206 A Tribute to the Memory of 
tion of females, and for many years con- 
ducted a respectable boarding school, first at 
Wrexham in North Wales, and afterwards 
in Manchester. 
It was at the former place that Mr. Henry 
was born, on the 26th of October, O. S. in 
the year 1734. For some years, he remained 
under the tuition of his mother, who was ad- 
mirably fitted for the task, and of whom he 
was always accustomed to speak with the 
warmest affection and gratitude. Ata pro- 
per age, he was sent to the Grammar School 
of Wrexham, at that time in considerable 
repute. There he was fortunate in having, 
for his first classical instructor, the Rev. Mr. 
Lewis, whose virtues and talents are the sub- 
ject of an elegant Latin epitaph, copied by 
Mr. Pennant into his Tour through Wales.* 
At this school, Mr. Henry remained for se- 
veral years, and made such proficiency in his 
classical studies, as to have attained the fore- 
most station, with the exception only of Mr. 
Price, who was afterwards well known as the 
keeper of the Bodleian Library in the Uni- 
versity of Oxford. 
The inclination of Mr. Henry, from early 
life, led him to the church; and it was 
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