Hebert, Jacques Rene, editor of the violent revolutionary organ Pere Duchesne; for opposing his colleagues he was arrested and guillotined (1756-94).
Heliogabalus, made emperor of Rome by the army in 218; ruled moderately at first, but soon abandoned himself to excesses of all kinds, and was assassinated.
Helvetius, a French philosopher of the materialist school (1715-71).
Henry the Fourth, the famous French king, “Henry of Navarre”
(?1589-1610).
Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII., who waged war against the vices of society and the imperial tyranny over the Church.
Hilpa and Shalum, Chinese antediluvians (see Spectator, vol. viii.). Hilpa was a princess and Shalum her lover.
Hoadley, Benjamin, a prelate and keen controversialist on the side of civil and religious liberty (1676-1761).
Holkar, a Mahratta chief whose headquarters were at Indore.
Hosein, the son of Ali Hosein’s mother was Fatima, the favourite daughter of Mahomet.
Houghton, Sir R. Walpole’s Norfolk seat.