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LEFT HENDON 500 HENBY her of official positions in connection with his Trade Society and the Trade Union Movement. Was a member of the New- castle City Council, Darlington Borough Council, and Mayor, 1903. Was chosen as colleague for John Morley at New- castle in 1895 but withdrew. In 1903 was elected as labor M. P. to represent Bar- nard Castle Division, Durham, in the House of Commons, holding the seat till 1918. He was a member of the War Cabinet, President of the Board of Edu- cation, and Paymaster-General. HENDON, a suburban town of Eng- land outside of London, 8 miles from St. Paul's Cathedral, on the banks of the Brent. Its claim to distinction is the fact that here were located the aerodromes of the first aeroplanes which flew in Eng- land, before the World War, making of Hendon the center of the national interest in aeroplane events. Here were conducted the many tests of new-type machines, whose feats added extensively to the general experience in the art of flying. HENDBICKS, THOMAS ANDREWS, Vice-President of the United States; ' born near Zanesville, O., Sept. 7, 1819; was graduated at South Hanover Col- lege, Indiana, in 1841; went to Cham- bersburg, Pa., studied law in the office of his uncle and was admitted to the bar in 1843. In 1845 he was sent to the Legislature, and in 1850 and 1852 was elected to Congress. In 1860 he was the Democratic candidate for governor of In- diana, but was defeated by Henry S, Lane. In 1863-1869 he was a United States Senator; and at the Democratic National Convention of 1868 received 132 votes (second highest) for the presi- dential nomination. In the same year he was again defeated for the governoi*- ship of Indiana, but in 1872 was elected. In the Democratic National Convention of 1876 he received 133 ^/^ votes for the presidential nomination, and a practi- cally unanimous vote for the vice-presi- dential. The Democratic ticket, headed by Tilden. was, however, defeated. In 1884 Hendricks was again nominated for the vice-preside'icy, and this time the Democrats Avere victorious, and Cleve- land and Hendricks were elected. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 25, 1885. HENG-KIANG (heng-ke-ang'), a river of China, falling from the N. W. into the Yang-tse-kiang. In its course of 300 miles it has several large cities on its banks. HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST, an English poet and editor; bom in Glouces- ter, Aug. 23, 1849. Months of sick- ness in Edinburgh Infirmary (1873-1875) bore fruit in "A Book of Verses" (1888), which won much attention, and was fol- lowed by "Views and Reviews" (1890) ; "The Song of the Sword" (1892) ; "Eng- lish Lyrics" (1897); "Poems" (1898); etc. He has also been editor of the "Magazine of Art"; the "Scots (or "Na- tional") Observer"; and the "New Re- view": besides editing Burns and Byron. He collaborated with R. L. Stevenson in three plays, "Deacon Brodie"; "Beau Austin"; and "Admiral Guinea." He died in 1903. HENLEY-ON-THAMES, a municipal borough of Oxfordshire, at the base of the Chiltern Hills, and on the left bank of the Thames; 36 miles W. of London. The five-arch bridge was built in 1786 at a cost of $50,000. Malting is a prin- cipal branch of industry; there are also breweries, and a considerable trade in corn, flour, and timber. The principal amateur regatta of England has been held here every summer since 1839. HENRIETTA, MARIA, queen of Charles I. of England; youngest child of Henry IV., of France, by his second wife, Maria de' Medici; bom in Paris in 1609. The proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the In- fanta of Spain having failed, a matri- monial negotiation was opened with Hen- rietta, whom he had first met at a ball in Paris while on his way to Spain. The marriage was celebrated by proxy at Paris in 1625, but her first popularity in England was soon destroyed by her bigotry, hauteur and despotic ideas as to divine right. Much of the subcequent procedure which brought Charles to the block may be traced indirectly to her in- fluence. On the breaking out of civil war she proceeded to Holland, procured money and troops, and afterward joined Charles at Oxford. She again went to the Continent in 1644, and resided in France till the Restoration. On that oc- casion she visited England, but soon re- turned to France, and died near Paris in 1669. HENRY, a name borne by various European rulers as follows: ENGLAND. Henry I., surnamed Beauclerc ("fine scholar"), youngest son of William the Conqueror; born in Selby in Yorkshire, in 1068. He was hunting with William Rufus when that prince was killed, in 1100, and instantly riding^ to London, caused himself to be proclaimed king, to the prejudice of his elder brother Rob- ert, th^^n absent as a Crusader. He re- established by charter the laws of Ed- ward the Confessor, recalled Anselm to the primacy, and married Matilda..