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).