2 Biographical Memoir of the late Dr Henry. 



at the time to endanger life and materially to check his growth, 

 and left as its consequence acute neuralgic pains, which recur- 

 red often after long intervals of remission, and with peculiar se- 

 verity some months before his death. His fortitude, while yet 

 a child, in supporting the sudden paroxysms of pain, which 

 were often so intense as to oblige him to rest in the streets, was 

 most remarkable ; — and, in his efforts to banish the perception 

 of physical suffering by an absorbing mental occupation, he al- 

 ready manifested that energy of resolution and purpose, which 

 throughout Ufe compelled a feeble bodily frame to keep pace 

 with the exertions of an ardent and unfatigued spirit. 



Dr Henry's earliest instructor was the Rev. Ralph Harrison, 

 whose repute, as a teacher of the ancient languages, was so 

 widely spread, as to draw to Manchester the sons of persons of 

 rank from a distance, and, among others, those of the Marquis 

 of Waterford, attended by their accomplished tutor Mr de Po- 

 ller. On the establishment of an Academy in Manchester, which 

 has since been removed to York, Mr Harrison was chosen to 

 fiU the chair of classical literature. His pupil had made such 

 rapid progress as to be permitted, though considerably under 

 the customary age for admission, to follow his preceptor to this 

 enlarged sphere of competition. Here, though struggling with 

 older and more advanced classmates, his dihgence and ardour 

 were rewarded by the approbation of his academic superiors, 

 and he received in the prize allotted to him — an elegant copy 

 of Virgil — the earliest of those literary distinctions, which, 

 throughout life, constituted the main objects of his ambition. 



Immediately after leaving the academy, Dr Henry had the 

 good fortune to succeed Dr Holme as an inmate in the house 

 of that accomplished scholar and enlightened physician the late 

 Dr Percival. A constant liability to violent headachs, com- 

 bined with weak eyesight, prevented Dr Percival from writing 

 or reading with the vigour and continuity essential to his va- 

 rious literary pursuits. It was the duty, therefore, of Dr 

 Henry and of other young persons, who occupied the same 

 place before or after him, to read aloud to Dr Percival, and to 

 conduct, after his dictation, the extensive cori'espondence which 

 he maintained with those most eminent in science and in letters. 

 Dr Percival's style was peculiarly correct and elegant ; and his 



