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HENCHY, David O’Connor. b. Rutland sq. west, Dublin 1810; M.P. for co. Kildare 1852–59. d. 1 Dec. 1876.

HENDERSON, Alexander. b. Aberdeenshire 1780; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 12 Sep. 1803; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1808; resided at 6 Curzon st. London; published A sketch of the revolutions of medical science by P. J. G. Cabanis, translated from the French 1806; An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore the fasting woman of Tutbury 1813; The history of ancient and modern wines 1824. d. Caskieben, Aberdeenshire 16 Sep. 1863. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 69 (1878).

HENDERSON, Alexander. b. 1828 or 1829; in service of Post office; sec. to Edward Askew Sothern the comedian; lessee and manager Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1861? to 8 Feb. 1868; lessee of Criterion theatre, London 1876–9; lessee of Folly theatre 1876–9; lessee of Globe theatre 1878–81; opened the Comedy theatre with La Mascotte comic opera 15 Oct. 1881, lessee to 1885; lessee of Avenue theatre 1885 to decease. (m. (1) Miss Moon of Liverpool; m. (2) Lydia Thompson, actress). d. Prince of Wales’ hotel, Cannes 1 Feb. 1886 aged 57. bur. 2 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1886 p. 8, 19 Jany. 1889 p. 16; A. Brereton’s Dramatic Notes (1887) 15–17.

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.