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HENRY DUNCKLEY (1823-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 672 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:DUNCKLEY (1823-1896)  , See also:English journalist, was See also:born at See also:Warwick on the 24th of See also:December 1823 . Educated at the Baptist See also:college at See also:Accrington, See also:Lancashire, and at See also:Glasgow University, he became in 1848 See also:minister of the Baptist See also:church at See also:Salford, Lancashire . Here he closely investigated the educational needs of the working-classes, embodying the results of his inquiries in an See also:essay, The See also:Glory and the Shame of See also:Britain (1851), which gained a See also:prize offered by the Religious See also:Tract Society . In 1852 he won the See also:Anti-See also:Corn-See also:law See also:League's prize with an essay on the results of the See also:free-See also:trade policy, published in 1854 under the See also:title The See also:Charter of the Nations . In 1855 he abandoned the See also:ministry to edit the See also:Manchester Examiner and Times, a prominent Liberal newspaper, in See also:charge of which he remained till 1889 . For twenty years he wrote, over the See also:signature " Verax," weekly letters to the Manchester papers; those on The See also:Crown and the See also:Cabinet (1877) and The Crown and the Constitution (1878) evoked so much See also:enthusiasm that a public subscription was set on See also:foot to See also:present the writer with a handsome testimonial for his public services . In 1878 See also:Dunckley, who had often declined to stand for See also:parliament, was elected a member of the Reform See also:Club in recognition of his services to the Liberal party, and in 1883 he was made an LL.D. by Glasgow University . He died at Manchester on the 29th of See also:June 1896 .

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