THE 



QUAHTERLY JOURNAL, 



October, 1819. 



Art. I. A Tribute to the Memorij of the late President of the 

 Literari/ and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Py 

 William Henry, M.D., F.R.S., ^c. 8fc. 



[This account of the life of the late Mr. William Henrv was read to the 

 Literary Society of Manchester, in April 1817.] 



1 HE following Tribute to the memory of the late President of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester has been drawn 

 up in compliance with a request, expressed to the writer from the 

 chair, at an early meeting during the present session. It would, 

 on some accounts, have been more satisfactory to him, that the 

 office should have fallen into other hands. But, conceiving a 

 compliance with the requisition to be a duty, which he was not 

 at liberty to decline, he has endeavoured to execute it with all 

 the impartiality and fidelity in his power ; and he trusts to the 

 candour of the Society for that share of indulgence, which he 

 may reasonably claim, in speaking of one to whom he was so 

 nearly allied. 



The late Mr. Henry was descended from a respectable 

 family, which for several generations, had resided in the county 

 of Antrim. His paternal grandfather commanded a company 

 of foot in the service of James the Second ; and during the dis- 

 turbed times, which, in Ireland, succeeded the revolution, was 

 shot by an assassin in his own garden. The father of Mr. 

 Henry, then an infant scarcely a year old, was taken under the 

 generous protection of a neighbouring nobleman*, who con- 

 tinued it to him during the remainder of his life ; and, after 

 being educated in Dublin at his lordship's expense, was brought 



* Visrount Bulkley. 



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