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See also:CAREY, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (d. 1743) , See also:English poet and musician, reputed to be an illegitimate son of See also:George See also:Savile, See also:marquess of See also:Halifax, was See also:born towards the end of the 17th See also:century. His See also:mother is supposed to have been a schoolmistress, and Carey himself taught See also:music at various See also:schools. He owed his knowledge of music to Olaus Linnert, and later he studied with Roseingrave and Geminiani. He wrote the words and the music of The Contrivances; or More Ways than One, a See also:farce produced at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1715. His See also:Hanging and See also:Marriage; or The Dead See also:Man's See also:Wedding was acted at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields in 1722. Chrononhotonthologos (1734), described as " The most Tragical Tragedy that ever was tragedized by any See also:Company of Tragedians," was a successful See also:burlesque of the bombast of the contemporary See also:stage. The best of his other pieces were A Wonder; or the Honest Yorkshireman (1735), a ballad See also:opera, and the See also:Dragon of Wantley (1737), a burlesque opera, the music of which was by J. F. Lampe. He was the author of Namby-Pamby, a once famous See also:parody of See also:Ambrose See also:Philips's verses to the See also:infant daughter of the See also:earl of See also:Carteret. Carey is best remembered by his songs. " Sally in our See also:Alley " (printed in his Musical Century) was a See also:sketch See also:drawn after following a shoemaker's 'prentice and his sweetheart on a See also:holiday. The See also:present tune set to these words, however, is not the one written by Carey, but is borrowed from an earlier See also:song, " The See also:Country Lasse," which is printed in The Merry Musician (vol. iii., c. 1716). It has been claimed for him that he was the author of " See also:God See also:save the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King " (see See also:NATIONAL ANTHEMS). He died in See also:London on the 4th of
See also:October 1743, and it was asserted, without See also:justification, that he had committed See also:suicide. See also:Edmund See also:Kean, the tragedian, was one of his See also:great-grandchildren.
The completest edition of his poems is Poems on Several Occasions (1729). His dramatic See also:works were published by subscription in 1743.
End of Article: CAREY, HENRY (d. 1743)
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