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H year. Henfrey was greatly esteemed by his contemporaries for his sympathetic disposition, genial manners, and never-failing readiness to oblige and help his colleagues. He died at Turnham Green on 7 Sept. 1859. He married Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter of the Hon. Jabez Henfrey. Henry William Henfrey [q. v.], the numismatist, was his son.

Henfrey wrote: 1. ‘Anatomical Manipulations,’ 1844, in conjunction with A. Tulk. 2. ‘Outlines of Structural and Physiological Botany,’ 1847. 3. ‘Reports and Papers on Botany,’ Ray Society, 1849. 4. ‘The Rudiments of Botany,’ 1849; 2nd edit. 1859. 5. ‘The Vegetation of Europe, its Conditions and Causes,’ 1852. 6. ‘The Relations of Botanical Science to other Branches of Knowledge,’ 1854. 7. ‘Introductory Address, King's College, London,’ 1856. 8. ‘An Elementary Course of Botany,’ 1857; fourth ed. 1884. 9. ‘On the Educational Claims of Botanical Science,’ 1857. He also translated: 1. ‘On Vegetable Cells,’ by C. Nägelli; for the Ray Society, 1846. 2. ‘Chemical Field Lectures,’ by J. A. Stöckhardt, 1847. 3. ‘The Earth, Plants, and Man,’ by J. F. Schouw, 1847. 4. ‘The Plant,’ by M. J. Schleiden, 1848. 5. ‘Principles of the Anatomy of the Vegetable Cell,’ by H. von Mohl, 1851. He edited: 1. ‘Scientific Memoirs (New Series, Natural History),’ 1837, in conjunction with Professor Huxley. 2. ‘The Botanical Gazette,’ 1849. 3. ‘Journal of the Photographic Society,’ vols. i. and ii., 1853. 4. ‘Micrographic Dictionary,’ 1854, in conjunction with J. W. Griffith. 5. A revised and enlarged edition of G. W. Francis's [q. v.] ‘Anatomy of the British Ferns,’ 1855.

The genus Henfreya of Lindley, a handsome genus of ‘Acanthaceæ,’ is merged in Asystasia of Blume. 

HENFREY, HENRY WILLIAM (1852–1881), numismatist, born in London on 5 July 1852, was eldest son of Arthur Henfrey the botanist [q. v.], and was educated at Brighton College, but was prevented by an accident from proceeding to Oxford. He was encouraged in his natural bent for archæological and numismatic studies by Peter Cunningham (1816–1869) [q. v.], Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878) [q. v.], and Admiral Smyth. One of his first numismatic writings was a paper in the ‘English Mechanic’ on the Queen Anne's farthings. He joined the Numismatic Society of London in 1868, became a member of the council, and contributed to its proceedings twelve papers, chiefly on English coins and medals, which were printed in the ‘Numismatic Chronicle.’ He was a foreign member of the Belgian and French numismatic societies, and of several American societies. He was elected a member of the British Archæological Association in 1870, and contributed papers to its proceedings, especially on the medals of Cromwell, and on the coins of Bristol and Norwich. At the time of his death he was arranging for the press a history of English country mints, for which he had been for many years collecting material. This, however, has not been published. In 1870 he published ‘A Guide to the Study of English Coins,’ London, 8vo (2nd edit. by C. F. Keary, London, 1885, 8vo), a well-known and useful little handbook; and in 1877 his principal work, the ‘Numismata Cromwelliana,’ London, 4to, giving a full account of the coins, medals, and seals of the protectorate. Henfrey died, after returning from a visit to Italy, on 31 July 1881 at Widmore Cottage, his mother's house at Bromley, Kent.

 HENGHAM or HINGHAM, RALPH (d. 1311), judge, son of Sir Andrew de Hengham or Hingham, was born at St. Andrew's Manor, Hengham or Hingham, Norfolk, during the second quarter of the thirteenth century. Like most of the great lawyers of his time he was an ecclesiastic. On 29 Oct. 1274 he was preferred to the prebend of Moreton-cum-Whaddon in the church of Hereford; on 19 Oct. 1275 he was appointed to the chancellorship of the diocese of Exeter, which he resigned in 1279. In 1280 he received the prebendal stall of Cadington Major in the church of St. Paul's, which he held until his death. On 16 Nov. 1287 he was appointed to the archdeaconry of Worcester, but resigned the office in the following year (, Fasti, i. 417, 512, ii. 369, iii. 74). His rise as a lawyer must have been rapid. In 1270 he was appointed justice of the king's bench, with a salary of 40l. per annum. In November 1272 he was transferred by Edward I to the common pleas. In Michaelmas term 1273, or soon afterwards, he returned to the king's bench, of which he was chief justice in November 1274, with a salary of sixty marks per annum. In the parliament of 1289–90 he was accused of false judgment and false imprisonment, convicted, dismissed from office, and sent to the Tower, but was released on payment of a fine which contemporary chroniclers represent as of the enormous amount of 8,000l. The case is mentioned as a precedent in the year-book of the second year