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.

HILL, THOMAS, son of Thomas Hill, London; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1760.

HILLARY, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 2 Aug 1549 (Acts of Chapter).

HOLDEN, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1608/9; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1612, subscribed 16 Dec 1614, Westminster Student to 1624; BA 1616 (incorp. Cambridge 1616); MA 1619.

HOLLAND, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).

HORNE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1721, qv); bapt. Spelsbury, Oxfordshire 5 Sep 1737; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1744; went to Eton Coll. , KS 1750-5; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1755, aged 18; migrated to Trinity Coll. Oxford; BA 1759; MA 1762 (incorp. Cambridge 1769); BD and DD 1788; Fellow, Trinity Coll. ; ordained priest (Oxford) 22 Jun 1766; Master of the Manor House School, Chiswick, Middlesex; m. Frances Ann Price; d. 27 Jan 1824. [Perhaps Vicar of Withington, Herefs. , 9 May 1778 – res Jan 1797].

HOTHAM, CHARLES, third son of Sir John Hotham, Bart. , Governor of Hull, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Ralph Rokeby, Secretary, Council of the North; b. 12 May 1615; adm. ; KS 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224); Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1631, matr. 1631; migrated to Christ’s Coll. , adm. pens. 7 May 1632; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; ordained; Vicar of Withernsea, Yorks. , 1640-4; Vicar of Hollyn in Holderness, Yorks. , 5 Nov 1640-4; returned to Cambridge; Fellow of Peterhouse 11 Jun 1644-51, Bursar 1646-8; University Preacher and Proctor 1646; preached against the Engagement Dec 1650; quarrelled with the Master of his college and petitioned against his “usurpations”; his publication of a pamphlet entitled Corporations Vindicated led to his expulsion from his fellowship in 1651; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks. , 22 Jul 1652; Rector of Wigan, Lancs. , 1653-62, when he was ejected for nonconformity after a prolonged resistance; emigrated to West Indies, where he became one of the ministers in the Somers Islands (Bermuda), so appointed 28 Feb 1668/9; a man of some scientific attainments, particularly interested in chemistry and astronomy; FRS 9 Jan 1667/8; translated Boehme, Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions, 1654; author, Ad Philosophiam Teutonicam Manuductio, 1648; m. 15 Sep 1656 Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Thompson, Hambleton, Yorks. ; d. in Somers Islands 3 Mar 1671/2. DNB.

HUMES, PETER, son of Thomas Humes, Charlton, Kent; b. ; in school lists 1656; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (aged 18) 1659, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, matr. Easter 1659.

HUSSEY, ROBERT, fourth son of Rev. William Hussey, Rector of Sandhurst, Kent, and Charlotte, dau. of William Twopenny, Rochester, Kent; nephew of Edward Hussey (qv); b. 7 Oct 1801; adm. Mich. 1814, from Rochester GS; KS 1816; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1821, matr. 2 Jun 1821, Westminster Student, Tutor and Censor; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1824; BA 1825; MA 1827 (incorp. Cambridge 1835); BD 1837; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1831, 1846; Proctor 1836; Public Examiner 1838-9; Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Oxford Univ. , from 23 Apr 1842; ordained; Perpetual Curate of Binsey, Oxfordshire, from 1845; edited Socrates, Evagrius, Bede and Sozomen; established as against Cureton the accepted view on the Epistles of St. Ignatius; author, The Rise of the Papal Power, 1851, and other works; m. 22 Oct 1845 Elizabeth, sister of Jacob Ley (qv); d. 2 Dec 1856. DNB.

HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1639. [possibly Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. pens. Easter 1641, of Devon]