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he was paying and receiving teller 

 in the First National Bank, and 

 afterwards joined the staff of The 

 Post in Hous- 

 ton. In 1898 he 

 began to write 

 short stories for 

 the magazines, 

 of which twelve 

 volumes have 

 been collected. 



Among the 

 best of his 

 0. Henry, stories are The 



American author TrimmedLamp, 

 The Last of the Troubadours, The 

 Passing of Black Eagle, The Fur- 

 nished Room, The Defeat of the 

 City, The Cop and the Anthem, 

 The Last Leaf, The Lost Blend, 

 Vanity and Some Sables, Lost on 

 Dress Parade, Roses, Ruses and 

 Romance, and Little Speck in 

 Garnered Fruit. Henry died in 

 New York, June 5, 1910. See O. 

 Henry, a biography, C. A. Smith, 

 1916. 



Henry, PATRICK (1736-99). 

 American orator and statesman. 

 Born at Studley. Hanover county, 

 Virginia, May 

 29, 1736, he 

 was of Scot- 

 tish-Welsh de- 

 scent. Unsuc- 

 cessful as a 

 farmer and 

 tradesman, he 

 took up law, 

 and rapidly 

 built up an 

 extensive 

 practice. As 

 a member 

 of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 

 he violently attacked the Stamp 

 Act of 1765 and favoured an im- 

 mediate rupture. A delegate to 

 the Continental Congress of 1774, 

 at the Virginia Convention of 1775 

 by an eloquent speech he induced 

 the members to pass resolutions for 

 armin.a the state. While governor 

 of Virginia, in 1788, at the Con- 

 vention assembled to ratify the 

 federal constitution, he opposed its 

 introduction as calculated to in- 

 fringe therights of individual states. 

 He died June 6, 1799. See Life, 

 Correspondence, and Speeches of 

 Patrick Henry, W. W. Henry, 1891 ; 

 The True Patrick Henry, G. Mor- 

 gan, 1907. 



Henry OF HUNTINGDON. English 

 chronicler. A cleric in the diocese 

 of Lincoln, Henry lived in the early 

 part of the 12th century and wrote 

 a History of the English from the 

 coming of Julius Caesar to the 

 reign of Henry II. The value of the 

 work is depreciated by the author's 

 reliance upon ill-authenticated 

 tradition and his occasional indul- 

 gence of his imagination. The His- 



toria Anglorum was published in 

 the Rolls Series in 1879 and has 

 been translated into English. 



Henry THE LION (1129-1195). 

 German prince. The son of Henry 

 the Proud, duke of Bavaria and 

 Saxony, he belonged to the Welf 

 family. In 1 139, when only a boy, 

 he became duke of Saxony and 

 Bavaria, but his friends had to 

 fight for his rights, which were 

 threatened by Conrad II. In 1 142, 

 however, peace was made ; Henry 

 gave up Bavaria, and kept Saxony. 



As duke of Saxony he made his 

 name. He greatly extended its 

 boundaries by driving back or con- 

 quering the heathen tribes beyond 

 the Elbe. He recovered Bavaria, 

 being granted the duchy by the 

 emperor Frederick I, who was 

 anxious for his assistance in his 

 Italian wars. This Henry gave, 

 until, in 1175, he refused to go to 

 Italy to Frederick's help. 



In 1181 the emperor invaded 

 Saxony, and the duke soon sub- 

 mitted. Of his great possessions he 

 was allowed to keep Brunswick 

 and Liineburg only, while he was 

 banished until 1185. He died 

 Aug. 6, 1195. Henry, who married 

 Matilda, daughter of Henry II of 

 England, was ancestor of the elec- 

 tors of Hanover and kings of Great 

 Britain. See Frederick I ; Saxony. 



Henry THE MINSTREL OB BLIND 

 HARRY (d. c. 1492). Scottish poet 

 and reciter. Said to have been a 

 native of Lothian, and blind from 

 his birth, he made a living by 

 reciting a poem of his own compo- 

 sition, into which he wove all the 

 traditional stories about William 

 Wallace. There are several entries 

 in the royal treasurer's accounts of 

 payments to him, 1490-92. His 

 poem, written in the Lothian 

 dialect, and consisting of more than 

 5,000 couplets, exists in a MS., 

 dated 1488, preserved in the 

 Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. 

 A modernised version, by William 

 Hamilton, of Gilbertfield, 1722, 

 was long popular in Scotland. See 

 A Critical Study of Blind Harry, 

 J. Moir, 1888. 



Henry (1394-1 460). Portuguese 

 prince, called the Navigator. Son 

 of King John I, he was born at 

 Oporto, March 

 4, 1394. His 

 mother was a 

 daughter of 

 John of Gaunt. 

 He took part 

 in the conquest 

 of Ceuta, 1415. 

 He began to 

 send out sailors 

 on vovaees of Henry tne Ma vigator. 

 discovery, Portu e uese P" n <> e 

 and with intervals continued his 

 work for nearly 50 years. He 



himself went on one or two voy- 

 ages, but he was mainly occupied 

 with organizing and financing the 

 expeditions. He made his home at 

 Sagres, where he erected an ob- 

 servatory, set on foot something 

 like a college of navigation, and 

 had an arsenal. He died at Sagres, 

 Nov. 13, 1460. See Africa. 



Henry VH's Chapel. Eastern 

 extension of Westminster Abbey 

 (q.v.). Founded by the king after 

 whom it is named, it replaced the 

 13th century Lady Chapel in 1503- 

 19. Henry VII intended it to be 

 the shrine of Henry VI, who is 

 buried at Windsor ; it became his 

 own burial place. At the E. end, 

 in the apse, are five small chapels ; 

 the nave or central chapel is divided 

 from the S. aisle or Margaret 

 Chapel, and the N. aisle or Eliza- 

 beth Chapel, by the stalls of the 

 knights and esquires of the order 

 of the Bath (q.v.). In length 104 

 ft., breadth 70 ft., unrivalled in its 

 sculpture, the fan tracery of its 

 roof, its stone statues of saints, 

 beautiful specimens of later me- 

 dieval art, stone panelling and 

 traceried windows, it is the finest 

 example of late Perpendicular ar- 

 chitecture in the kingdom. The 

 name of its architect is unknown. 



On the large oaken and bronze- 

 covered doors, the grille surround- 

 ing Henry VTI's tomb, and in the 

 E. window are badges or emblems 

 symbolical of Henry's claim to the 

 throne. In the vault beneath the 

 tomb, the work of Pietro Torri- 

 giano, rest Henry VII, his wife 

 Elizabeth of York, and James I. 

 Below the altar Edward VI was 

 buried. Near is the pulpit said to 

 be Cranmer s ; W. of the altar were 

 interred George II and Caroline of 

 Anspach. In the N.E. chapel of 

 the apse is the grave of Anne of 

 Denmark ; in the S.E. chapel the 

 graves of Dean Stanley and his 

 wife, Lady Augusta Stanley. In 

 the S. or Margaret Chapel are the 

 tombs of Margaret, countess of 

 Lennox, Mary Queen of Scots, and 

 Margaret Beaufort, and the graves 

 of Charles II, many other members 

 of the Stuart line, Mary II, William 

 III, Queen Anne and her husband, 

 Prince George of Denmark. Im- 

 pressive features of the N. aisle or 

 Elizabeth Chapel are the tomb of 

 Queen Elizabeth, whose coffin 

 rests on that of her half-sister, 

 Queen Mary ; a small urn contain- 

 ing bones supposed to be those of 

 the two princes who were murdered 

 in the Tower, Edward V and 

 Richard of York ; monuments of 

 the princesses Sophia and Mary, 

 infant children of James I ; and the 

 grave of Addison. Henry VII's 

 Chapel was " restored " by Wyatt 

 in 1807-22. See Fan-tracery ; Font. 



