HEMINGTON, NICHOLAS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1619, but was never adm.
HEMINGTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Hemington, Chiswick, Middlesex, and Sage Ashworth, All Hallows Barking, London; b. 1 Feb 1711/2; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1720; KS 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1730, matr. 16 Jun 1730, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1730 – deprived 10 Dec 1734 (absence); BA 1745; MA 1746; an Usher at the School c. 1740.
HEMINGTON, WILLIAM, son of John Hemington, Puddletown, Dorset; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1721; Min. Can. 1727; KS 1728; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1733, matr. 25 May 1733, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1733 – void 18 Jul 1748, expiry year of grace as V. Inkberrow; BA 1737; MA 1741; BD and DD 1777; ordained; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1739; Curate of Drayton, Oxfordshire, 1743, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1746; an Usher at the School 1743-8; Vicar of Inkberrow, Worcs., from 13 Jul 1747; Rector of Ravensthorpe, Northants 12 Mar 1747/8-89 (disp. to hold with Inkberrow); Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1 Feb 1777; d. 8 Jun 1792.
HEMMINGE, WILLIAM, ninth child of John Hemminge, St. Mary’s, Aldermanbury, actor, and Rebecca, widow of William Knell, same parish; bap 3 Oct 1602; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. in 1616; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621, Westminster Student to 1629, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 19; BA 1625; MA 1628; author, The Fatal Contract, 1653, and other plays; d. 1653 (?). DNB.
HENCHMAN, CHARLES, brother of Humphrey Henchman (KS 1684, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1688, matr. 29 Jun 1688, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1688 – void 1701, expiry year of grace as V. Great Budworth; BA 1692; MA 1695; ordained; Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire from 13 Mar 1699/1700; Vicar of Horton, Northants 22 Aug 1700-1; Master of the King’s School, Chester, by 1712; Rector of Alderley, Cheshire, from 16 May 1713; Prebendary of Chester from 20 Jan 1717/8; m. Margaret, dau. of Hamlet Woods; d. 6 Feb 1741/2.
HENCHMAN, HUMPHREY, third son of Thomas Henchman, citizen and skinner, London, and Anne, dau. of Robert Griffiths, Caernarvonshire; bapt. Barton Seagrove, Northants 22 Dec 1592; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 219 b); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. 18 Dec 1609; BA 1612/3; MA 1616; BD 1623; DD 1628; Fellow, Clare Hall 1616 – 1622/3 (on Freeman foundation, as founder’s kin); ordained; Precentor and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury 20 Jan 1622/3 – Oct 1660; Prebendary of Salisbury 26 Feb 1622/3 – Oct 1660; Rector of Rushton, Northants 4 May 1624-38/9; Rector of Westbury, Wilts. , 1631; Rector of Wyke Regis, Dorset 11 Jan 1638/9, and of Isle of Portland, Dorset, from 28 Oct 1639; deprived of preferments 1643, “having gone to the Army against the Parliament”; largely instrumental in arranging escape of Charles II after battle of Worcester; consecrated Bishop of Salisbury 28 Oct 1660; Lord High Almoner from 5 May 1662; Bishop of London from 15 Sep 1663; set an example to his clergy by remaining in London during the Great Plague of 1665; a close friend of George Herbert (qv); Izaak Walton recorded that “no one mentioned him without some veneration for his life and excellent learning”; m. 1630 Ellen, sister of Robert Townson (qv); d. 7 Oct 1675. DNB.
HENCHMAN, HUMPHREY, son of Thomas Henchman, Fulham, Middlesex, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Howe, Abbots Langley, Herts.; grandson of Humphrey Henchman (KS 1608/9, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1684; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1687, matr. 15 Jul 1687, aged 18, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1687 - void 1704; BA 1691; MA 1694; BCL and DCL 1702; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 23 Oct 1703; one of the counsel for Dr. Sacheverell 1710; an intimate friend of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); Judge, Admiralty Court 22 Jun – 1 Dec 1714; Chancellor, Dioceses of Rochester 1714 and London 1715; Commissary of Essex and Hertfordshire; m. 22 Sep 1713 Anne, fourth dau. of Thomas Wood, Littleton, Middlesex; d. 15 Aug 1739. DNB.
Henderson, Sir Alan Gerald Russell, elder son of the Rev. Alexander Henderson, Rector of St. John, Canton, near Cardiff, Glamorgan, by Gertrude, daughter of Capt. Arthur Harrison, R. A., of Bournemouth, Rants; b. March 22, 1886; adm. as Q.S. (from Felsted Grammar School) Sept. 28, 1899; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1904, matric. Michaelmas 1904; B.A. 1908; appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1909; arrived in India Nov. 27, 1910, and served in East Bengal and Assam as Asst. Magistrate and Collector; transferred to Bengal April 1912; joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector Dec. 1915; 1. A. R. O. Jan. - March 1918; District and Sessions. Judge from May 1923; Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, 1935-46; knighted 1945; m. Dec. 12, 1922, Margaret, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. Takle, of Brahmanbaria, Eastern Bengal; d. May 17, 1963.
HENDERSON, CHARLES ROBERT, son of Thomas Henderson (qv); b. 9 Jun 1841; at Felsted Sch. 1853-4; adm. Jan 1855; QS 1856; left 1859; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1859; d. at Port Perry, Ontario, Canada 22 Sep 1866.
Henderson, Robert Hallam, son of James Murray Henderson, cost accountant, of Croydon, and Nellie, d. of George Anker of Carlton, Notts; b. 3 Jan. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (KS); killed in a mountaineering accident in the French Alps 5 Aug. 1937.