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HENRY, PHILIP, son of John Henry, Keeper of the Orchard, Whitehall, and a Page of the Back Stairs to James, Duke of York, and Magdalen, dau. of Henry Rochdale; b. 24 Aug 1631; adm. 1643; KS (Capt. ) 1644 (?); a favourite of Richard Busby (qv); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of University of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Society, 2nd Series, xxix, 268), Westminster Student 24 Mar 1647/8; although Henry returned an ambiguous answer to the Parliamentary Visitors and his name appears in the list of those Students expelled 15 May 1648, he was allowed to keep his Studentship through the intercession of his godfather, the Earl of Pembroke; BA 7 Feb 1650/1; MA 1652; tutor to Mr. Justice Puleston’s sons at Emral, Flints.; ordained minister at Prees, Shropshire 16 Sep 1657; officiated at Worthenbury Chapel, Flints., 1657-61; refused to be reordained 1660; imprisoned on suspicion of conspiracy Oct 1663; a nonconformist preacher 1672-81; fined for keeping conventicles 1681; imprisoned Chester Castle 1685; Nonconformist minister at Broad Oak, Iscoed, Flints., after passing of Toleration Act; his Remains were published in 1648, and his Diaries and Letters in 1682, the latter containing an interesting account of the only occasion on which he “felt the weight” of Busby’s hand (p. 10) and a letter to his son Matthew, written in 1686, in which he makes a noteworthy reference to the custom of “Electio” (p. 353); m. 26 Apr 1660 Katherine, only child of Daniel Matthews, Broad Oak, Iscoed, Flints.; d, 24 Jun 1696. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.