See also:MAXWELL 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:CLOSE (1822-1903)
, Irish geologist, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1822
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He was educated at See also:Weymouth and at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered See also:holy orders
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For a See also:year he was See also:curate of All See also:Saints, See also:Northampton; from 1849 to 1857 he was See also:rector of Shangton in See also:Leicestershire; and then for four years he was curate of See also:Waltham-on-the-Wolds
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In 1861, on the See also:death of his See also:father, he returned to Dublin, and while giving his services to various churches in the See also:city, devoted himself almost wholly to See also:literary and scientific pursuits, and especially to the glacial See also:geology of See also:Ireland, on which subject he became an acknowledged authority
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His See also:paper, read before the See also:Geological Society of Ireland in 1866, on the " See also:General Glaciation of Ireland " is a masterly description of the effects of glaciation, and of the See also:evidence in favour of the See also:action of See also:land-See also:ice
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Later on he discussed the 'origin of J the elevated See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell-bearing gravels near Dublin, and expressed the view that they were accumulated by floating ice when the land had undergone submergence
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He was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time treasurer of the Royal Irish See also:Academy, an active member of the Royal Dublin Society, and See also:president in 1878 of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland
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See also:Astronomy and physics, as well as the See also:ancient See also:language and antiquities of Ireland, •attracted his See also:attention
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He died in Dublin on the 12th of See also:September 1903
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The obituary by Prof
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See also:Cole in Irish Naturalist, vol. xii
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(1903) pp
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301-306, contains a See also:list of publications and portrait
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