102 MEMOIR OF THE LATE DR. HENRY. 
that energy of resolution and purpose, which 
throughout life 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 froma distance, and among others, those 
of the Marquis of Waterford, attended by their 
accomplished tutor Mr. de Polier. On the estab- 
lishment of an Academy in Manchester, which 
has since been removed to York, Mr. Harrison 
was chosen to fill the chair of classical literature. 
His pupil had made such rapid progress as to be 
permitted, though considerably under the cus- 
tomary age for admission, to follow his preceptor 
to this enlarged sphere of competition. Here, 
though struggling with older and more advanced 
classmates, his diligence and ardour were re- 
warded 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 leavmg the Academy, Dr. 
