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Henry A Buchtel was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Colorado from 1907 until 1909.
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Henry A Swift was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1863 until 1864.
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Henry A Wise was an American politician. He was born in 1806 and died in 1876. He represented Virginia in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1833 to 1843, but supported the Whig party in opposition to Jackson's bank policy. He was Minister to Brazil from 1844 to 1847. He was elected Governor of Virginia in 1856, after a severe struggle with the Know-nothings, whom he denounced as abolitionists in disguise. He served until 1859. During his administration occurred John Brown's raid. As a member of the Virginia Convention in 1861 he laboured for conciliation. He led a Confederate brigade in the Kanawha Valley and defended Roanoke Island. He wrote a book of political history called 'Seven Decades of the Union'.
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Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian. He was born in 1838 and died in 1918.
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Henry Addington (Viscount Sidmouth) was an English politician. He was born in 1757 and died in 1844. He entered parliament, in 1783, as a warm supporter of Pitt. He was elected speaker of the House of Commons in 1789, and in 1801 invited by the king to form an administration, chiefly signalized by the conclusion of the Peace of Amiens. He quarrelled with Pitt, whom he bitterly attacked. He was home secretary from 1812 until 1822, his repressive policy making him remarkably unpopular with the nation at large. He retired from official life in 1824.
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Henry Aldrich was Dean of Christchurch, Oxford. He was born in 1647 and died in 1710. He was distinguished as a writer on logic, as an architect, and as a musician. His Compendium of Logic was a text-book until the end of the 19th century. He adapted many of the works of the older musicians, such as Palestrina and Carissimi, to the liturgy of the Church of England, and composed many services and anthems, some of which are still heard in English cathedrals.
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Henry Alford was an English priest and writer. He was born in 1810 at London and died in 1871. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1833 and became a fellow of Trinity in 1834. He wrote 'The Queen's English' published in 1864 and several hymns.
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Henry Bowen Anthony was an American journalist and politician. He was born in 1815 at Coventry, Rhode Island and died in 1884. He was a Whig governor of Rhode Island from 1849 until 1851. From 1859 to 1884 he represented Rhode Island as a Republican Senator. He left a valuable collection of books upon his death, known as the Harris Library, which he left to the Brown University from whence he had graduated in 1833.
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Henry B Cleaves was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Maine from 1893 until 1897.
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Henry B Quinby was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Hampshire from 1909 until 1911.
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Henry Balnaves of Halhill was a Scottish reformer. He was born in about 1500 at Kirkcaldy and died in 1579. Educated at St Andrews he became a lord of session and a member of the Scottish parliament in 1538. He was one of the commissioners appointed in 1543 to treat of the proposed marriage between Edward VI and Mary. In 1547 he was one of the prisoners taken in the castle of St Andrews and exiled to France. Recalled in 1554, he busily engaged in the establishment of the reformed faith; assisted in revising the Book of Discipline, and accompanied Murray to England in connection with Darnley's murder.
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Henry Charlton Bastian was an English physician and biologist. He was born in 1837 at Truro in 1837 and died in 1915. He was educated at Falmouth and at University College, London, where he was assistant-curator in the museum from 1860 until 1863. He obtained the degree of M.A. in 1861 from the University of London, graduating subsequently in medicine at the same university (M.B. 1863, M.D. 1866). In 1864 to 1866 he was a medical officer in the then Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum (now Broadmoor Secure Hospital), and in the latter year was appointed lecturer on pathology and assistant-physician in St Mary's Hospital. In 1867 he became professor of pathological anatomy in University College, subsequently he was also professor of clinical medicine, and he was appointed to the chair of medicine and clinical medicine. Apart from numerous contributions to medical and other periodicals, and to Quain's Dictionary of Medicine, he wrote The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms (published in 1871); The Beginnings of Life (published in 1872); Evolution and the Origin of Life (published in 1874); Lectures on Paralysis from Brain Disease (published in 1875); and The Brain as an Organ of Mind (published in 1880), which was translated into French and German. He was also an advocate for spontaneous generation.
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Henry Bathurst (Earl Bathurst) was an English statesman. He was born in 1762 and died in 1834. He was the son of the second earl of Bathurst and was a prominent Tory politician. Various capes, islands, and districts were named after him. In 1807 he was president of the Board of Trade; in 1809, secretary for foreign affairs; and in 1812, secretary for the colonies, a post held by him for sixteen years. He was also president of the council under Wellington, from 1828 until 1830.
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Henry Bellmon was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Oklahoma from 1987 until 1991.
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Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor and engineer. He was born in 1813 and died in 1898. He invented the bessemer converter which is a three stage process for making cheap steel from pig-iron by blowing a blast of air through it when in a state of fusion, so as to clear it of all carbon, and then adding just the requisite quantity of carbon to produce steel. He was knighted in 1879.
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Sir Henry Rowley Bishop was an English composer. He was born in 1786 and died in 1855. He wrote home sweet home.
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Henry George Bohn was an English publisher. He was born in 1796 and died in 1884. He was the son of a Westphalian book-binder who settled in London in 1795. In 1846 he began issuing notable books at low cost.
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Henry Brooke was an Irish dramatist and novelist. He was born in 1703 and died in 1783. He was educated at Dublin University and was a friend of Jonathan Swift, Pope and Garrick.
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Henry C Murphy was an American politician. He was born in 1810 and died in 1882. He represented New York in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1849. He was Minister to the Netherlands from 1857 to 1861. He was a student and writer on the Dutch history of New York.
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Henry C Warmoth was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Louisiana from 1868 until 1872.
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Henry C Carey was an American political economist. He was born in 1793 and died in 1879. A son of Matthew Carey, in 1821 he established the firm of Carey & Lea, which became the leading publishing house in the country. He withdrew in 1835 and devoted himself to political economy, on which subject the most important of his writings have been translated into other languages. He viewed free trade as the ideal, and protection as the means of attaining it.
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Henry Carter Stuart was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Virginia from 1914 until 1918.
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Henry Cavendish was an English physicist. He was born in 1731 and died in 1810. He is renowned for his work on the chemistry of gasses, and also his theorems on the nature of electricity and heat.
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Henry Clay was an American statesman, orator and political leader. He was born in 1777 at the 'Slashes', Virginia and died in 1852. He studied law, and at the age of twenty moved to Kentucky. Having served in the Legislature, he was, at a very early age, elected to the US Senate, and represented Kentucky at Washington from 1806 until 1807. He was soon attached to the cause of internal improvements, with which his name became identified. In rapid succession came his term as Speaker of the Kentucky Assembly, as US Senator again from 1809 until 1811 and as member of the House, which he entered in 1811. Although a newcomer, he was immediately chosen Speaker, and served until his resignation in 1814. He was a leader of the war party which forced Madison into the contest with Great Britain. His life in Congress was interrupted in 1814, as he had been chosen one of the envoys to treat for the peace finally negotiated at Ghent in December, 1814. In 1815 he was again in the House and served continuously as its Speaker until 1821. During this period he was a powerful advocate of the Spanish-American States in insurrection, and was instrumental in effecting the Missouri Compromise.
After a brief absence from Congress he was again Speaker of the House from 1823 until 1825. In 1824 he was a candidate for the Presidency, and received thirty-seven electoral votes. In the exciting contest in the House of Representatives Adams was finally chosen President, and his appointment of Clay as Secretary of State caused not unnaturally the groundless charge of a 'bargain' between the two. Clay had ardently supported the tariff of 1824, and denominated the protective the 'American System'. While he was Secretary the principal diplomatic matter which arose was the Panama Congress. He retired from office in 1829, but in 1831 he entered the Senate from Kentucky. For twenty years he was the natural leader of the great party known first as the National Republican, but soon as the Whig. He was nominated as its candidate for President in December 1831, but was overwhelmingly defeated by Jackson.
He was active in the bank controversy and other questions of the time, and brought about the tariff compromise of 1833, and the settlement with Prance in 1835. In 1840 he failed to receive the Whig nomination, and in 1843 he retired from the Senate. The Whig National Convention of 1844 nominated him by acclamation, but Clay's trimming 'Alabama Letter' tipped the scale in favour of Polk. He re-entered the Senate in 1849, and took the foremost part in the great compromise bill of 1850. Although by far the most popular man in the party, he never again received the nomination for President. In comparison with his great colleagues he shone chiefly as a brilliant debater, magnetic platform orator and contriver of compromise measures intended to preserve the Union.
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Sir Henry Clinton was a British soldier. He was born in 1738 and died in 1795. he went to Boston as major-general in 1775 with Howe and Burgoyne. In 1778 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces. He evacuated Philadelphia in June and on his retreat thence to New York fought with George Washington the indecisive battle of Monmouth. In May, 1778, he captured Charleston and the whole army under Lincoln. During the following summer he planned with Benedict Arnold the treasonable surrender of West Point. He failed to relieve Charles Cornwallis in October, 1781, and returned to England in 1782.
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Henry Cooper is a British former boxer. He was born in 1934 at London. He was Amateur Boxing Association light-heavyweight champion in 1952 and 1953 before turning professional. In 1959 he won the British heavyweight title, beating Brian London, which he subsequently held apart from a brief spell until 1971 when he lost it to Joe Bugner in a controversial decision, and subsequently announced his retirement. In 1963 he floored Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammed Ali), though he didn't go on to win the fight. In 1966 he again fought Cassius Clay for the World Heavyweight title, and lost again. Since retiring from boxing he has been a popular figure in advertising and as a guest on television shows in the UK.
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Henry Cort was the English inventor of the processes of puddling and rolling iron. He was born in 1740 at Lancaster and died in 1800.
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Henry Octavius Coxe was an English palaeographer. He was born in 1811 at Bucklebury, Berkshire and died in 1881. In 1833 he joined the manuscript department of the British Museum being appointed sub-librarian in 1838 and becoming head librarian at the Bodleian in 1860. In 1857 he made an unsuccessful expedition to the Levant in search of manuscripts.
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Henry Cristophe was king of northern Haiti. He was born in 1767 at the British West Indies and died in 1820. Born a slave, he was a lieutenant of Toussaint L'Ouverture during the war for Haitian independence. Following the ousting of the French from Haiti, Henry Cristophe formed a separate state in northern Haiti and proclaimed himself king, ruling as king Henry I from 1811 until he shot himself following a stroke in 1820. Following his death his state was absorbed into the Haitian Republic.
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Henry D Hatfield was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of West Virginia from 1913 until 1917.
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Henry D McDaniel was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Georgia from 1883 until 1886.
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Henry Winter Davis was an American lawyer and politician. He was born in 1817 at Maryland and died in 1865. He attained considerable celebrity as a lawyer, and was elected to the Congress of the United States as a Democrat, serving from 1855 until 1861, and decided a tie vote for Speaker, in 1859, by voting for Pennington, the Republican candidate. He was again a member of Congress from 1863 until 1865, and served as chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Though representing a slave state, he was an ardent advocate of emancipation and black suffrage, but opposed the assumption of extraordinary powers by the executive.
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Henry Dawes was an American statesman. He was born in 1816. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was a Representative from Massachusetts from 1857 until 1873, and succeeded Charles Sumner in the Senate in 1875 and served until 1893. He was for a time chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the House, and was prominent in legislation for the tariff and for Indian education.
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Henry William De Saussure was an American jurist and director of the US Mint. He was born in 1763 at South Carolina and died in 1839. He was director of the US Mint from 1794 until 1795, and coined the first gold pieces issued from that mint. From 1809 to 1837 he was a chancellor of South Carolina, and was eminent as a jurist.
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Henry de Turberville was an English knight. He was a follower of King John and took part in the victory over the French fleet in the Dover Straits in 1217. he was seneschal of Gascony from 1226 until 1231 and again from 1234 until 1238. He fought in the Welsh war of 1233, capturing Carmarthen. He died in 1239.
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Henry Dearborn was an American soldier. He was born in 1751 and died in 1829. A captain at Bunker Hill, he distinguished himself at the Battle of Stillwater, Battle of Saratoga and at the Battle of Monmouth. He became a major-general in 1795. He was a US Congressman from 1793 until 1797, and Secretary of War in Jefferson's Cabinet from 1801 until 1809. From 1822 until 1824 he was US Minister to Portugal.
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Sir Henry Doulton was an English potter and inventor. He was born in 1820 and died in 1897. His father, John, was the owner of a pottery works in Lambeth, London. Henry entered the factory at the age of 15 and perfected the process of enamel glazing.
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Henry F Schricker was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Indiana from 1941 until 1945.
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Henry Fielding was an English writer. He was born in 1707 near Glastonbury and died in 1754. For some years he managed a theatre company, writing the plays himself. In 1740 he became a barrister, but continued to write and edit journals. He is best known for his satirical comedy Tom Jones, written in 1749.
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Henry Flood was an Irish statesman and orator. He was born in 1732 near Dublin and died in 1791. He was a friend of Grattan, whom afterwards he opposed, and entered the Irish Parliament as MP for Kilkenny in 1759, a seat he exchanged for Callan in the following year.
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Henry Ford was an American motor car manufacturer. He was born in 1863 and died in 1947. Henry Ford founded the Ford motor car company in 1903, and pioneered the cheap motor car with the famous Model T Ford built from 1909 to 1927. He introduced mass-production methods which revolutionised the motor industry.
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere was the South African High Commissioner, whose abortive attempt to unite South Africa resulted in the Zulu War. He was born in 1815 and died in 1884.
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Henry Fuseli was a Swiss artist. He was born in 1741 at Zurich and died in 1825. He was a friend to William Blake, and was keeper of the Royal Academy from 1804 until 1825.
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Henry G Blasdel was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Nevada from 1864 until 1871.
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Henry John Gauntlett was an English composer. He was born in 1805 at Wellington, Shropshire, and died in 1876. He primarily composed hymn tunes and chants, and made improvements to English organs.
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Henry D Gilpin was an American lawyer. He was born in 1801 and died in 1860. He was US attorney for Pennsylvania in 1832, solicitor of the US Treasury in 1837, and Attorney-General for the United States from 1840 until 1841. He was deeply interested in historical work and edited the papers of James Madison in 1840.
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Henry W Grady was an American journalist and orator. He was born in 1851 and died in 1889. He became associated with the Atlanta Constitution in 1880. He made himself the spokesman of the 'New South', and delivered a famous speech on The New South in 1886, and one upon 'The Future of the Negro' in 1889.
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Henry H Blood was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Utah from 1933 until 1941.
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Henry H Crapo was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Michigan from 1865 until 1868.
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Henry H Haight was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of California from 1867 until 1871.
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Henry H Horton was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Tennessee from 1927 until 1933.
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Henry H Markham was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of California from 1891 until 1895.
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Henry H Sibley was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Minnesota from 1858 until 1860.
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Henry H Wells was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Virginia from 1868 until 1869.
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Henry W Halleck was an American soldier. He was born in 1815 at New York and died in 1872. He graduated at the US Military Academy in 1839. He published 'Elements of Military Art and Science' in 1846, which was a classic work at that time, and a treatise on 'International Law'. He was prominent in the military and political movements in California from 1846 to 1854, and in 1861 was appointed major-general of the US army and assigned to the Department of Missouri,, and successfully organized that district. In 1862 he received command of the Mississippi Department, and was soon after appointed commander-in-chief of the army, a position he retained until Grant was made lieutenant-general. After the American Civil War he commanded the Pacific Division until 1869, and the Division of the South from 1869 to 1872.
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Sir Henry Harwood was an English naval commander. He was born in 1888 and died in 1959. He was commodore of the South American Division of the Royal Navy during the Second World War and commanded the British ships at the Battle of the River Plate at which the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was engaged and trapped (afterwards he sent a message to his men saying 'thank you, boys'). In 1942 he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet.
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Henry Horner was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Illinois from 1933 until 1940.
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Henry Hubbard was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New Hampshire from 1842 until 1844.
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Henry Hudson was an English sailor and explorer. He died in 1611. He sailed on the Hopeful in 1607 in the service of the Muscovy Company in search of a north-east passage to the Spice Islands and touched at Greenland and Spitsbergen. In 1609 he set out from Amsterdam in the Half Moon with a crew of twenty men, crossed the Atlantic and discovered and explored the Hudson river. In 1610 he sailed again to find a north-west passage, investigating the bay later called after him, there he was caught in ice. Discontent occurred among the crew who mutinied and Henry Hudson and seven others were set adrift in a small boat, never to be seen or heard again.
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Henry J Hunt was an American soldier. He was born in 1819 and died in 1889. He was prominent during the Mexican War. He served on McClellan's staff in 1861, and was chief of artillery in the Army of the Potomac from 1862 to 1865, engaging in all its battles.
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Henry I (Henry the Fowler) was King of Germany and founder of the Saxon Dynasty. He was born in 876 and died in 936.
Henry I was king of France from 1031 to 1060. He was born in 1005 and died in 1060.
Henry I was a son of William The Conqueror and King of England from 1101 to 1135. He was born in 1068 at Selby and died in 1135. His charter of liberties, his recall of Anselm, and his arrest of Flambard testified to his prudence and sagacity. Robert of Belesme persuaded Robert, Henry's elder brother, to assert his claims to the English throne. After suffering an overwhelming defeat at Tinchebrai in 1106, Robert was imprisoned in Cardiff Castle, and Normandy was united to England.
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Henry II (Henry Curtmantle) was king of England from 1154 to 1189. He was born in 1133 and died in 1189. Henry II ruled over an empire which stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. One of the strongest, most energetic and imaginative rulers, Henry was the inheritor of three dynasties who had acquired Aquitaine by marriage; his charters listed them: 'King of the English, Duke of the Normans and Aquitanians and Count of the Angevins'. The King spent only 13 years of his reign in England; the other 21 years were spent on the continent in his territories in what is now France. Henry's rapid movements in carrying out his dynastic responsibilities astonished the French King, who noted 'now in England, now in Normandy, he must fly rather than travel by horse or ship'.
By 1158, Henry had restored to the Crown some of the lands and royal power lost by Stephen; Malcom IV of Scotland was compelled to return the northern counties. Locally chosen sheriffs were changed into royally appointed agents charged with enforcing the law and collecting taxes in the counties. Personally interested in government and law, Henry made use of juries and re-introduced the sending of justices (judges) on regular tours of the country to try cases for the Crown. His legal reforms have led him to be seen as the founder of English Common Law. Henry's disagreements with the Archbishop of Canterbury (the king's former chief adviser), Thomas O Becket, over Church-State relations ended in Becket's murder in 1170 and a papal interdict on England. Family disputes over territorial ambitions almost wrecked the king's achievements. Henry died in France in 1189, at war with his son Richard who had joined forces with king Philip of France to attack Normandy.
Henry II was king of France from 1547 to 1559.
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Henry III was king of England from 1216 to 1272. He was born in 1207 at Winchester and died in 1272. Henry III was the son of John, and was only nine when he became King. By 1227, when he assumed power from his regent, order had been restored, based on his acceptance of Magna Carta. However, the King's failed campaigns in France in 1230 and in 1242, his choice of friends and advisers, together with the cost of his scheme to make one of his younger sons King of Sicily and help the Pope against the Holy Roman Emperor, led to further disputes with the barons and united opposition in Church and State. Although Henry was extravagant and his tax demands were resented, the King's accounts show a list of many charitable donations and payments for building works (including the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey which began in 1245).
The Provisions of Oxford in 1258 and the Provisions of Westminster in 1259 were attempts by the nobles to define common law in the spirit of the Magna Carta, control appointments and set up an aristocratic council. Henry tried to defeat them by obtaining papal absolution from his oaths, and enlisting King Louis XI's help. Henry renounced the Provisions in 1262 and war broke out. The barons, under their leader, Simon de Montfort, were initially successful and even captured Henry. However, Henry escaped, joined forces with the lords of the Marches (on the Welsh border), and Henry finally defeated and killed de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265. Royal authority was restored by the Statute of Marlborough in 1267, in which the King also promised to uphold the Magna Carta and some of the Provisions of Westminster.
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Henry Inman was an American painter. He was born in 1801 at New York and died in 1846. He achieved his greatest success as an American artist in portrait painting. Among his portraits are those of William Wirt, De Witt Clinton, Halleck, Van Buren, Seward and William Penn.
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Henry IV was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He was born in 1367 and died in 1413. Henry spent much of the early part of his reign fighting to keep control of his lands. Exiled for life by Richard II in 1399, Henry's successful usurpation did not lead to general recognition of his claim (he remained unrecognised as King by Charles VI of France). An outbreak of the plague in 1400 was accompanied by a revolt in Wales led by Owen Glendower. In 1403, Henry's supporters, the Percys of Northumberland, turned against him and conspired with Glendower - the Percys and the Welsh were defeated by Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. This victory was followed by the execution of other rebels at York (including the Archbishop in 1405). By 1408 Henry had gained control of the country. Henry was dogged by illness from 1405 onwards; his son played a greater role in government (even opposing the King at times). In 1413, Henry died exhausted, in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey.
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Henry J Allen was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Kansas from 1919 until 1923.
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Henry J Gardner was an American politician. He was a American governor of Massachusetts from 1855 until 1858.
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Henry James was an American writer. He was born in 1843 at New York and died in 1916. After travelling in the USA and Europe and following irregular studies in Law at Harvard, in 1856 Henry James started writing short stories and literary reviews before writing novels. He had a friendship, for a while, with HG Wells and in 1915 became a British subject and was awarded the Order of Merit.
Sir Henry James was director of the Ordnance Survey. He was born in 1803 at Rose-in-Vale and died in 1877. In 1854 he succeeded Colonel Hall as director- general of the Ordnance Survey and in 1859 introduced the art of photozincography.
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Henry Johnson was an American politician. He was a Jeffersonian Republican governor of Louisiana from 1824 until 1828.
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Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor. He was born in 1869 in London and died in 1944.
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Henry Kingsley was an English novelist. He was born in 1830 at Barnack, Northamptonshire and died in 1876. A younger brother of Charles Kingsley, he left England for the goldfields of Australia where he stayed for five years before returning to England working as a novelist and a journalist - serving as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Henry Knox was an American patriot. He was nborn in 1750 at Boston and died in 1806. A bookseller before the American Revolution. He exchanged this occupation for that of an artillery officer, fought at Bunker Hill, and obtained much credit for his transfer of ordnance in the winter of 1775 - 1776 from the Canadian frontier and the Lake George region to the army around Boston. He was made a brigadier-general of artillery, fought with distinction at. Trenton, Brandywine, Monmouth and Yorktown, and received the grade of a major-general. He was active in the Cincinnati Society, and became Secretary of War under the old Congress in 1785. George Washington reappointed him to this position, which he filled until 1795.
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Henry L Fuqua was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1924 until 1926.
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Henry L Mitchell was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Florida from 1893 until 1897.
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Henry L Whitfield was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Mississippi from 1924 until 1927.
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Henry Labouchere (Baron Taunton) was an English politician. He was born in 1798 and died in 1869. Descended from a Huguenot family, his father was a banker from Amsterdam who had emigrated to England. Educated at Winchester and at Christ Church, Oxford he entered parliament in 1826 as member for a Cornish borough and in 1832 took office in the Whig government, filling a succession of minor posts until 1839. As a cabinet minister he was president of the board of trade from 1839 until 1841 and again from 1847 until 1852 and was secretary for the colonies from 1855 until 1858. From 1846 until 1847 he was chief secretary for Ireland. In 1859 he was made a peer, being given the title of Baron Taunton, having represented Taunton in parliament since 1830. Upon his death the title became extinct.
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Henry Laurens was an American statesman. He was born in 1724 and died in 1792. He was a member of the first South Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1780, and was its president from 1777 to 1778. He was appointed Minister to Holland in 1779; was captured during the voyage by the British, and confined in prison for fifteen months. In 1781 he was appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain. In 1782 he signed the preliminary Treaty of Paris. Impaired health forced him to retire from public life.
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Henry Lee was an American insurgent and politician. He was born in 1756 at Virginia and died in 1818. Educated at Princeton, he attained distinction in the latter half of the American War of Independence as major of an insurgent corps called 'Lee's Legion', whence he derived his epithet of 'Light-Horse Harry'. In 1779 he captured Paulus Hook, and received a gold medal. In 1781 he ably covered the retreat of Greene's army, took a distinguished part at Guilford, Eutaw Springs, and the operations in the Carolinas and Georgia. He was a member of the Continental Congress, of the ratifying convention of 1788, was a Federalist, and Governor of Virginia in 1792-1795. In 1794 he led the expedition to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. As Congressman, 1799-1801, it was his lot to pronounce the eulogy on George Washington, containing the famous characterization, 'First in war', etc. His death was caused by injuries inflicted by a Baltimore mob in 1814.
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Henry Lippitt was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Rhode Island from 1875 until 1877.
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Henry Lloyd was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Maryland from 1885 until 1888.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet. He was born in 1807 at Portland and died in 1882.
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Henry M Hoyt was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 until 1883.
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Henry M Mathews was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of West Virginia from 1877 until 1881.
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Henry Massey Rector was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Arkansas from 1860 until 1862.
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Henry McBride was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Washington from 1901 until 1905.
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Henry Middleton was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of South Carolina from 1810 until 1812.
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Henry Moore was an English painter. He was born in 1831 at York and died in 1896. He painted marine pictures, producing studies of the sea and sky.
Henry Moore is an English sculptor. He was born in 1898 at Castleford.
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Sir Henry Morgan was a Welsh buccaneer. As the leader of the West Indian buccaneers he sacked Porto Bello and committed atrocities against the inhabitants. He was captured and sent to England in chains, however Charles II pardoned him and made him governor of Jamaica. He was born in 1635 and died in 1688.
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Henry Nettleship was an English Latin scholar. He was born in 1839 at Kettering, Northamptonshire and died in 1893. In 1868 he became an assistant- master at Harrow; but in 1873 returned to Oxford as lecturer, and in 1878 was elected to the Corpus professorship of Latin, an office which he held until his death.
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Henry Neville was an English political writer. He was born in 1620 in Berkshire and died in 1694. He became a member of the Council of State in 1651. Coming into conflict with Oliver Cromwell, he was forced to retire during the latter's lifetime, but re-entered Parliament in 1658. His strongly republican views were shown in his opposition to the House of Lords as an institution. In 1663 he spent a short time in the Tower under an unfounded accusation of treason.
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Henry P Baldwin was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Michigan from 1869 until 1872.
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Henry William Paget was a British soldier and statesman. He was born in 1768 and died in 1854. Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he sat in the House of Commons from 1790 until 1796 and from 1806 until 1812, then succeeding his father as the earl of Uxbridge. He served in Flanders in 1794 and commanded the British cavalry at Waterloo in 1815, losing a leg in the battle and subsequently being made the first marquis of Anglesey.
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Henry L Pinckney was an American politician. He was born in 1794 and died in 1863. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature from 1816 to 1833, and represented South Carolina in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1833 to 1837.
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Sir Henry Bart Pottinger was a distinguished British soldier and diplomat. He was born in 1789 and died in 1843 at Hong Kong. He went to India as a cadet in 1804 and soon became known for his energy and administrative ability. Rising gradually to the rank of major-general, he was, after the Afghan campaign in 1839, raised to the baronetage as a reward for his services. In 1841 he went as minister-plenipotentiary to China, and contributed much to bring hostilities to a conclusion. He was successively governor and commander-in-chief of Hong Kong in 1843 and governor of the Cape of Good Hope in 1846 and governor and commander-in-chief of Madras from 1847 to 1854.
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Henry Proctor was a British soldier. He was born in 1787 and died in1859. He went to America in 1812 as colonel in the British army. He repulsed General Hull at Amherstburg, and gained victories at Brownstown and at the River Raisin. He was repulsed from Fort Meigs by General Harrison and by Major Croghan from Fort Stephenson in 1813, and totally defeated by General Harrison at the Battle of the Thames.
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Henry Purcell was an English composer born in London in 1659. He died in 1695.
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Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He was born in 1756 and died in 1823.
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Henry Seymour Rawlinson (Baron Rawlinson of Trent) was a British soldier. He was born in 1864 and died in 1925. He served in South Africa and during the Great War at Ypres, Loos and commanded the Fourth Army at the Somme and at Amiens. From 1920 to 1925 he was Commander-in-Chief in India.
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Henry J Raymond was an American journalist. He was born in 1820 and died in 1869. He became assistant editor of the New York Tribune on its foundation in 1841. He was connected with the Courier and Enquirer from 1843 to 1851. In 1851 he established the New York Times and was of great influence as its editor. He represented New York in the US Congress as a Republican from 1865 to 1867. He wrote a 'Life of Daniel Webster' and 'The Life and Public services of Abraham Lincoln'.
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Henry H Richardson was an American architect. He was born in 1838 and died in 1886. He was the architect of Trinity Church, Boston, and many other noble structures. His architecture is noticeable for harmony and massiveness rather than for elaborate details. He was recognized as the leader of the new school of American architects.
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Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe was an English chemist. He was born in 1833 at London and died in 1915. His chief researches were on vanadium and the chemical action of light, but he was also notable for the stimulus he gave to the study of technical chemistry in Britain, and for his literary work.
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Sir Frederick Henry Royce was an English motor mechanic and car designer. He was born in 1863 and died in 1933. He designed and built his own car which so impressed C S Rolls that the two formed the famous car manufacturing partnership of Rolls-Royce.
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Henry Russell was an English composer. He was born in 1813 at Sheerness and died in 1900. For a time he was chorus-master at Her Majesty's Theatre, London. In 1833 he settled at Rochester, New York, as a music teacher, afterwards giving vocal entertainments in the United States and Canada, as he did on his return to England in 1841. The success of his tours was unprecedented. He composed more than 800 songs, including 'To The West', ' The Ivy Green', 'The Old Armchair', 'A Life on the Ocean Waves', 'Cheer, boys, cheer' and 'Woodman, spare that tree'.
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Henry S Caulfield was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Missouri from 1929 until 1933.
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Henry S Foote was an American politician. He was bron in 1800 and died in 1880. He was elected a US Senator from Mississippi in 1847, and served until 1852, when he became Governor of the State and served in that post until 1854. He was a zealous opponent of secession in the Southern convention at Knoxvllle in 1859, but served in the first two Confederate Congresses. He published 'Texas and the Texans' and 'The War of the Rebellion'.
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Henry S Johnston was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Oklahoma from 1927 until 1929.
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Henry S Thibodaux was an American politician. He was a Jeffersonian Republican governor of Louisiana during 1824.
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Henry Sacheverell was an English preacher. He was born in 1674 at Marlborough and died in 1724. He caused a sensation in 1709 by attacking the principles of the revolution settlement. This led the Whig government to have him impeached of high treason before the House of Lords. The whole Tory party united behind him, and the trial caused the ruin of the Whig party.
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American anthropologist. He was born in 1793 and died in 1864. He was regarded as an expert on Indian affairs and ethnology, studied the natural sciences and passed many years as Indian agent for the American Government in the region of the great lakes. Mackinaw was his headquarters. He led a Government expedition in 1832. At various times he was commissioned in regard to Indian matters. Besides poems, Schoolcraft wrote a number of books of travel, and works relating to American languages and antiquities.
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Henry Shrapnel was an English soldier and inventor. He was born in 1761 and died in 1842. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1779 and in 1784 started experiments at his own expense which culminated in his invention of the shrapnel shell which was adopted by the British army in 1803 and first used at the siege of Surinam in 1804 and later in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo.
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Henry Warner Slocum was an American soldier. He was born in 1827 at Delphi, New York and died in 1894. Educated at the military academy at West Point he left the army in 1856 and practised as a lawyer, but rejoined the army on the outbreak of the American Civil War. During the American Civil War he was present at both the Battles of Bull Run, Gaine's Mill, Antietam, Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg, and commanded the left wing on Sherman's famous march to the sea. In 1865 he settled at Brooklyn as a practising lawyer, also taking an active role in politics and municipal affairs.
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Henry Thomas Smart was an English composer. He was born in 1813 at London and died in 1879. A nephew of George Smart, he studied for the army and the law before turning to music and becoming organist at Blackburn, Lancashire in 1831, remaining at the post until 1836 when he became organist to several London churches. Henry Smart also composed an opera, hymns and organ music.
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Henry Smith was an American politician. He was a governor of Rhode Island during 1805.
Henry John Stephen Smith was a British mathematician. He was born in 1826 at Dublin and died in 1863. Educated privately and at Balliol College, Oxford, he became a fellow of the university and lecturer in mathematics. In 1860 he was appointed Savillian professor of geometry at Oxford University.
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Henry Smith Lane was an American politician. He was born in 1811 and died in 1881. He was a Republican member of the Indiana Legislature from 1838 to 1843. He was a lieutenant-colonel during the Mexican War. He served in the US Senate from 1861 to 1867.
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Henry Clifton Sorby was an English geologist. He was born in 1826 at Woodbourne near Sheffield and died in 1908. Educated privately, he made a study of the microscopic structure of rocks, being a pioneer in this field of research. His paper on the microscopical structure of crystals, published in 1858 made his reputation. He received the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society in 1869, and was president of the geological section of the British Association in 1880. As well as rocks, Henry Sorby also made microscopic studies of the structure of steel, animal and vegetable colourings and other things.
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh journalist and African explorer. He was born in 1841 and died in 1904. He was originally James Rowlands, but after going to America at the age of seventeen found employment with a Mr H. M. Stanley and assumed his benefactors name. After serving in the American Civil War he became a journalist and war correspondent. In 1869 he was commissioned to find Livingston, and met him on November 10th 1871 at Ujili on Lake Tanganyika, and returned to the coast at Bagamoyo, bringing with him the traveller's journals and papers.
On his return from the Ashanti expedition of 1873 - 1874 he was provided by the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald with funds for a journey across Central Africa, which he commenced from Bagamoyo on November 17th 1874. On this occasion he circumnavigated the Victoria Nyanza and Lake Tanganyika, partly surveyed the Albert Nyanza, and traced the Congo from Nyangwe, the lowest point on the Lualaba reached by Cameron and Livingstone, to the highest point reached from the ocean by Tuckey in 1816, proceeding thence to Banana. He returned to the Congo at the instance of the King of Belgium and remained there from August 1879 until June 1884. His last visit to Africa was in 1887 as leader of the Emin Pasha relief expedition, when he discovered Ruwenzori and the Albert Edward Nyanza.
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Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart was a pretender to the English throne, and the Duke of York. He was born in 1725 and died in 1807. On the death of Charles Edward in 1788 he styled himself Henry IX, king of England.
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Henry T Clark was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of North Carolina from 1861 until 1862.
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Henry T Gage was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of California from 1899 until 1903.
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Sir Henry Tate was an English art collector and sugar refiner and merchant. He was born in 1819 at Chorley, Lancashire and died in 1899. He entered a career at a sugar refinery at Liverpool and while there invented a device for cutting sugar loaves into sugar cubes for household use. This invention made his fortune. In 1890 he donated his art collection, the Tate collection and a picture gallery to the people of Britain which was housed at the 'Tate Gallery' in London. Henry Tate was made a baronet in 1898.
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Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston) was an English statesman. He was born in 1784 in Hampshire and died in 1865. He became Conservative MP for Newport, Isle of Wight in 1807 but in 1828 switched sides to the Liberals.
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Henry K Thatcher was an American sailor. He was born in 1806 and died in 1880. He commanded the USS Constellation on the Mediterranean station from 1863 to 1863. In command of the USS Colorado he led the first division of Commodore Porter's fleet in both attacks on Fort Fisher. He succeeded Farragut in command of the Western Gulf squadron at Mobile, whose surrender he secured. He was promoted rear-admiral and retired in 1868.
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Sir Henry Thompson was an English surgeon, astronomer, writer, socialite and painter. He was born in 1820 at Framlingham, Suffolk and died in 1904. A businessman, he went to London and was apprenticed to a doctor at Croydon. In 1844 he entered University College, London as a medical student. In 1850 he was made house surgeon at University College Hospital and in 1851 started as a medical practitioner in London. An FRCS in 1853, in 1866 he became professor of surgery at University College Hospital and Hunterian professor at the College of Surgeons in 1883. He specialised in surgery of the urinary organs, something he had studied in Paris. He was knighted in 1869 and made a baronet in 1899. As a socialite he was famous for his dinners for eight people, consisting of eight courses, served at eight o'clock which he called octaves. The 300th of which was attended by King George V.
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Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist and writer. He was born in 1817 at Concord and, Massachusetts died in 1862. Educated at Harvard, he worked for a time as a teacher and as a surveyor before becoming a recluse and a naturalist. He wrote 'Walden' published in 1854.
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Henry Thrale was an English brewer. He was born in 1728 and died in 1881. In 1758 he inherited his father's brewery at Offley, Hertfordshire. From 1765 until 1780 he was member of parliament for Southwark. He is famous for being a friend and host of Dr Johnson.
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Henry Timrod was an American poet. He was born in 1829 at South Carolina and died in 1867. He became popular in the American South for his war lyrics written during the American Civil War.
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Henry Duff Traill was an English writer and journalist. He was born in 1842 at Blackheath and died in 1900. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, he became a barristerand in 1871 a civil servant and a part time journalist. He was the first editor of 'Literature' and wrote biographies of Coleridge, Sterne, William III, Shaftsbury, Strafford, Lord Salisbury, Lord Cromer and Sir John Franklin as well as writing numerous letters to the Pall Mall Gazette, St James' Gazette, Saturday Review and the Daily Telegraph.
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Henry V was King of England from 1413 to 1422. Soon after his accession,
Henry V laid claim to the French crown. Stern and ruthless, Henry was a brilliant general who had gained military experience in his teens, when he fought alongside his father at the battle of Shrewsbury. In 1415, Henry set sail for France, capturing Harfleur. His offer to the French Dauphin of personal combat (Richard I and Edward III had both made similar offers in their time) was, like those of his predecessors, refused; he went on to defeat the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
In alliance with unreliable Burgundy, and assisted by his brothers (the Dukes of Clarence, Bedford and Gloucester), Henry gained control of Normandy in subsequent campaigns. By the Treaty of Troyes in 1420, he gained recognition as heir to the French throne, and married Charles VI's daughter Katherine. Well educated, Henry had a particular interest in liturgical music; he gave pensions to well-known composers of his time, and a hymn of praise to God, which he ordered sung after Agincourt, still exists. However, Henry's success was short lived and he died of dysentery in 1422 at Bois de Vincennes, France.
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Sir Henry Vane was an English politician. He was born in 1612 and died in 1663. A noted Puritan statesman, he went to Boston in 1635, and was Governor of the Massachusetts colony the next year. He sided with Mrs. Hutchinson in the celebrated Antinomian controversy. He was a member of the General Court, but soon returned to England.
He was knighted, entered Parliament, became treasurer of the navy, and was prominent in the impeachment of Strafford, as commissioner to Scotland, and member of the Westminster Assembly. In the Commonwealth he sat in the Council of State, was a Republican leader, and frequently opposed to Oliver Cromwell. He presided Over the State Council in 1659, and at the Restoration was excepted from the general pardon. Although not one of the Regicides, yet as a strong Republican he was executed by Charles II on general charges of treason. He is supposed to have invented the 'previous question' and the constitutional convention.
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Henry Vaughan was a Welsh religious poet. He was born in 1622 and died in 1695.
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Henry VI was son of Henry V and King of England from 1422 to 1461. Henry VI was born at Windsor Castle and succeeded to the thrones of England and France before the age of one, when his father Henry V and his grandfather Charles VI of France died within months of each other. Henry was crowned King of England in 1429 and, in 1431, King of France. His minority was dominated by his uncles Cardinal Beaufort and the Duke of Gloucester (who opposed each other). Another uncle, the Duke of Bedford, was Regent of France; his death in 1435, combined with Burgundy breaking the alliance with England, led to the collapse of English rule in northern France. The dual monarchy proved too difficult for the King and England to maintain; the successes of the Dauphin and Joan of Arc began to weaken England's grip on its French possessions and Normandy was lost in 1450.
Henry's cultural patronage and genuine interest in education (he founded Eton and King's College, Cambridge) were outweighed by his patchy and partisan interest in administration. Failure in France and domestic unrest including the Cade rebellion of 1450 encouraged factionalism. In 1453 the King became ill and Richard, Duke of York, was made Protector in 1454. The King recovered in 1455, but civil war between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions broke out (the Wars of the Roses). For the rest of his reign, Henry's queen, Margaret of Anjou, was determined to fight, rather than negotiate a compromise, for the Lancastrian cause of her husband and son. Pitted against Henry was the Duke of York, asserting his legitimate claim to the throne as he was descended by his mother from Edward III's second surviving son (Henry VI was descended from Edward's third surviving son). The Duke of York was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460. In 1461, his son Edward, an able commander, defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton. London opened its gates to the Yorkist forces; Henry and his queen fled to Scotland.
An unsuccessful military campaigner, Henry was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1465, but was restored to the throne in 1470. His brief period of freedom ended after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 at which his son Edward, Prince of Wales was killed, when the Yorkist Edward IV regained the throne, and Henry was executed in the Tower of London.
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Henry VII was the first Tudor King of England from 1485 to 1509. Although supported by Lancastrians and Yorkists alienated by the previous king, Richard III's usurpation, Henry VII's first task after becoming king was to secure his position. In 1486 he married Elizabeth of York, the eldest daughter of Edward IV, thus uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster and bringing to a close, once and for all, the civil unrest which had been the Wars Of The Roses. Henry's reign was troubled by revolts, sometimes involving pretenders (such as Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel) who impersonated Edward V or his brother. In 1485, Henry formed a personal bodyguard from his followers known as the 'Yeomen of the Guard'. Henry strengthened the power of the monarchy by using traditional methods of government to tighten royal administration and increase revenues (reportedly including a daily examination of accounts). Royal income rose from an annual average of 52,000 to 142,000 pounds by the end of Henry's reign. Little co-operation was
required between the King and Parliament; during Henry's reign of 24 years, only seven Parliaments sat for a mere ten and a half months. Henry used dynastic royal marriages to establish his dynasty in England, and help maintain peace. One daughter, Margaret, was married to James IV of Scotland (from whom Mary, Queen of Scots and her son, James VI of Scotland and James I of England, were descended); the other daughter married Louis XII of France. Henry spent money shrewdly and left a full treasury on his death in 1509.
Henry VII encouraged the exploration of what was to becone the USA. On March the 5th, 1495, Henry VII granted to John Cabot, his three sons, their heirs and assigns, a patent for the discovery of unknown lands in the Eastern, Western and Northern seas, with a right to occupy such territories and to have exclusive commerce with them, paying to the king one-fifth part of all the profits. The enterprise was to be 'at their own proper cost and charge'. In his book of private expenses for 1497 there is an item, 'To him that found the new isle, £10', no doubt referring to Cabot.
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Henry VIII (nicknamed Copper Nose) was King of England from 1509 to 1547. Henry VIII was 17 when he became king. His first wife, Catherine of Aragon, provided him with a daughter, Mary, but no male heir. In order to divorce her, he broke with the Roman Catholic Church and declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England. Five subsequent marriages produced two children, Elizabeth and Edward (later Edward VI). The break with Rome led to the Dissolution of the Monasteries (in which monastic lands and buildings were sold or disposed of, and the monks disbanded or imprisoned) and the beginnings of the English Reformation. Henry's involvement in European politics brought him into conflict with the Scots who were defeated at Solway Moss in 1542 (the Scots had been defeated before at the Battle of Flodden in 1513). Control of Wales was strengthened by the Acts of Union of 1536 and 1542 which united England and Wales administratively and legally, and gave Wales representation in Parliament. Henry died in 1547, leaving his sickly 10-year-old son to inherit the throne as Edward VI.
Henry's nickname of copper nose came about after, having spent the money left him by his miserly father, he minted inferior silver coins. The silver soon wore away from the prominent parts of the coins, notably the king's nose, revealing the base copper below, and the nickname was born.
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Henry Vizetelly was an English writer. He was born in 1820 and died in 1894. He pioneered the illustrated press, starting the Pictorial Times in 1843, the Illustrated Times in 1855 and was Paris correspondent of the Illustrated London News in 1865. He wrote the novel The Man With The Iron Mask in 1870.
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Henry W Allen was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1864 until 1865.
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Henry W Keyes was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Hampshire from 1917 until 1919.
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Henry Wace was an English churchman. He was born in 1836 and died in 1924. He was professor of ecclesiastic history at King's College, London in 1875 and principal in 1883. In 1903 he became dean of Canterbury.
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Henry Ware was an American theologian. He was born in 1764 and died in 1845. He was Hollis professor of divinity in Harvard College from 1805 to 1840. His acceptance caused the separation of the Unitarians, of whom he became a leader, from the Orthodox Congregationalists.
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Henry Watkins Collier was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Alabama from 1849 until 1853.
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Henry Wheaton was an American journalist and statesman. He was born in 1785 at Rhode Island and died in 1848. He edited the New York National Advocate from 1812 to 1815, in which the question of neutral rights was ably discussed during the American Civil War. From 1816 to 1827 he was reporter for the US Supreme Court. His reports are exceedingly valuable, containing carefully prepared notes and citation of authorities on all difficult points. He was Charge d'Affaires in Denmark from 1827 to 1835, Minister Resident to Prussia from 1835 to 1837, and Minister Plenipotentiary from 1837 to 1846. He wrote 'Elements of International Law', a 'History of the Law of Nations', and a 'History of the Northmen'.
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Henry Wilson was an American politician. He was born in 1812 at New Hampshire and died in 1875. He was in his early life a farmer, and a shoemaker in Natick, Massachusetts. He was a Whig member of the Massachusetts Legislature, but renounced the Whig policy at the convention of 1848, and aided in forming the Free-Soil party. In 1853 he was the defeated Free-Soil candidate for Governor. A coalition of parties sent him to the US Senate in 1855, and he was continued there by Republican votes until 1873. Senator Henry Wilson was one of the principal opponents of slavery. During the American Civil War he was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. When President Grant was re-nominated in 1872, Senator Henry Wilson received the second place on the ticket. They carried the country, and Henry Wilson was Vice-President from 1873 until 1875. He wrote various historical works, chief of which is 'Rise and Fall of the Slave Power', published in three volumes.
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Henry Wisner was an American politician. He was born in 1725 and died in 1790. He was a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. He supported the insurgents during the Revolution by the manufacture of munitions. He opposed the adoption of the American Constitution as creating too centralized a government.
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Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish novelist. He was born in 1846 and died in 1916.
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Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton was an English colonist. He was born in 1573 and died in 1624. He was active in the colonization of America, sending, among others, expeditions under Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602, and under Lord Arundel in 1605. He was treasurer (i. e., president) of the Virginia Company from 1620.
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Heodwulf was king of Bernicia in 572.
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The Heraclidae were descendants of Hercules, who were expelled from the Peloponnesus about 1200 BC, but reconquered it around 1100 BC.
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Herbert Adams was an American sculptor. He was born in 1858 and died in 1945. After serving an apprenticeship in the USA, he studied in Paris between 1885 and 1890. One of his best known works is the McMillan Fountain in Washington DC.
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Herbert Henry Asquith was an English politician. He was born in 1852 at Morley, Yorkshire and died in 1928. Educated at the City of London School and Balliol College Oxford he was called to the Bar in 1876 and became a QC in 1890. From 1886 until 1918 he was Liberal member of parliament for East Fife, being Home Secretary from 1892 until 1895 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 until 1908. From 1908 until 1916 he was prime minister, resigning in 1916 over a lack of progress in the Great War. He lost his seat in 1918 only to return to parliament in 1920 as member of Paisley as an Independent Liberal, rejoining the Liberal party and becoming leader from 1923 until 1926. In 1925 he was created the first earl of Oxford and Asquith. He | 
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