William Henry (clergyman)

William Henry D.D. (d. 1768) was an Anglo-Irish cleric, who became Dean of Killaloe and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Life

Henry graduated M.A. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1748, and B.D. and D.D. in 1750. He was the friend and chaplain to Josiah Hort, through whom he was collated to the benefice of Killesher in County Fermanagh, 1 October 1731. He later became rector of Urney, County Tyrone, in 1734.[1]

Henry was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London on 20 February 1755, and became Dean of Killaloe 29 November 1761.[1] His promotion as dean he owed to the patronage of the Shelburnes, John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, a connection via Hort and the linen manufacture of Ballymote.[2]

Henry died in Dublin on 13 Feb. 1768, and was interred at St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street there. He was an advocate for temperance, and for civil and religious liberty.[1]

Works

Henry had three of his papers, read before the Royal Society, in the Philosophical Transactions, one being The Copper Springs in County Wicklow (1753). A Description of Lough Erne in Ireland was edited by Sir Charles King (Dublin, 1892), from manuscript.[1]

At least 12 of Henry's sermons were printed.[1] He also wrote pamphlets against the Jacobites, and Charles Lucas.[3] He used the pseudonym "W. Hiberno-Britannus".[4]

Family

Henry's wife survived him. Remarrying with Surgeon Doyle of Dublin whom she also survived, she died in February or March 1793.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Henry, William (d.1768)". Dictionary of National Biography 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ↑ Melanie Barber; Gabriel Sewell; Stephen Taylor (2010). From the Reformation to the Permissive Society: A Miscellany in Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Lambeth Palace Library. Boydell & Brewer. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-84383-558-5.
  3. ↑ Garnham, Neal. "Henry, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12980. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ James Kennedy, W. A. Smith, A. F. Johnson. Ardent Media. p. 129. GGKEY:RDA0BW9NEK5.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Henry, William (d.1768)". Dictionary of National Biography 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.