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HENLEY 



Campaign of Fredericks burg. In the 

 same year he joined the teaching 

 staff at Sandhurst, and in 1892 be- 

 came professor of military history 

 at the staff college, where he re- 

 mained until 1899. 



He was director of military in- 

 telligence during the earlier part 

 of the S. African War, and he was 

 just beginning the official history 

 of that struggle when he died in 

 Egypt, March 5, 1903. Regarded 

 as the first military historian of 

 his day, Henderson's great work 

 was Stonewall Jackson and the 

 American Civil War, 1898. He 

 also wrote a monograph on Spich- 

 eren, 1898. His lectures and papers 

 were published as The Science of 

 War in 1905 ; this volume was 

 edited by Colonel Neil Malcolm 

 and contained a memoir by Earl 

 Roberts. 



Hendon. Urban district and 

 village of Middlesex, England. It 

 stands on high ground, near the 

 river Brent, 8 m. N.W. of London, 

 with a station on the M.R., and has 

 motor-'bus connexion with Golder's 

 Green and the City, while electric 

 trams run from Cricklewood to 

 beyond Edgware. The main 

 street, called The Burroughs, runs 

 S.W. to Station Road, which leads 

 to the Edgware Road, by the 

 Brent Reservoir, where are the 

 Upper Welsh Harp and the Old 

 Welsh Harp, popular holiday re- 

 sorts, with boating and fishing ac- 

 commodation. W. of the rly. line 

 are the Hendon Asylum (Central 

 London Sick Asylum) and the 

 London Aerodrome, the principal 

 aviation centre in Great Britain. 

 Near by are the works of the 

 Grahame- White Aviation Co., Ltd. 

 The district is rapidly growing. 



On a summit N. of the village 

 is the old Perpendicular parish 

 church of S. Mary, partly rebuilt 

 in 1827, and notable for its battle- 

 mented tower, ancient roof, glass, 

 and monuments, which include an 

 effigy of Sir William Rawlinson (d. 

 1703). In the churchyard, which 

 commands fine views towards 



Hendon. Pariso cnurcn 01 at. luary's. troin the 

 south-east 



Harrow, Stanmore, Mill Hill, and 

 Totteridge, are the graves of Wool- 

 ner, the sculptor, and Emily, first 

 wife of Coventry Patmore, the 

 poet. The manor house was the 

 occasional residence of the abbots 

 of Westminster ; on its site is Ten- 

 terden House, sometime the home 

 of Lord Chief Justice Tenterden (d. 

 1832). Hendon Hall was the home 

 of Garrick. who owned the manor 

 Hendon derived its name from 

 Heandune or Highdown, and is 

 mentioned as Handone in Domes- 

 day. It gives its name to a co. 

 division returning one member to 

 Parliament. There are a number 

 of almshouses. Pop (1921) 56,014. 

 See Aerodrome. 



Hengelo. Town of the Nether- 

 lands, in the prov. of Overijssel. It 

 stands on a small stream, 27 m. E. 

 of Deventer, and is an important 

 rly. junction of several lines. The 

 principal industry is the manu- 

 facture of textiles. Pop. 25,231. 



Hengist. Anglo-Saxon chief, 

 reputed the leader of the first 

 Anglo-Saxon invaders of England. 

 The story is that the British king 

 Vortigern invited the Anglo- 

 Saxons, or some people of kindred 

 race, to come over and help him 

 against his enemies. Under Hen- 

 gist and his brother Horsa, they 

 came in or about 450, landing at 

 Ebbsfleet in Kent. They settled 

 in Thanet, becoming little kings ; 

 but they soon quarrelled with the 

 British, and in a fight near Ayles- 

 ford in 455, Horsa was killed. Hen- 

 gist reigned until 488, leaving a 

 son Oisc. 



Hengler's Circus. Amphi- 

 theatre, formerly in Argyll Street, 

 Regent Street, London, W. It was 

 built by Frederick Charles Hengler 

 in 1871, and rebuilt, 1884, on the 

 site of Argyll House, a residence 

 of the ducal family of Argyll and 

 later of the 4th earl of Aberdeen. 

 The site of Hengler's Circus, which 

 combined equestrian displays with 

 spectacular performances by chil- 

 dren, is now occupied by the Pal- 

 ladium music-hall. 



||M u B|B Henin. Village 



and hill in 

 France. The vil- 

 lage, known as 

 Henin - sur - Cojeul, 

 is in the dept. of 

 Pas-de-Calais. It 

 lies to the E. of the 

 Arras-Bap au me 

 road, 5 m. S.E. of 

 Arras. It was cap- 

 tured by the British 

 on April 3, 1917. 

 Here in March, 

 1918, the British 

 3rd division made 

 a great s t an d 

 against the German 



offensive towards Arras, which the 

 Germans aimed at capturing by a 

 flank assault between Henin and 

 Lagnicourt. 



Henin was yielded after a stiff 

 resistance and was recaptured by 

 the 52nd division, August 24, 1918. 

 Henin Hill, near by, taken by the 

 Germans, March 22, 1918, was the 

 scene of a fine stand by the llth 

 Suffolk regt. and the 40th Machine- 

 gun battalion. Henin- Li etard, a 

 town in the dept. of Pas-de- 

 Calais, is 16 m. E.S.E. of Bethune, 

 and has coal mines. Pop. 15,000. 

 See Arras, Battles of; Somme 

 Battles of the. 



Heninel. Village of France, in 

 the dept. of Pas-de-Calais. Situated 

 2 m. N.E. of Henin-sur-Cojeul, it 

 was captured by the British on 

 April 12, 1917, together with Wan- 

 court and a section of the Hinden- 

 burg line to the S. of the Cojeul. 

 Recaptured by the Germans in 

 their spring offensive of 1918, it 

 was retaken by the British, Aug. 26, 

 1918. See Arras, Battles of. 



Henley, WALTER DE. Medieval 

 writer of 'the 13th century. His 

 reputation rests entirely on his 

 book on husbandry. Written in 

 French, this was long regarded as 

 the standard book of the kind, a 

 fact attested by the many existing 

 manuscripts and by its translation 

 into English, Welsh, and Latin. 

 There is a modern translation pub- 

 lished by the Royal Historical 

 Society. Henley was probably a 

 Dominican monk. See Agriculture. 

 Henley, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849- 

 1903). British poet, playwright, 

 critic, and journalist. Born at 

 Gloucester, 

 Aug. 23, 1849, 

 he was edu- 

 cated at the 

 Crypt Gram- 

 mar School of 

 that town, 

 where Thomas 

 Edward Brown, 

 the Manx poet, 

 W. fc. Henley, was one of his 

 British poet masters. Tuber- 



Zlliott&Fry culoug ^^ 



of the leg threatening him with the 

 loss of a limb, in 1873 he went to 

 Edinburgh to be treated by Prof. 

 ( afterwards Lord ) Lister. The lim b 

 was saved after twenty months in 

 hospital, during which time he was 

 visited by Stevenson, who became 

 his intimate friend. 



After leaving hospital, Henley 

 devoted himself to literary work, 

 settling in London in 1877. He 

 edited successively the weekly 

 paper London, The Magazine of 

 Art, The Scots (afterwards the 

 National) Observer, and The New 

 Review ; and was a frequent con- 

 tributor, chiefly of critical articles, 



