ANNALS 



OF 



PHILOSOPHY. 



SEPTEMBER, 1819. 



Article I. 



A Tribute to the Memory of ike late Thomas Henry, F.R.S. 

 3)'C. $$c. President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester. By William Henry, M.D. F.R.S. &c.* 



JL HE following tribute to the memory of the late President of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society 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 II ; and during the disturbed times, 

 which, in Ireland, succeeded the revolution, was shot by au 

 assassin in his own garden. The father of Mr. Henry, then an 

 infant scarcely a year old, was taken under the generous protec- 

 tion of a neighbouring nobleman ; + and, after being educated 

 in Dublin at his lordship's expense, was brought over by him 

 into Wales, when he had nearly attained the age of manhood. 



• Read before the Literary and I'hi)o$o|>hical Society of Manchester, 

 t Viscount Bulkley. 



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