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CHAPTER VII. 



THE THREE HENRYS— DR. EASON — THE MASSEYS, ETC. 



We do not know the ethnology of the Henrys, but 

 from the name we may suppose them to be English, 

 and probably Norman English. However, the family is 

 said to have been in Antrim for several generations. 

 The grandfather of our first Manchester Henry, namely 

 Thomas, commanded a company of foot in the time of 

 James II. ; and during the disturbed times which in 

 Ireland succeeded the Revolution was shot by an assassin 

 in his own garden. The son, Thomas Henry's father, 

 was an infant, and was taken care of by a neighbouring 

 nobleman and educated in Dublin ; afterwards he was 

 brought to Wales. He married the daughter of a clergy- 

 man and began a ladies' school at Wrexham, where Thomas 

 was born. The school was subsequently transferred to 

 Manchester. Thomas Henry, who was born on October 

 26, (Old Style) 1734, was educated at the grammar school 

 of Wrexham after careful instruction from his mother. He 

 was intended for the Church, but the expense was held to 

 be too great considering the number of the family, and he 

 was apprenticed to an apothecary, Mr. Jones, who soon died, 

 and Henry went to another of the same profession at 

 Knutsford. He studied ' Boerhaave's Chemistry,' and after 

 his apprenticeship went to assist an apothecary at Oxford by 



