1819.] the late Mr. Thomas Henry. 163 



an apothecary at Oxford. In this situation, he was treated by 

 Mr. Malbon with the indulgence and confidence of a friend; 

 and his time was chiefly spent in visiting patients of the higher 

 class, a majority of whom were members of the University. 

 Among the students at Oxford were several, who, recognizing 

 Mr. Henry as a former associate, renewed their acquaintance 

 with him, and afforded him the most friendly countenance. His 

 leisure hours were, therefore, spent most agreeably and profitably 

 in the different colleges ; and his taste for literary pursuits was 

 encouraged and confirmed. At Oxford, he had an opportunity 

 of attending a course of anatomical lectures, in which the cele- 

 lebrated John Hunter, then a young man, was employed as 

 demonstrator. 



From Mr. Malbon, who was become affluent, Mr. Henry 

 received a strong; mark of esteem and confidence in the offer of 



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a future partnership. To have accepted this, it would have been 

 necessary that he should have qualified himself to matriculate, 

 which would have required the completion of a residence of 

 seven years. But other views in life, which were inconsistent 

 with so long a season of expectation, induced him to decline the 

 proposal ; and in the year 1759, he settled at Knutsfcrd, where 

 he soon afterwards married. After remaining five years at this 

 place, he embraced the opportunity of succeeding to the business 

 of a respectable apothecary in Manchester ; where he continued 

 for nearly half a century to be employed in medical attendance, 

 for the most part on the more opulent inhabitants of the town 

 and neighbourhood. 



Soon after Mr. Henry's settlement in Manchester, the late 

 Dr. Percival removed to the same town from Warrington. That 

 eminent physician was early inspired with the same ardent zeal 

 for the cultivation of professional and general knowledge, which 

 afterwards so much distinguished him. Congeniality of taste 

 and pursuits led to a frequent intercourse between Dr. Percival 

 and the subject of this memoir; and the moral qualities of each 

 cemented their connexion into a friendship, which continued 

 without interruption until it was terminated by the death of Dr. 

 Percival, in 1804. It was about the same early period that he 

 formed an acquaintance with that excellent man, and upright 

 magistrate, the late Mr. Bayley, of Hope-Hall, and much of the 

 happiness of his future life was owing to the mutual esteem and 

 confidence, and to the frequent intercourse, which continued to 

 exist between them for more than thirty years.* 



During his apprenticeship, Mr. Henry nad manifested a 

 decided taste for chemical pursuits, and had availed himself of 

 all the means in his power, limited as indeed they were, to 

 become experimentally acquainted with that science. This 

 taste he continued to indulge after his settlement in life ; and, 



• An interesting liiographical sketch of Mr. Bayley, written by Dr. Percival, 

 *upraicd in one uf the volume! of the Monthly Magazine for the year 1802. 



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