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See also:ERSKINE, See also:- HENRY
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- 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– )
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- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
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- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
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- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1746-1817) , See also:lord See also:advocate of See also:Scotland, the second son of Henry See also:David, loth See also:earl of See also:Buchan and See also:brother of the lord See also:chancellor Erskine, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 1st of See also:November 1746. He was educated at the See also:universities of St See also:Andrews, See also:Glasgow and Edinburgh, and was admitted a member of the See also:faculty of See also:advocates in 1768. His reputation as a See also:clever and fluent See also:speaker was first made in the debates of the See also:general See also:assembly, of which he had been See also:early elected an See also:elder. In 1783 he was appointed to the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of lord advocate, which he held during the brief See also:coalition See also:ministry of See also:Fox and See also:North. In 1785 he was elected See also:dean of the faculty of advocates, and was re-elected annually till 1796, when his conduct in moving a See also:series of resolutions at a public See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting, condemning the See also:government's See also:sedition and See also:treason bills, brought on him the opposition of the ministerial party, and he was deposed in favour of See also:Robert Dundas. On the formation of the See also:Grenville ministry in 18o6 he again became lord advocate and was returned to See also:parliament for the See also:Haddington burghs, which he exchanged at the general See also:election of the same See also:year for the See also:Dumfries burghs. His See also:tenure of the lord advocateship ended in See also:March 1807 on the downfall of the ministry. In 1811 he gave up his practice at the See also:bar and retired to his See also:country See also:residence of Almondel, in See also:Linlithgowshire, where he died on the 8th of See also:October 1817.
His eldest son, Henry David (1783-1857), succeeded as 12th earl of Buchan on his See also:uncle's See also:death in 1829.
Erskine's reputation will survive as the finest and most eloquent orator of his See also:day at the Scottish bar; added to a charming forensic See also:style was a most captivating wit, which, as Lord See also:Jeffrey said, was " all See also:argument, and each of his delightful illustrations a material step in his reasoning." Erskine was also the author of some poems, of which the best known is " The Emigrant " (1783).
See Lieut.-See also:Col. A. See also:Fergusson's Henry Erskine (1882).
End of Article: ERSKINE, HENRY (1746-1817)
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