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See also:HENLEY, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903) , See also:British poet, critic and editor, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:August 1849 at See also:Gloucester, and was educated at the See also:Crypt See also:Grammar School in that See also:city. The school was a sort of See also:Cinderella See also:sister to the See also:Cathedral School, and Henley indicated its shortcomings in his See also:article (See also:Pall Mall See also:Magazine, Nov. 1goo) on T. E. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown the poet, who was headmaster there for a brief See also:period. Brown's See also:appointment, uncongenial to himself, was a stroke of See also:luck for Henley, for whom, as he said, it represented a first acquaintance with a See also:man of See also:genius. " He was singularly See also:kind to me at a moment when I needed kindness even more than I needed encouragement." Among other kindnesses Brown did him the essential service of lending him books. To the end Henley was no classical See also:scholar, but his knowledge and love of literature were, vital. Afflicted with a See also:physical infirmity, he found himself in 1874, at the See also:age of twenty-five, an inmate of the See also:hospital at See also:Edinburgh. From there he sent to the Cornlzill Magazine poems in irregular rhythms, describing with poignant force his experiences in hospital. See also:Leslie See also:Stephen, then editor, being in Edinburgh,
and See also:Macaire at His See also:Majesty's on the 2nd of May 1901. See also:Admiral See also:Guinea also achieved See also:stage performance. In the meantime Henley was active in the magazines and did notable editorial See also:work for the publishers: the See also:Lyra Heroica, 1891; A See also:Book of See also:English See also:Prose (with Mr See also:Charles Whibley), 1894; the See also:centenary See also:Burns (with Mr T.F. See also:Henderson) in 1896—1897, in which Henley's See also:Essay (published separately 1898) roused considerable controversy. In 1892 he undertook for Mr Nutt the See also:general editor-See also:ship of the Tudor See also:Translations; and in 1897 began for Mr Heinemann an edition of See also:Byron, which did not proceed beyond one See also:volume of letters. In :898 he.published a collection of his Poems in one volume, with the autobiographical " See also:advertisement " above quoted; in 1899 See also:London Types, Quatorzains to accompany. Mr William See also:Nicolson's designs; and in 1900 during the See also:Boer See also:War, a patriotic poetical brochure, For See also:England's See also:Sake. In 1901 he published a second volume of collected See also:poetry with the See also:title See also:Hawthorn and See also:Lavender, See also:uniform with the volume of 1898. In 1902 he collected his various articles on painters and artists and published them as a See also:companion volume of Views and Reviews: See also:Art. These with " A See also:Song of See also:Speed " printed in May 1903 within two months of his See also:death make up his See also:tale of work. At the See also:close of his See also:life he was engaged upon his edition of the Authorized Version of the See also:Bible for his See also:series of Tudor Translations. There remained uncollected some of his scattered articles in See also:periodicals and reviews, especially the series of See also:literary articles contributed to the Pall Mall Magazine from 1899 until his death. These contain the most outspoken utterances of a critic never mealy-mouthed, and include the splenetic attack on the memory of his dead friend R. L. See also:Stevenson, which aroused deep regret and resentment. In 1894 Henley lost his little sixyear-old daughter See also:Margaret; he had See also:borne the " bludgeonings of See also:chance" with "the unconquerable soul" of which he boasted, not unjustifiably, in a well-known poem; but this See also:blow See also:broke his See also:heart. With the knowledge of this fact, some of these out-bursts may be better understood; yet we have the See also:evidence of a clear-eyed critic who knew Henley well, that he found him more generous, more sympathetic at the close of his life than he had been before. He died on the 11th of See also:July 1903. In spite of his too boisterous mannerism and prejudices, he exercised by his originality, See also:independence and fearlessness an inspiring and inspiriting See also:influence on the higher class of journalism. This influence he exercised by word of mouth as well as by his See also:pen, for he was a famous talker, and figures as " Burly " in Stevenson's essay on Talk and Talkers. As critic he was a See also:good hater and a good fighter. His virtue See also:lay in his vital and vitalizing love of good literature, and the vivid and pictorial phrases he found to give it expression. But his fame must See also:rest on his poetry. He excelled alike in his delicate experiments in complicated metres, and the strong See also:impressionism of Hospital Sketches and London Voluntaries. The influence of See also:Heine may be discerned in these " unrhymed rhythms "; but he was perhaps a truer and more successful See also:disciple of Heine in his snatches of passionate song, the best of which should retain their See also:place in English literature.
See also references in Stevenson's Letters; Cornhill Magazine (1903) (See also:Sidney See also:Low) ; Fortnightly See also:Review (August 1892) (See also:Arthur See also:Symons) ; and for bibliography, English Illustrated Magazine, vol. See also:xxix. p.
548.
(W. P. J.)
HENLEY-ON-See also:THAMES, a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the Henley See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Oxfordshire, England, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Thames, the See also:terminus of a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western railway, by which it is 351 M. W. of London, while it is 571 M. by See also:river. Pop. (1901) 5984. It occupies one of the most beautiful situations on the Thames, at the See also:foot of the finely wooded Chiltern Hills. The river is crossed by an elegant See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridge of five See also:arches, constructed in 1786. The See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church (Decorated and Perpendicular) possesses a lofty See also:tower of intermingled See also:flint and stone, attributed to See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey, but more probably erected by See also:Bishop Longland. The grammar school, founded in z6o5, is incorporated with a See also:Blue Coat school. Henley is a favourite summer resort, and is celebrated for the See also:annual Henley Royal Regatta, the See also:principal gathering of See also:amateur oarsmen in England, first heldin 1839 and usually taking place in July. Henley is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. _Area, 549 acres.
Henley-on-Thames (Hanlegang, See also:Henle, Handley), not mentioned in Domesday, was a See also:manor or See also:ancient See also:demesne of the See also:crown and was granted (1337) to See also:John de Molyns, whose See also:family held it for about 250 years. It is said that members for Henley sat in parliaments of See also:Edward I. and Edward III., but no writs have been found. 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 VIII. having granted the use of the titles " mayor " and " See also:burgess," the town was incorporated in 1570—1571 by the name of the See also:warden, portreeves, burgesses and commonalty. Henley suffered from both parties in the See also:Civil War. William III. on his See also:march to London (1688) rested here and received a deputation from the Lords. The period of prosperity in the 17th and 18th centuries was due to manufactures of See also:glass and See also:malt, and to See also:trade in See also:corn and See also:wool. The existing See also:Thursday market was granted by a See also:charter of John and the existing Corpus Christi See also:fair by a charter of Henry VI.
See J. S. See also:Burn, See also:History of Henley-on-Thames (London, 1861).
End of Article: HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)
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