aldborough (eld. son of Aldborough Brydges John Henniker of Catcott, Somerset 1797–1880). b. 6 July 1821; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister G.I. 1 May 1844, bencher 7 July 1874, treasurer 1877 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1874; member of council of legal education. d. 26 Leinster sq. Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1880 from injuries received by falling down the staircase at King’s Cross station of Metropolitan railway.
HENNIKER, Rev. Robert (brother of the preceding). b. 1 June 1833; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., Johnson’s Theol. sch. 1856, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Michael, Alnwick 1858–60; P.C. of South Charlton near Alnwick 1860–69; head master of Rossall school 1869–75; V. of Frocester near Stroud 1875 to death; author of Stories from English history for young children 1861; Trifles for travellers 1864. d. Frocester vicarage 1 Feb. 1880.
HENNING, John (son of Samuel Henning, carpenter). b. Paisley 2 May 1771; carpenter; modeller of wax figures 1800; a modeller at Glasgow; studied in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1802; went to London 1811; made models of the Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes with the missing parts restored 1811–23; made models in relief of cartoons of Raphael; exhibited 17 sculptures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. 1816–52; executed busts of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Mrs. Siddons; a founder of Soc. of British Artists 1847; presented with freedom of Paisley 1846; executed the relievi on the gate at Hyde park corner and those on the Athenæum club. d. 17 Lower Belgrave place, Pimlico, London 8 April 1851. bur. St. Pancras cemet. Finchley.
HENNINGSEN, Charles Frederick (son of a Swede). b. England 1815; in Carlist army in Spain, lieut.-col. 1834; served in Russian army in Circassia; commander of fortress of Comorn under Kossuth in Hungary 1849; commander of the artillery under William Walker in Nicaragua, America 1856, major general; colonel of 3 regt. of Wise’s brigade in Confederate army and served in Virginia; superintended construction of first Minié rifle made in U.S. America; author of Revelations of Russia. Paris 1845; The most striking events of a twelve months’ campaign with Zumalacarregui 2 vols. 1836; The White slave 3 vols. 1845; Personal recollections of Nicaragua, and other works. d. Washington, D.C. 14 June 1877. Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 169 (1887).
HENRADE, Mary (3 dau. of Thomas Young of Melbourne, Australia). b. 1842; appeared in original cast of Our American Cousin at Haymarket theatre, London 11 Nov. 1861; played at Lyceum theatre, Oct. 1864, and at chief west end theatres. (m. Stephen Demetrius Pitzipios a Greek merchant and general agent at 17 Throgmorton st. London). d. Duncroft house, 3 Grove end road, London 11 March 1876 aged 34. Era 19 March 1876 p. 10 col. 4.
HENRY, Alexander. b. Loughbrickland, co. Down 1783; came from U.S. America and settled in Palace st. Manchester as an American house doing an export trade in cotton and woollen goods 1804; crossed the Atlantic 30 times; opened houses at Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast; member of Anti-Corn law league 1838; M.P. South Lancashire 20 Dec. 1847 to June 1852; entertained Kossuth 1850; lost his sight many years before his death. d. Harrogate 4 Oct. 1862. London Society (Nov. 1880) 446–62; Hunt’s Merchant’s Mag. xix, 63–67 (1848), xxxiv, 36–45 (1856).
HENRY, Chaplin, assumed name of Henry Charles Stroud. b. 1826; bookseller; had a fine bass voice; attached to choir of Surrey chapel, Blackfriars road, London; an early member of Henry Leslie’s choir 1856; chief bass at Foundling chapel; a singer at the banquets at the City of London halls; author of O write me a song of my father, Ballad 1869. d. Peckham 12 Jany. 1888. Musical Times 1 Feb. 1888 p. 92.
HENRY, George Fitzgerald (brother of Sir Thomas Henry 1807–76). b. 1827; entered service of P. and O.S.N. Co. 1847, commander on the China line, superintendent of service at Bombay; connected with Bank of Bombay and the Port Trust board; member of the Bombay corporation; thrown out of his carriage at Bombay and killed 23 Feb. 1877. The Graphic 5 May 1877 pp. 407, 408, portrait.
HENRY, James (1 son of Robert Henry, woollen draper). b. Dublin 13 Dec. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1832; a physician in Dublin with a large practice 1822–45 charging a five shilling fee instead of the usual guinea; from 1841 the study of Virgil became the object of his life, began walking through Europe with his wife and daughter making Virgilian researches 1846; wife Anne Jane dau. of John Patton d. Arco, Tyrol and was cremated; crossed the Alps 17 times; dau. Katharine Olivia b. 20 Nov. 1830 assistant to her father in his travels and studies, d. 7 Dec. 1872; author of Miliaria accuratius descripta. Dublin 1832; The Eneis, books i and ii rendered into English blank Iambic by J. H. 1845; Notes of a twelve years’ voyage of discovery in the first six books of the Eneis. Dresden 1853; Poems, chiefly philosophical. Dresden 1856, with a portrait; Thalia Petasata, a foot journey from Carlsruhe to Bassano. Dresden 1859; Æneidea, remarks on the Æneis, with collation of principal editions 2 vols. 1873–9. d. Dalkey lodge, Dalkey near Dublin 14 July 1876. The Academy 12 Aug. 1876 pp. 162–3.
HENRY, John. Entered Madras army 1800; col. 51 Madras N.I. 15 March 1842 to death; L.G. 3 Aug. 1855. d. Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1860.
HENRY, Michael (son of a merchant, d. April 1840). b. Kennington, London 19 Feb. 1830; ed. at City of London sch. 1840–44; assisted in editing Mechanics’ Mag. 1846–57; a patent agent in London 1857 to death; edited Jewish Chronicle 1868 to death; founded General Benevolent Assoc. 1847, hon. sec. to death; hon. sec. Stepney Jewish schools to death; A.I.C.E.; author of The Inventor’s almanac 1858; A defence of the present patent laws 1866; his clothes caught fire when he was in his office 68 Fleet St., d. from the burns at 6 Argyle sq. Euston sq. London 16 June 1875. bur. Willesden cemet. 21 June. Jewish Chronicle 25 June 1875 pp. 205–6; Times 18 June 1875 p. 13, 19 June p. 7.
HENRY, Sir Thomas (eld. son of David Henry of Stephens green, Dublin, government contractor). b. Dublin 1807; ed. at Von Feinaigles sch. and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; magistrate at Lambeth st. police court near Whitechapel, April 1840, removed to Bow st. 1846, chief mag. at Bow st. 6 July 1864 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 30 Nov. 1864. d. 23 Hanover sq. London 16 June 1876. I.L.N. 14 March 1846 p. 172, portrait, 24 June 1876 p. 623, 1 July pp. 3, 4, portrait; Graphic, xiii, 614, 628 (1876), portrait.
HENRY, Walter. b. Donegal, Ireland 1 Jany. 1791; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; hospital assistant in 66 foot April 1811, served in the Peninsula to 1814, in Nepaulese war 1816–7, in St. Helena 1817–21, prepared bulletin of post mortem appearance of body of Napoleon; in Canada 1827–41; staff surgeon 1839, inspector general of hospitals in Canada 1852, retired 1856; wrote in periodicals under pseudonyms of Miles, Piscator, and Scrutator; author of Trifles from my Portfolio, or recollections of 29 years military service, By a Staff Surgeon. Quebec 2 vols. 1839; Events of a military life 2 vols. 1843. d. Belleville, Upper Canada 27 June 1860. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 182–3.
HENRY, William Alexander. b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 30 Dec. 1816; barrister N.S. Nov. 1840; Q.C. 1849; member of Nova Scotia Assembly 1840 for many years; mayor of Halifax; solicitor general 3 times; provincial secretary and attorney general; puisne judge of supreme court of Canada, Oct. 1875 to death. d. Ottawa 3 May 1888.
HENSLOW, Rev. John Stevens (1 son of John Prentis Henslow, solicitor, Enfield, d. 1854). b. Rochester, Kent 6 Feb. 1796; ed. at free gram. sch. Rochester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.L.S. 1818; F.G.S. 1819; founded with Adam Sedgwick, the Cambridge Phil. Soc. 15 Nov. 1819; prof. of mineralogy at Cam. 1822 to March 1827; P.C. of St. Mary the Less, Cam. 1824–32; prof. of botany at Cam. June 1825 to death, his enthusiasm rendered botany popular, Darwin and others were his pupils; V. of Cholsey, Berks. 1832–7; R. of Hitcham, Suffolk 1837 to death; established study of botany in his schools; for tithe dinners substituted excursions; discovered beds of phosphatic nodules in the Suffolk Crag 1843 much used for manure; a founder of the Ipswich museum 1848; author of Catalogue of British plants 1829, 2 ed. 1835; The principles of descriptive and physiological botany 1836; An account of Roman antiquities found at Rougham, Bury St. Edmunds 1843; A dictionary of botanical terms 1856 and other books. d. Hitcham rectory house 16 May 1861, his collections divided between Ipswich, Cambridge and Kew museums. Jenyns’ Memoir of J. S. Henslow (1862), portrait; Popular Science Monthly, iii, 159–72 (1873), portrait; Longman’s Mag. June 1883 pp. 147–59.
HENSMAN, Rev. John (son of Thomas Hensman of Birmingham). b. Bedford 22 Sep. 1780; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., 9 wr. 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; fellow of his coll. 1801; C. to Rev. Charles Simeon at Cam. 1801; C. of Wraxall, Somerset 1803–9; C. in charge of Clifton parish ch. Bristol 1809–22; C. of Dowry chapel, Clifton 1822–30; incumb. of Trinity ch. Hotwells 1830–44; P.C. of Christ Church, Clifton 1844–7; R. of Clifton 1847 to death; St. James’ chapel, Clifton commonly known as the Hensman memorial church was consecrated Dec. 1862; hon. canon of Bristol cath. 1858; well known member of evangelical party; prime mover in building 4 churches in Clifton. d. Clifton hill 23 April 1864. Bristol Times 30 April 1864 p. 6.