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:FAUNTLEROY (1785–1824)
, See also:English banker and forger, was See also:born in 1785
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After seven years as a clerk in the See also:London See also:bank of See also:Marsh, See also:Sibbald & Co., of which his See also:father was one of the founders, he was taken into See also:partnership, and the whole business of the See also:firm was See also:left in his hands
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In 1824 the bank suspended See also:payment
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See also:Fauntleroy was arrested on the See also:charge of appropriating See also:trust funds by See also:forging the trustees' signatures, and was committed for trial, it being freely rumoured that he had appropriated 25o,000, which he had squandered in debauchery
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He was tried at the Old See also:Bailey, and, the See also:case against him having been proved, he admitted his See also:guilt, but pleaded that he had used the misappropriated funds to pay his firm's debts
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He was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged
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Seventeen merchants and bankers gave See also:evidence as to his See also:general integrity at the trial, and after his conviction powerful See also:influence was brought to See also:bear on his behalf, and his case was twice argued before See also:judges on points of See also:law
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An See also:Italian named Angelini even offered to take Fauntleroy's See also:place on the See also:scaffold
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The efforts of his many See also:friends were, however, unavailing, and he was executed on the 3oth of See also:November 1824
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A wholly unfounded rumour was widely credited for some 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 subsequently to ,the effect that he had escaped strangulation by inserting a See also:silver See also:tube in his See also:throat, and was living comfortably abroad
.
Seem
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See also:Griffith's See also:Chronicles of Newgate, ii
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294-300, and See also:Pierce See also:Egan's See also:Account of the Trial of Mr Fauntleroy
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