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HEALD, JAMES (_2 son of James Heald, merchant_). _b._ Portwood near
Stockport 1 March 1796; ed. Rochdale; in his father’s business at
Brinnington and Disley, Cheshire, became a partner and made a
fortune; resided at Parr’s Wood near Didsbury, Manchester 1825 to
death; M.P. Stockport 1847–52; treasurer Wesleyan missionary soc.,
the most prominent layman in the connection and a preacher;
founded and chiefly maintained Stockport infirmary. _d._ Parr’s
Wood 26 Oct. 1873. _bur._ Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire,
personalty sworn under £350,000, 3 Jany. 1874. _Manchester
Examiner 29 Oct. 1873 p._ 8.

HEALE, REV. EDMUND MARKHAM (_2 son of Markham Heale of Calne,
Wilts._) _b._ 12 May 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and
Queen’s coll. Ox., Boden Sanskrit scholar 1844, B.A. 1847, M.A.
1850; professor of classics in royal military coll. Sandhurst,
June 1851 to 1859; C. of Woolavington, Somerset 1859–60; R. of
Yelling near Huntingdon 1860 to death; author of _Manual of
Geography_ 1853, _3 ed._ 1863. _d._ Yelling rectory 7 Dec. 1874.

HEALE, JAMES NEWTON. _b._ 1810; L.S.A. 1834; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S.
1845, M.R.C.P. 1846; M.B. London 1850, M.D. 1850; phys. royal free
hospital, London; phys. Hants. county hospital; author of
_Treatise on vital causes_ 1859; _A treatise on the physiological
anatomy of the lungs_ 1862. _d._ Hollington lodge near St.
Leonards-on-Sea 16 April 1891.

HEALES, RICHARD (_son of an ironmonger_). _b._ London; apprentice to
a coachmaker; went to Victoria, Australia 1842; a day labourer,
became proprietor of his master’s business; councillor for Gipps
ward, Melbourne 1849;. member of legislative assembly for East
Bourke 1857 to death; chief sec. 26 Nov. 1860 to 14 Nov. 1861;
president of board of lands and works and comr. of crown lands 27
June 1863 to death. _d._ Melbourne 19 June 1864.

HEAPHY, CHARLES (_son of Thomas Heaphy water colour painter
1775–1835_). _b._ 1818; draughtsman to New Zealand co. 1839,
exploring in N.Z. 1839, road making 1843; draughtsman to N.Z.
government Aug. 1848; commissioner Coromandel gold fields 1852;
surveyor for government of N.Z. 1854, chief surveyor 1864; was in
third Maori war, wounded 11 Feb. 1864, major in militia 11 Feb.
1864, V.C. 8 Feb. 1867; member N.Z. house of representatives
1867–70, comr. of government insurance and judge of native land
courts 1878, retired June 1881; author of _Narrative of a
residence in various parts of New Zealand_ 1842. _d._ Brisbane 3
Aug. 1881 aged 63. _O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross_ (1880) 174.

HEAPHY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ St. John’s Wood,
London 2 April 1813; assumed additional Christian name of Frank,
but dropped it before 1850; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A., 8 at
B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1831–74; member soc. of British Artists
to 1867; among his best known paintings are Lord Burleigh showing
his bride her new home 1865 and Lizzie Farren after Countess of
Derby waiting at the prison bars with her father’s breakfast 1872;
visited Rome several times to investigate origin of likeness of
Christ; author of _The likeness of Christ, an enquiry into the
verisimilitude of the received likeness of our Blessed Lord_ 1880,
_2 ed._ 1886; _A wonderful ghost story, Mr. Heaphy’s own
narrative_ 1882. _d._ 46 Sussex st. Pimlico, London 7 Aug. 1873.
_Bryan’s Dict. of Painters, i_, 636 (1886).

HEARD, JACOB or JAMES. _b._ 1799; went to Russia where he introduced
the Lancaster schools; wrote a large number of Russian school
books and several very popular novels; author of _A practical
grammar of the Russian language. St. Petersburg_ 1827; _Key to the
themes contained in Beard’s Russian grammar. St. Petersburg_ 1827;
_Phraseology of the Russian language. St. Petersburg_ 1840; _An
edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield in Russian_ 1846.
_d._ 28 Sep. 1875.

HEARD, JOHN ISAAC. _b._ Kinsale, co. Cork 1787; ed. at Peterhouse
coll. Cam., B.A. 1808; sheriff of Cork 1849; M.P. for Kinsale 1852
to 1859. _d._ Kinsale 1 Sep. 1862.

HEARDER, JONATHAN NASH (_eld. son of Jonathan Hearder_). _b._
Plymouth 24 Dec. 1809; practical chemist and electrician at
Plymouth; devised improvements with induction coil and application
of electricity to medical purposes; constructed an electro-dynamic
coil 1846; patented improvements in submarine telegraph cables
1858; a popular lecturer in West of England; electrician to South
Devon hospital; D.Sc., Ph.D., F.C.S.; became blind in 1831 but
continued his researches in electricity; author of _Guide to the
fishing of Plymouth and neighbourhood_ 18—. _d._ 13 Princess sq.
Plymouth 16 July 1876. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 225,
1225.

HEARN, PATRICK. Owner of 100 cabs, 20 omnibuses and 1000 barrows;
known as the Wheel King of London. _d._ 20 Feb. 1889 aged 47.

HEARN, WILLIAM EDWARD (_son of Rev. W. E. Hearn, vicar of
Killague_). _b._ Belturbet, co. Cavan 22 April 1826; ed. at
Enniskillen and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1845, B.A. 1847,
LL.B., LLD. and M.A. 1863; professor of Greek, Queen’s coll.
Galway 1849–54; first prof. of modern history, Melbourne univ.
1854–73, dean of the faculty of law 1873, chancellor May to Oct.
1886; called to the Irish bar 1853 and to bar of Victoria 1860;
Q.C. 1886; member of legislative council for Central province
1878, introduced bills for the codification of the laws; author of
_The Cassell prize essay on the condition of Ireland_ 1851; _The
government of England, its structure and its development_ 1867, _2
ed._ 1887; _The Aryan household, its structure and its
developement_ 1879; _The theory of legal duties and rights_ 1885.
_d._ Melbourne 23 April 1888. _Men of the Time._ _Victoria_ 1878
_p._ 86; _Australasian 28 April 1888_.

HEARNE, REV. DANIEL. _b._ Ireland; ed. at Maynooth; priest of St.
Patrick’s chapel, Manchester 1832, removed by Dr. Brown bishop of
Liverpool 1846, his removal led to a series of brawls in the
church 1846; brought an action for libel against Rev. Hugh Stowell
1840; stabbed in his arm and wrist while walking in the Corso,
Rome, Aug. 1848; took charge of the mission at Bootle near
Liverpool from 25 March 1849 to 5 Oct. 1851; went to U.S. America
1851; fell from the scaffolding of a church and was _killed_ U.S.
America about 1852. _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 232–8
(1888); _Adolphus and Ellis Reports, xii_, 719–33 (1842).

HEARSEY, SIR JOHN BENNETT. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 14 Sep.
1808, commanded Presidency division 11 Aug. 1856 to 12 April 1861;
L.G. 15 June 1862; col. 21 hussars 30 Sep. 1862 to death; C.B. 9
June 1849, K.C.B. 4 July 1857 for his services during Sepoy
mutiny. _d._ Boulogne, France 23 Oct. 1865.

HEATH, CAROLINE (_dau. of Francis Heath_). _b._ July 1835; ed. at
Miss Richardson’s school, Blackheath; made her début at Princess’s
theatre, London 18 Sep. 1852 as Stella in Boucicault’s _The Prima
Donna_; played Ophelia at same house Jany. 1858, Cordelia 17 April
1858; played Juliet at Sadler’s Wells 16 Sep. 1859 and Fiordelisa
in Tom Taylor’s _The Fool’s Revenge_, Oct. 1859; played The Queen
of Spain in _Ruy Blas_ at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1860; acted in the
provinces; played Jane Shore in W. G. Wills’ drama _Jane Shore_ at
Princess’s, Oct. 1876 to March 1877, in the provinces March to
Dec. 1877 and at Princess’s again; played Clotilde in _Fernande_
at Court theatre 20 Sep. 1879; private reader to the Queen. (_m._
31 July 1866 William Henry Barrett known as Wilson Barrett,
actor). _d._ Worthing 26 July 1887. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_, _2
ed._ (1880) 170–3; _I.L.N. xxxv_, 571, 584 (1859), _portrait_,
_lxix_, 524 (1876); _Illust. Sport. and Dr. News, vi_, 59, 68–9,
84 (1876), _portrait_; _Theatre, iii_, 189 (1879), _portrait, ii_,
11 (1883); _The Players, i_, 1 (1860), _portrait_.

HEATH, CHRISTOPHER (_son of John Heath, dentist_). _b._ London 26
March 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–7; a dentist in London to
1835; angel or minister of the Irvingite or catholic apostolic ch.
14 Newman st. London 1835, removed to a new ch. in Gordon sq. 1853
where he was the angel to his death; latterly he was in receipt of
£1000 a year; visited the branch churches on the continent. _d._
28 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1876. _Miller’s Irvingism, i_, 152,
268, 318 (1878).

HEATH, REV. DUNBAR ISIDORE. _b._ 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
fellow 1840–7; 5 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of
Brading, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1846 to 6 June 1862 when deprived of
his benefice by judicial committee of privy council for
expressions derogatory to the 39 articles used in his sermons
1859; edited _Journal of Anthropology_ 1870; author of _A brief
account of the Scottish and Italian missions to the Anglo-Saxons_
1845; _The future human Kingdom of Christ, or man’s heaven to be
this earth 2 vols._ 1852–3; _Sermons on important subjects_ 1860
and other books. _d._ Esher, Surrey 27 May 1888 aged 72. _A
defence of my professional character, By D. I. Heath_ [1862].

HEATH, GEORGE (_1 son of a farmer_). _b._ Gratton in Horton parish,
Staffs. 9 March 1844; farm labourer, an apprentice to a carpenter
to 1864; became consumptive 1864; known as the Moorland poet;
author of _Preludes_ 1865, _Second ed. called Simple poems_ 1866;
_Heart strains_ 1866; _The poems of George Heath_ (1870),
_portrait_; _The poems of G. Heath_ (1880), _portrait_. _d._
Gratton 5 May 1869. _Good Words 1871 pp._ 170–77, _portrait_.

HEATH, GEORGE CRAUFURD. Ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of King’s coll. 1807 to death; F.R.S. _d._
18 July 1860.

HEATH, GEORGE THOMAS, _b._ 1778; barrister I.T. 13 Nov. 1807;
serjeant at law 22 Nov. 1830, received patent of precedence 1834;
deputy judge of county court of Middlesex. _d._ 34 Montagu place,
Russell sq. London 21 Jany. 1852.

HEATH, JOHN BENJAMIN (_son of John Heath of Genoa, merchant_). _b._
Genoa 6 June 1790; ed. at Harrow 1798–1806; fag to Lord Byron;
consul general for Kingdom of Sardinia 10 May 1817–61, for Kingdom
of Italy 1861 to death; a merchant and foreign banker in London to
death; a director of Bank of England 1823–72, deputy governor
1843–4, governor 1846–7; master of Grocers company 1829; F.S.A. 12
Jany. 1832; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1843; baron Heath in the Kingdom of
Italy 26 May 1867; author of _Some account of the Company of
Grocers_ 1829, _2 ed._ 1854. _d._ 66 Russell sq. London 16 Jany.
1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 8 March 1879. _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xxix_, 6 (1879); _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii_, 101
(1881).

HEATH, REV. RICHARD FORD (_only son of Richard Ford Heath of
Uxbridge, Middlesex_). _b._ 1833; matric. at Univ. of London 1850,
B.A. 1853; matric. at Univ. of Oxford 17 Feb. 1873, B.A. 1876,
M.A. 1879; C. of St. Philip and St. James, Oxford 1875–8; head
master of Bideford gr. sch. 1879–80; V. of Bishopswood, Staffs.
1880 to death; author of _Albrecht Dürer and Titian 2 vols._ 1879
in _Illustrated biographies of Great Artists_. _d._ Bideford 11
March 1888 aged 55.

HEATH, THOMAS, _b._ Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. 10 Dec. 1808; played
with the Nottingham eleven 1828–45; could throw a ball 107 yards;
a good cover point and middle wicket; lacemaker, emigrated to
France where he remained 1839–44; resided at Nottingham 1844 to
death. _d._ while on a visit to Sutton 16 Oct. 1872. _bur._
Nottingham. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii_, 66 (1862), _v, p.
xiv_ (1876).

HEATHCOAT, JOHN (_son of Francis Heathcoat of Long Whatton, Leics.,
farmer_). _b._ Duffield near Derby 7 Aug. 1783; a setter up of
hosiery and warp frames at Nottingham, at Hathern 1803, at
Loughborough 1805; inventor of lace making machinery by patenting
a bobbin net machine 1809 which he called Old Loughborough;
partner with Charles Lacy 1809–16, partner with John Boden at
Tiverton 1816–21; retired from business 1843; M.P. for Tiverton 12
Dec. 1832 to 23 April 1859; built British schools at Tiverton,
opened 1843. _d._ Bollam house, Tiverton 18 Jany. 1861. _W.
Felkin’s History of Hosiery_ (1867) 180–270, _portrait_; _Bevan’s
British manufacturing industries, Hosiery, By W. Felkin_ (1877)
56–73; _Mozley’s Reminiscences, i_, 239–42 (1885).

HEATHCOTE, ARTHUR (_son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1773–1851_). _b._
22 June 1829; had private races in Durdans park; a perpetual
steward of Epsom races to which he contributed an annual plate;
master Surrey stag hounds to death. _d._ Durdans, Epsom 18 March
1869. _Sporting Rev. Feb. 1863 p._ 165, _portrait_; _Sporting
Gazette 20 March 1869 p._ 199.

HEATHCOTE, EDMUND (_3 son of Rev. Samuel Heathcote of Red house,
Hursley, d. 27 Nov. 1846 aged 73_). _b._ 1814; entered navy June
1827, captain 15 Dec. 1852; commander in chief at Queenstown 20
May 1871 to 1 Jany. 1874; V.A. 1 Jany. 1874, retired 30 Jany.
1879; retired admiral 15 June 1879. _d._ Fritham lodge, New Forest
29 Oct. 1881.

HEATHCOTE, SIR GILBERT, 4 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Gilbert
Heathcote, 3 baronet_). _b._ Oct. 1773; succeeded 4 Dec. 1785;
M.P. for Lincolnshire 1796–1807, for Rutland 1812–1841; won the
Derby with Amato 1838. _d._ Durdans, Epsom 27 March 1851. _W.
Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed._ (1886) 155; _I.L.N. xviii_, 273 (1851);
_Thoughts of a Lincolnshire freeholder. With a dialogue between
Sir G. Heathcote and a Lincolnshire freeholder_, _3 ed._ 1796.

HEATHCOTE, SIR HENRY (_4 son of Sir William Heathcote, 3 bart., of
Hursley park, Hants., M.P. 1746–1819_). _b._ 20 Jany. 1777;
entered navy 3 July 1790, captain 5 Feb. 1798; knighted 20 July
1819 at request of Sir Gore Ouseley and Mirza Abdul Hassan the
Persian ambassador whom he conveyed to Persia 1808; R.A. 27 May
1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; awarded a
service pension 1 July 1851; published _Treatise on stay-sails,
and the superiority of stay-sails invented by Sir H. Heathcote_
1824. _d._ Ingouville near Havre 16 Aug. 1851.

HEATHCOTE, SIR WILLIAM, 5 Baronet (_only son of Rev. Wm. Heathcote
1772–1802, preb. of Winchester_). _b._ Worting, Hants. 17 May
1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L.
1824, D.C.L. 1830; fellow of All Souls coll. 1822–5, hon. fellow
1858; succeeded 22 Feb. 1825; M.P. for Hants. 1826–32, for North
Hants. 1837–49 and for Oxford Univ. 1854–68; chairman of Hants.
quarter sessions; P.C. 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ Hursley park near
Winchester 18 Aug. 1881.

HEATHCOTE, REV. WILLIAM BEADON (_3 son of Rev. Gilbert Heathcote of
Winchester_). _bapt._ at St. Thomas, Winchester 14 Jany. 1813; ed.
at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832–53; B.C.L. 1839, M.A.
1859; tutor and dean of canon law 1839, subwarden 1840, bursar
1845, dean of civil law 1846; warden of Radley; precentor of
Salisbury cath. 1854 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1856 to
death; V. of Sturminster Marshall 1858–62; R. of Compton Bassett
1862 to death; author of _The psalter with the Gregorian tones, By
W. B. H._ 1845; _Harmonized Gregorian tones for the Psalter_ 1849.
_d._ London 21 Aug. 1862.

HEATHER, JOHN FRY. Mathematical master at royal military academy,
Woolwich many years; lecturer at Royal Artillery Institute; author
of _A treatise of mathematical instruments_ 1849, _7 ed._ 1864,
_new ed. 3 vols._ 1871; _The elements of mathematical drawing_
1872 and other works. _d._ Stroud-green road, Finsbury park,
London 13 Nov. 1886.

HEATHERINGTON, ALEXANDER. Opened in 1867 at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
the International Mining agency; associated with the Canadian
mines bureau 30 Moorgate st. London; started the _Mining Gazette_,
No. 1 Halifax 10 Jany. 1868 and was the editor; F.G.S.; author of
_The gold yield of Nova Scotia_ 1860–9, continued as _The mining
industries of Nova Scotia_ 1870–4; _A practical guide for persons
interested in gold fields of Nova Scotia_ 1868. _d._ Toronto,
Canada 8 March 1878. _Geological Mag. v_, 336 (1878).

HEATHORN, CATHERINE (_dau. of Robert Heathorn, brewer, Maidstone_).
_bapt._ All Saints’ ch. Maidstone 17 April 1783. _d._ at res. of
her grand niece Mrs. A. E. Rowcroft 2 Craven place, Maidstone 2
Feb. 1888 aged nearly 105 years. _I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1883 p._ 416,
_portrait_.

HEATON, CLEMENT (_son of Rev. James Heaton, wesleyan minister, d.
1862_). _b._ Bradford, Wilts. 1824; glass painter and designer,
Warwick 1850; founded firm of Heaton and Butler, glass painters
and church decorators, London 1857; his chief works were
decorating Trinity coll. chapel, Cambridge, Eaton hall, the town
halls at Rochdale and Manchester, and churches at Banbury, Ascot,
West Newton and Sandringham. _d._ Feb. 1882.

HEATON, JOHN DEAKIN (_son of John Heaton, bookseller and printer,
Leeds_). _b._ 7 Briggate, Leeds 23 Nov. 1817; ed. at Leeds gram.
sch. 1830–4; studied at Leeds sch. of medicine 1835, at Caius
coll. Cam. 1839, at Univ. coll. Lond. 1840 and in Paris 1842; M.B.
Univ. of Lond. 1841, M.D. 1843, F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848; senior
physician Leeds general infirmary 1843; lecturer on practice of
medicine Leeds sch. of medicine 1844; physician Leeds infirmary
1850 to death; established Yorkshire college of Science 1874;
member of Leeds Philosophical and literary soc. 1843, member of
council 1845, president; mem. of Leeds sch. board 29 Nov. 1870.
_d._ 2 East Parade, Leeds 28 March 1880. _Reid’s Memoir of J. D.
Heaton_ (1883), _portrait_.

HEATON, MARY MARGARET (_eld. dau. of James Keymer, silk printer_).
_b._ 15 May 1836. (_m._ 1863 Charles William Heaton, professor of
chemistry); contributed to _The Academy_ 1869 to death; author of
_Masterpieces of Flemish art_ 1869; _History of life of Albrecht
Dürer_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1881; _A concise history of painting_ 1873;
_Leonardo da Vinci and his works_ 1874; _Happy springtime. With
rhymes for mothers and children_ 1874. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 1
June 1883. _Academy 9 June 1883 p._ 408.

HEAVISIDES, HENRY, _b._ Darlington 29 Nov. 1791; journeyman printer
at Stockton from 1814, presented with a public testimonial March
1847; contributed to periodicals; author of _Pleasures of home and
other poems_ 1837, _3 ed._ 1849; _The minstrelsy of Britain,
poetry and poets from Elizabeth to the present time. Stockton_
1860; _Courtship and marriage, their lights and shades_ 1864; _The
annals of Stockton-on-Tees, with biographical notices_ 1865. _d._
before 1879. _Annals of Stockton_ (1865) 176–80, _portrait_.

HEAVYSEGE, CHARLES, _b._ Liverpool 2 May 1816; went to Canada and
took up his residence at Montreal 1853, worked in a machine shop;
a reporter to the _Daily Witness_, Montreal 1860; author of _The
revolt of Tartarus_ 1852; _Saul, a drama_ [_by C. H._] 1857, _2
ed._ 1859, contains 10,000 lines of verse; _Count Filippi or the
unequal marriage, a drama_ 1860; _Jephthah’s daughter_ 1865; _Ode
for tercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth_ 1864; _The Advocate, a
novel_ 1865. _d._ Montreal 1876. _The Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1865
pp._ 412–18, 250–54; _The Canadian Monthly, x_, 127–34; _Morgan’s
Bibl. Canad. 1867 p._ 181.

HEBB, CHRISTOPHER HENRY. _b._ 1771; M.R.C.S.; surgeon and apothecary
at Worcester; medical attendant to prince Lucien Bonaparte and his
household at Thorngrove near Worcester; one of the originators of
Provincial medical and surgical association 1832; the first mayor
of Worcester after the municipal reform act 1833, chairman of the
charity trustees there to 1846; founded almshouses at Worcester
for decayed aldermen and councillors and their widows 1853;
translated Corvisart’s _Diseases of the heart_; published _An
account of all the public charities in the city of Worcester that
are under the management of the Worcester charity trustees_ 1842,
_3 ed._ 1860. _d._ Britannia sq. Worcester 26 Oct. 1861 aged 90.

HEBDITCH, REV. SAMUEL (_son of a manufacturer_). _b._ Lopen,
Somerset 22 March 1821; ed. at Highbury coll. 1843–8;
congregational minister at Ashburton 1848–53, Woolwich 1853–5,
Bristol 1855–72 and Clapton park, Hackney 1872–85; minister
Collins’ st. congregational ch. Melbourne, Victoria 1880–81;
organised the Young Christians’ Band, London 1881; minister
Brougham palace ch. North Adelaide, South Australia 1885 to death;
chairman Congregational union, S.A. 1887–8; a very successful
preacher; author of _Genuine revival, An address_ 1872. _d._
Adelaide 5 May 1888. _Congregational Year Book_ (1889) 181–6.

HEBERT, REV. CHARLES. Scholar of C.C.C. Cam. 1827; scholar of Trin.
coll. 1828; 35 wrangler and first class in classics 1830; B.A.
1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1872, D.D. 1874; V. of Lechlade 1844–51; R.
of Burslem 1851–58; V. and then R. of Lowestoft 1862–70; V. of
Ambleside 1875–78; author of _Neology not true and truth not new_
1861; _On clerical subscription_ 1862; _Faith and doubt_ 1872;
_The Lord’s supper, uninspired teaching 2 vols._ 1879; _The New
Testament scriptures, a translation of the six primary epistles_
1882. _d._ 1 Marine ter. Silloth, Cumb. 23 June 1890 in 83 year.

HECHT, EDOUARD (_son of Heinrich Hecht, musician, Frankfort_). _b._
Dürkheim-on-the-Haardt, Rhenish Bavaria 28 Nov. 1832; came to
England, Nov. 1854, settled at Manchester as a music master;
conductor of Manchester Liedertafel 1859–78, of St. Cecilia choral
soc. 1860 and of Stretford choral soc. 1879; chorus master for Sir
Charles Hallé at his concerts 1870 and then sub-conductor;
lecturer on harmony and composition, Owen’s coll. 1875; conductor
of Bradford and Halifax musical soc.; wrote _The charge of the
light brigade, a chorus_; _Impromptu for the pianoforte_ 1872;
_Eric the Dane, a cantata_ 1882 and 23 other pieces of music. _d._
Ravenswood, Spath road, Palatine road, Didsbury, Manchester 6
March 1887. _Grove’s Dict. of Music, iv_, 670; _Manchester Evening
News 7 March 1887_.

HECKFORD, NATHANIEL (_son of Capt. N. Heckford_). _b._ Calcutta 24
April 1842; student London hospital 1859; M.R.C.S. 1863; L.R.C.P.
Edin. 1865, L.S.A. 1867; consulting surgeon Broad st. buildings,
City of London 1863; established and endowed East London hospital
for children and Dispensary for women, Ratcliff Cross 28 Jany.
1868, where he was the active surgeon to his death; a good
diagnoser and a brilliant operator; revived the operation of
paracentesis capitis; sec. Beaumont medical soc.; author of very
numerous medical papers. _d._ Ramsgate 14 Dec. 1871. _bur._
Woking. _Medical Times 6 Jany._ 1872 _p._ 25; _The story of the
East London hospital for children. By Mrs. N. Heckford_ 1887.

HEDLEY, OSWALD DODD (_son of Wm. Hedley of Wylam-on-Tyne_). Author
of a work entitled _Who invented the Locomotive engine_ 1858, in
which he claimed that his father William Hedley who had the
direction of the Wylam colleries and _d._ 184-, invented the
locomotive and took out a patent 13 March 1813. _d._ Beckenham,
Kent 1 April 1882.

HEDLEY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1805 or 1808;
barrister G.I. 29 Jany. 1831, went Northern circuit; a coal
owner at 75 Quay side, Newcastle. _d._ 66 Jesmond road,
Newcastle-on-Tyne 5 Aug. 1877.

NOTE.—He left a legacy of £200,000 for purpose of founding and
endowing the see of a bishop of the Reformed Anglican church
for the county of Northumberland.

HEELIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1811; solicitor at Manchester 1826 to death;
promoted Manchester law association formed Dec. 1838, pres. of it
18—and 1867; alderman of Salford 1853–57, mayor 1855–57; declined
knighthood 1857. _d._ Above Beck, Grasmere 26 Aug. 1871 aged 60.
_Law Times, li_, 339, 356 (1871).

HEENAN, JOHN CAMEL (_son of Timothy Heenan, an Irishman_). _b._ West
Troy, New York 2 May 1835; a machinist at Benicia, California
1852–4; a miner 1854–7; went to New York 1857; fought John
Morrissey for 5000 dollars a side and the championship of America
at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct 1858 when Morrissey won in 11 rounds
lasting 21 minutes; proclaimed champion of America as Morrissey
declined to fight again; landed at Liverpool 16 Jany. 1860; fought
Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion belt near Farnborough
railway station on the borders of Hants and Surrey 17 April 1860,
after fighting 37 rounds in 2 hours the referee left the ring, the
battle was declared drawn and both men were presented with silver
belts at the Alhambra, London 30 May 1860; sailed for New York 4
July 1860; returned to England 3 April 1862; fought Tom King for
£1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863
when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes; always known as the
“Benicia Boy,” stood 6 feet 2½ inches, and weighed 260 pounds.
(_m._ near New York 3 April 1859 Adah Isaacs Menken the actress,
he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862), he _d._ Green River
Station, Wyoming Territory 28 Oct. 1873. _Modern Boxing by
Pendragon_ [_Henry Sampson_] (1878) 57–78; _W. E. Harding’s
Champions of the American prize ring_ (1888) 12–14, _portrait_;
_H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_ (1881) _iii, frontispiece, and pp._
415–43, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news i_, 29, 41, 193 (1862),
3 _portrait_.

NOTE.—He is one of the characters in Edward Jenkins’s novel
_Lisa Lena_ _2 vols._ 1880. A poem entitled “The Combat of
Sayerius and Heenanus, a lay of ancient London” appeared in
Punch, April 28, 1860; the poem is a paraphrase of Lord
Macaulay’s lay “Horatius” in the “Lays of Ancient Rome”; the
author of it was said to be William Makepeace Thackeray.

HEGINBOTHAM, HENRY. Mayor of Stockport, Cheshire twice; author of
_Stockport, ancient and modern_ 1877. _d._ Stockport 26 April
1891.

HEINKE, JOHN WILLIAM (_son of a Pole, a coppersmith_). _b._ London
1816; established himself as a submarine engineer at 79 Great
Portland st. London 1845; invented an improved diving dress and
air pump, obtained medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; removed the
vessels sunk in Sebastopol harbour 1856; reported on the possible
raising of the Lutine frigate from off Terschelling 1858;
recovered the watches stolen from Walker’s shop, 63 Cornhill, and
thrown over Blackfriar’s bridge Feb. 1865; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856.
_d._ 9 Regent’s park villas, Regent’s park, London 12 April 1870.
_Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxi_, 247–8 (1871).

HELLER, ROBERT, stage name of William Henry Palmer (_son of Henry
Palmer, musician, Canterbury_). _b._ Canterbury 1830; ed. at R.
Academy of music, London 1845–6, King’s scholar; appeared as a
conjurer at Rochester; landed in America 15 Sept. 1852, made his
début as a conjurer at Museum, Albany N.Y.; appeared in Chinese
assembly room, Broadway, New York; a teacher of Music in
Washington D.C. under his own name of Palmer; opened the French
theatre No. 585 Broadway, New York, which he called Heller’s Salle
Diabolique 11 April 1864; gave performances in Polygraphic hall,
King William st. London 27 Jany. to Feb. 1868; his half sister
assisted him in his second-sight séances from 1868; visited
Australia, Java, India and California; opened the Globe theatre,
New York as Heller’s Wonder theatre 15 Nov. 1876; opened
Fifth-avenue hall, New York 10 Dec. 1877, and Concert hall,
Philadelphia 25 Nov. 1878 being his last appearance; improved on
Houdin and became a most finished clairvoyant entertainer;
composer of _Sophie galop_, New York 1863 and other pieces of
music; left nearly £80,000. _d._ Continental hotel, Philadelphia
28 Nov. 1878. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 168,
_portrait_; _W. I. Bishop’s Second-sight explained, as exhibited
by R. Houdin and R. Heller_ (1880).

HELMORE, REV. HOLLOWAY. Chief of the Makololo Mission which started
about middle of 1859 from coast of Africa for a journey of 1000
miles to the tribes on north of the Zambesi, this journey was
accomplished 1859. _d._ Linyanti 21 April 1860. _Waddington’s
Congregational history v_, 229–64 (1880).

HELMORE, REV. THOMAS (_son of Thomas Helmore_). _b._ Kidderminster 7
May 1811; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; C. of St.
Michael, Lichfield; priest vicar in Lichfield cath. 1840–2;
vice-principal of St. Mark’s coll. Chelsea 1842–6 and precentor
1846, retired 1877 when National Soc. gave him a pension; master
of the choristers chapel royal St. James’ 1846 to death; priest in
ordinary to the Queen 1847 to death; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs.
1872, resigned 1872; precentor at Bedford chapel, Bloomsbury; hon.
precentor of Motett choir, and of London Gregorian choral
association; author and writer of _The psalter noted_ 1849; _A
manual of plain song_ 1850; _Carols for Christmas tide set to
ancient melodies_ 1853; _A treatise on choir and chorus singing_
1855; _St. Mark’s chant book_ 1863; _A catechism of music_ 1878
and other pieces of music. _d._ 72 St. George’s sq. Pimlico,
London 6 July 1890. _Pictorial World 17 July 1890 p._ 76,
_portrait_.

HELPS, SIR ARTHUR (_1 son of Thomas Helps of Balham, Surrey_). _b._
Streatham, Surrey 10 July 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; D.C.L. of Oxford 8 June 1864; private sec.
to Spring Rice (Lord Monteagle) chancellor of exchequer; private
sec. to lord Morpeth chief sec. for Ireland 1839; comr. of French,
Danish and Spanish claims; clerk of privy council 9 June 1860 to
death; employed by Queen to revise Prince Albert’s Speeches 1862,
and with the preparation of Leaves of our Life in the Highlands
1868, and Mountain, Loch and Glen 1869; C.B. 30 June 1871, K.C.B.
18 July 1872; author of _Thoughts in the cloister and the crowds_
1835 _anon._; _Catherine Douglas a drama_ 1843 _anon._; _Friends
in council 2 vols._ 1847, _2nd series 2 vols._ 1857, _both anon._;
_The conquerors of the New World_ 1848; _Spanish conquest in
America 4 vols._ 1855–61; _Realmah a novel_ 1868. _d._ 13 Lower
Berkeley st. London 7 March 1875. _bur._ Streatham cemet. 12
March. His widow Bissel dau. of Capt. Edward Fuller granted civil
list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. _Graphic 8 May 1875 pp._ 436,
450, _portrait_.

HEMANS, CHARLES ISIDORE (_youngest son of Felicia Dorothea Hemans,
poetess 1793–1835_). _b._ 1817; settled in Rome and made Roman
history and archæology his chief study; originated the _Roman
Advertiser_, first English paper in Rome 1846; hon. sec. and
librarian of English archæological soc. in Rome; author of
_Catholic Italy_ 1860; _The story of monuments in Rome 2 parts_
1864–5; _A history of christianity and sacred art 3 vols._
1866–72. _d._ at Baths of Lucca 26 Oct. 1876. _Times 3 Nov. 1876
p._ 9.

HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ St.
Asaph, Wales 27 Aug. 1814; ed. at military coll. Sarèze, France;
pupil to Sir John Macneill, C.E., London; chief engineer of
Midland G.W. railway, Ireland 1845–51; constructed a greater
number of railways in Ireland than any other engineer 1845–53;
railway and sewerage engineer in London 1854 to death; engineer in
chief for province of Canterbury, N.Z. 1870 and then engineer in
chief for N.Z. to his death; F.R.G.S., F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1837,
M.I.C.E. 18 May 1845, member of council 1856, V.P. 1872–5; author
with R. Hassard of _On the future water supply of London_ 1866;
seized with paralysis Sep. 1872 and never spoke again. _d._ 11
Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 29 Dec. 1885. _I.L.N.
xix_, 208 (1851); _Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxxv_, 394–99 (1886).

HEMING, DEMPSTER (_youngest son of George Heming of Weddington near
Nuneaton, Warws._) _b._ about 1778; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews;
barrister M.T. 27 May 1808; practised with great success at
Madras; registrar of supreme court at Calcutta; contested North
Warwickshire 26 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Warws. 1840; F.R.A.S. _d._ 7
Hubert terrace, Dover 24 Dec. 1874. _bur._ in family burial place
in Warws.

NOTE.—He was the oldest barrister in the law list, his exact
age was unknown to his relatives.

HEMPEL, CARL or CHARLES FREDERIC (_eld. son of the succeeding_).
_b._ Truro, Sep. 1811; teacher of music at Truro, organist of St.
Mary’s ch. there 1844–57; introduced into Cornwall choral
performances on a large scale; matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 11
Feb. 1855, B.M. 15 Feb.; his oratorio The Seventh Seal performed
at Oxford 19 March 1862, D.M. 20 March; organist and choirmaster
St. John’s episcopal ch. Perth 1857 to death; conductor of Perth
choral union, and of the Euterpean soc.; printed portions of The
Seventh Seal 1864 etc., and many pieces of light music. _d._ Perth
25 April 1867. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 227–8, 1226;
_Boase’s Collect. Cornub. p._ 349; _The Choir, v_, 360 (1867).

HEMPEL, CHARLES WILLIAM. _b._ Chelsea 28 Aug. 1777; played organ in
King’s German chapel, St. James’ 1785; studied at Leipsic and
Dresden 1793–4; organist of St. Mary’s ch. Truro, May 1804 to
1844; removed to Exeter 1844; composer and writer of _Psalms from
the New Version_ 1805; _Sacred melodies_ 1812; _A morning and
evening service_ 1820; _An introduction to the pianoforte_ 1822;
he also was author of _The Commercial tourist or gentleman
traveller, a poem_ 1822, _3 ed._ 1832; a banker’s clerk in London
1854–5. _d._ in the workhouse, Prince’s road, Lambeth, London 14
March 1855. _Dictionary of Musicians, i_, 359–60 (1827).

HEMPHILL, ANDREW T. Ensign 29 foot 7 April 1825, lieut.-colonel 8
Dec. 1846 to 8 March 1848; lieut.-colonel 26 foot 8 March 1848 to
31 July 1860 when placed on h.p.; commander first infantry brigade
at Dublin 1 July 1861 to death; M.G. 10 Nov. 1861. _d._ 11
Burlington road, Dublin 31 March 1863.

HEMPHILL, BARBARA (_youngest dau. of Rev. Patrick Hare, rector of
Golden, Tipperary_). (_m._ John Hemphill of Rathkeany, Tipperary,
who _d._ 26 Sep. 1833); author of _Lionel Deerhurst, or
fashionable life under the Regency 3 vols._ 1846; _The priest’s
niece 3 vols._ 1855; _Freida the Jongler 3 vols._ 1857. _d._
Dublin 5 May 1858.

HEMSLEY, JOHN. Chairman of Implement committee of R. Agric. soc. of
England 1876 to death, member of council 22 May 1874 to death; a
frequent judge of steam cultivation, implements, etc. at the
annual meetings, steward of implements 1886; author of _Report on
the trial of agricultural implements at Taunton_ 1875. _d._
Shelton, Newark, Dec. 1888. _Agricultural Gazette_ 1888.

HEMY, HENRY FREDERICK. _b._ Newcastle 12 Nov. 1818; resided
Newcastle to 1885; removed to West Hartlepool 1885; pianist to the
Earl of Ravensworth; musical instructor at Ushaw coll. Durham;
engaged upon A history of the organ, when he died; composer of
upwards of 100 pieces of music including Drawing room melodies
1851; Melodies of the Tyne and Wear 1857; Thirteen sacred songs
1869; God save the Prince of Wales, song 1876; set to music a
number of Longfellow’s poems; author of _The royal modern tutor
for the pianoforte_ 1854, copyright of which was sold for £500,
1867 and for £3000, 1879. _d._ suddenly at 10 Regent st.
Hartlepool 10 June 1888. _bur._ Moor Edge cemet. Newcastle.
_Northern Daily Mail 11 June 1888 p._ 3, _14 June p._ 3.

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).