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Admitted 3 May, 1684.

Son and heir of Sir Robert Henley, one of the Associates of the Bench (of the Grange, Arlesford, Hants), and grandson of Sir Robert Henley, once Master of the King's Bench. Anthony was educated at Oxford, where he acquired a wide knowledge of the Classics, which, with an ample fortune, secured him a welcome in London amongst the wits of the day. He was especially a friend of Swift, who frequently refers to him in his Letters to Stella, and he was a contributor to the Tatler, the Medley, and the Spectator. He was also an excellent musician and a friend and patron of the Purcells. He died in Aug. 1711.

Admitted 26 May, 1825.

Second son of David Henry of Stephen's Green, Dublin, where he was born in 1807. He graduated B.A. at Trinity College there in 1824. He was called to the Bar 23 Jan. 1829, and made Magistrate at Whitechapel in 1840; transferred to Bow Street in 1846, where he became Chief in 1864, with the honour of knighthood. In this capacity he acted as chief adviser to the Government on administrative and police matters, and on questions relating to extradition, and he was the draftsman of the Extradition Act now in force. He investigated the charges against Nelson and Brand in respect of the execution of Gordon in Jamaica, and committed the accused for trial at the Old Bailey, on which occasion Lord Chief Justice Cockburn (q.v.) delivered his charge on the subject of Martial Law to the grand jury. He died 16 June, 1876, and was buried in the ground of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas, in Fulham.

Admitted 21 April, 1638.

Son and heir of Benjamin Henshaw, "Captain of the City of London." He was born in Milk Street 15 June, 1618. At the outbreak of the Civil War he took the part of the King, and being taken prisoner was released on parole, on which he went over to the Continent, where he spent several years. On his return to England he was called to the Bar 24 Nov. 1654, and on the Restoration was appointed the King's French Secretary and made a Privy Councillor. He was subsequently (1672) Envoy-Extraordinary in Denmark. He died at Kensington 2 Jan. 1700.

Elias Ashmole (q.v.) refers to him as an expert in occult science, on which subject he contributed papers to the Philosophical Transactions. He also translated from the Italian Salmedo's History of China (1655), and edited Dr. Skinner's Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ (1671).

Admitted 3 February, 1575-6.

Son and heir of Sir Edward Herbert of Montgomery. He was the representative of the great family of Herbert of the Welsh Marches, and was the father of Edward Herbert, first Lord Herbert of Cherbury. He was Sheriff of Montgomery in 1576 and 1584, and represented Montgomeryshire in Parliament in 1585. He was a man of capacity and courage, well versed in literature, and an active maintainer of law and order along the Marches of Wales. He died in 1596.