API'KN Dl X 



14) 



notice of hi* early life communicate! l.v 

 Hem ! H3 to the editor of the GSttingen J/opmiM of 



i>n,v ,,W /.it'nifur,; H-r- h-1 H^l ft* f tis*4 prf < 



his rwitlrnoe in England which preceded hin discovery by 

 Dr. Wat> 79. What he doea aay may be summed 



hi* own worda : 



I remained ' .irmy, however, until I reached my 



nineteenth year [1757], when I resigned and want over to 

 England. My familiarity with the organ, which I had 

 carefully mastered previously, soon procured for me the 

 position of my . Yorkshire, which I finally eTrhiiifsd 



for a similar situation at Bath in 1766, and while here the 



tr in u instances of my post, as agreeable as it was 



i.i.lf it |xvsil>l> for me to occupy myself once more 



S especially with mathematics" > " A similar 



.situation at Bath in 1766" seems to refer to the Octagon 



Chapel, and is so stated in his sister's Memoir* But there 



are serious objections to this account of his removal from 



Halifax to Bath. 



October 1822 there appeared in the JVev Monthly 

 Jfogorifif, : i Thomas Campbell, the poet, was then 



editor, an obituary notice of Henchel, which gave another 

 and a fuller version of his removal to Bath. Unfortunately, 





