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HENTY, FREDERICK, brother of George Alfred Henty (qv); b. 25 Jan 1835; adm. 24 Sep 1847 (Scott's); BB 14 Mar 1849; volunteered with brother for active service on outbreak of Crimean War; entered Hospital Commissariat Service, Army, and went out to Crimea spring 1855; d. of cholera at Scutari 1855.

HENTY, GEORGE ALFRED, son of James Henty, Godmanchester, Hunts., stockbroker, and Mary Bovill, dau. of Dr. --- Edwards, Wandsworth, Surrey; b. 8 Dec 1832; adm. 24 Sep 1847 (Scott's); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Apr 1851, matr. Mich. 1851, resided three terms; volunteered on outbreak of Crimean War and entered Hospital Commissariat Service, Army, serving in Crimea in 1855, later invalided home; Purveyor of the Forces 1 Oct 1855 – c. 1857; sent to Italy in 1859 to organise hospitals of Italian Legion during Austro-Italian war; later in charge of Belfast and Portsmouth districts, Commissariat Department; became a journalist in 1865; special war correspondent, The Standard 1866, reporting on Austro-Italian war of 1866, Franco-German and Turco-Servian wars, and accompanying Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions; editor, The Union Jack, 1880-3; author, The March to Magdala, 1868, a number of novels, and some eighty books for boys, including Capt. Bayley’s Heir, in which there is an interesting account of the School in Liddell’s time; m. 1st, 1858 Elizabeth Finucane; m. 2nd, 1889 Elizabeth Keylock (his housekeeper); d. on board his yacht Egeria in Weymouth harbour, 16 Nov 1902. DNB Supp.

HENTY, J.; b.; adm.; name up School, with date 1807.

HENTY, WALTER, son of George Henty, Chichester, Sussex, and Maria, dau. of Cornthwaite John Hector, Stodham, Hampshire, banker; b. 16 May 1840; adm. 3 Oct 1850 (James'); QS 1854; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Dean Thomas) 1858, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1858, matr. Mich. 1858; BA 1862; MA 1866; adm. Inner Temple 5 Nov 1862; dir. George Henty and Sons, brewers, Chichester; of Beddington Place, near Croydon, Surrey; m. 3 Mar 1874 Edith Mary, youngest dau. of Thomas Hankey, Chester Square, London; d. 7 Apr 1914.

Hepburn, George, brother of Jonathan King Hepburn (q.v.); b. March 3, 1888; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (R); left July 1905; readm. Jan. 1906; left July 1906; passed into the Technical Coll., South Kensington, 1906; took B.Sc., and won a nomination to the R.E. at Chatham for one year 1909; obtained an appointment at Rosyth 1910; entered the Indian Public Works Dept. as asst. engineer 1911; returned to England May 1916; 2nd Lieut. R.E. July 1916; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1918; went out to the western front Feb. 1917, and served with the 98th Field Co.; killed in action at Driencourt, near Peronne, France, March 22, 1918; umm.

Hepburn, Jonathan King, son of James Smith Hepburn, of Croydon, solicitor, by Ellen, daughter of William Peter Jolliffe, of Bloomsbury; b. Aug. 10, 1885; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (R); left July 1904; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1904; B.A. 1907; passed into the Forest Service of India 1906, but exchanged into that of the Sudan, where he went out as a Deputy Inspector 1908, after spending a year in Germany; Inspector 1912; d. at Wau, on the Blue Nile, June 6, 1912; unm.

Hepburn, Rodger Bawtree, son of George Hepburn, leather merchant, of Sutton, Surrey, and Ethel, d. of James Bawtree of Sutton; b. 15 Mar. 1905; adm. Jan. 1920 (R); left Apr. 1922; a leather merchant; m. 11 Sept. 1930 Joan Winifred, d. of Edgar Christian Robson of Sutton; d. 5 Nov. 1971.

Hepburn, Wallace, son of Ernest Hepburn, solicitor, of Hampstead, and Alice Mary, d. of Edward Hinds Shackle, solicitor, of Hayes, Middx; b. 29 Jan. 1898; adm. Sept. 1911 (G); left July 1915; 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn Dorset Regt Mar. 1917, res. for ill-health Sept. 1918; a chartered accountant, ACA 1920, FCA 1930; practised in London; retd 1964; m. 7 Feb. 1923 Beryl Mary, d. of Paul Storr of Hampstead.

HEPPEL, ADAM MONTAGUE, son of John Mortimer Heppel, London, and Elizabeth Mary Gosset (IGI); b. 29 May 1856; adm. 27 May 1869; QS 2 Feb 1872; left Mar 1873; clerk in insurance office (1881 Census); d. 14 Oct 1885.