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.

HENDERSON, THOMAS, third son of Francis Henderson, Streatham, Surrey, and Elizabeth Child; nephew of John Henderson (qv); b.; adm. 24 Sep 1811; KS (aged 14) 1815; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1820, matr. 12 May 1820, Westminster Student (still 1829); ordained deacon 1824, priest 1825; Vicar of Messing, Essex, from 4 Jan 1828; Rector of Colne Wake, Essex 11 Mar 1831-46; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 25 Nov 1842; m. 19 Jul 1832 Frances, eldest dau. of Rev. Charles Dalton, Vicar of Kelvedon, Essex; d. 4 Aug 1861.

HENDERSON, WALTER GRIMSTONE, son of Thomas Henderson (qv); b. 14 May 1833; adm. 29 Jan 1847 (Rigaud's); QS 1847; left 1851; emigrated to Australia; d. unm. there.

Hendy, Sir Philip Anstiss, son of Frederick James Robert Hendy, Principal of Isleworth Training Coll., by Caroline Isabelle, eldest daughter of A. W. Potts, Head Master of Fettes Coll., Edinburgh; b. Sept. 28, 1900; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1914; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with Triplett) July 1919, matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1923; M.A. 1937; Asst., Wallace Collection, 1923-7; Curator of Paintings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, U. S. A., 1930-3; Director of City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1934-45; Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford, 1936-46; Director of the National Gallery since 1945; knighted 1950; author of Spanish Painting (1945) and other works; m. 1925, Kythe, daughter of Francis Ogilvy, of Guildford; d. 6 Sept. 1980.

HENNE, FRANCIS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1643, Westminster Student Dec 1643 – void 7 May 1647.

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.

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.