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.