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See also:TATE, See also:SIR 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, See also:BART . (1819-1899), See also:English See also:merchant and founder of the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:British See also:Art, was See also:born at See also:Chorley, See also:Lancashire, in 1819. His See also:father, a See also:minister of See also:religion, put him into business- in See also:Liverpool. He became a prosperous See also:sugar-See also:broker, and about 1874 removed to See also:London, where he greatly increased the operations of his See also:firm and made " Tate's See also:Cube Sugar " known all over the See also:world. He had See also:early in his career begun to devote large sums of See also:money to philanthropic and educational purposes. He gave £42,000 to the Liverpool University See also:College, founded in 1881; and a still larger sum to the Liverpool hospitals. Then, when he came to London, he presented four See also:free public See also:libraries to the See also:parish of See also:Lambeth. His See also:interest in art came with later years. He was at first merely a See also:regular buyer of pictures, for which he built a large private gallery in his See also:house at See also:Streatham. Gradually his gallery came to contain one of the best private collections of See also:modern pictures in See also:England, and the owner naturally began to consider what should be done with it after his See also:death. It had always been his intention to leave it to the nation, but in the way of carrying out this generous See also:desire there stood several obstacles. The National Gallery could not have accepted more than a selection from Tate's pictures, which were not all up to the See also:standard of See also:Trafalgar Square; and even
YXVi. 15when he offered to build a new gallery for them, it was found difficult to secure a suitable site. What Tate offered was to spend £80,000 upon a See also:building if the See also:government would See also:pro-vide the ground; and in 1892 this offer was accepted. A new gallery, controlled by the Trustees of the National Gallery, was built on the site of Milibank See also:Prison. The gallery was opened on 21st See also:July 1897, and a large addition to it was completed just before the donor died. It contained sixty-five pictures presented by him; nearly all the English pictures from the National Gallery painted within the previous eighty years; the pictures See also:purchased by the Royal See also:Academy under the See also:Chantrey See also:Bequest, which had previously hung in See also:South See also:Kensington Museum; and seventeen large See also:works given to the nation by Mr G. F. See also:Watts, R.A. Mr Tate was created a See also:baronet in the See also:year after the Tate Gallery had been opened. He died at Streatham on the 5th of See also:December 1899.
End of Article: TATE, SIR HENRY, BART
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