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.
Henry, Stephen Laurence, son of Laurence Samuel Henry MB BS FRCS (ed), surgeon, of Apsley Heath, Bucks, and Doreen Denness, d. of Rev. Reginald Denness Cooper, Congregational minister, of Rayleigh, Essex; b. 26 Sept. 1935; adm. Sept. 1948 (R); left July 1954; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1954, BA 1958, MA 1961; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh MRCS LRCP 1961; house appts. 1962; DObstRCOG 1964, MRCGP 1973; gen. med. practitioner, Trowbridge, Wilts 1962-95; m. 1 Apr. 1964 Jane Denize, d. of James Munro Gibson, jeweller and goldsmith, of Newbury, Berks; d. 1 Nov. 2009.
HENSCH, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1748/9; left 1749.
HENSHAW, JOHN, second son of John Henshaw, Lewes, Sussex, and Mary Philipps; bapt. Lewes 15 Sep 1633 (IGI, but mother given as Martha); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1648; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1651, adm. pens. 9 May 1651, scholar 1651; BA 1654/5; adm. Middle Temple 23 Nov 1654, called to bar 25 Apr 1662.
HENSHAW, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS in 1567; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1569, Westminster Student to 1583; BA 1573; MA 1577; ordained; Rector of Maidwell St. Peter, Northants, 19 Dec 1580; Vicar of Ravensthorpe, Northants, from 1584; m. Katharine ---; buried Ravensthorpe, Northants 4 Sep 1603.
HENSLEY, WALTER EUSTACE, younger son of Charles Isaac Hensley, and Marianne Elizabeth, dau. of William Swabey (KS 1803, qv); b. 23 Sep 1853; adm. 25 Apr 1868 (James'); member, London Stock Exchange; d. 7 Nov 1905.
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.