ARCHIBALD

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• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• 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 (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• 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

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• ARCHIBALD HENRY SAYCE (1846- )

SAYCE (1846- )  , British Orientalist, was born at Shirehampton on the 25th of September 1846, son of the Rev . H . S . Sayce, vicar of Caldicot . He was educated at Bath, and at Queen's College, Oxford, of which he became fellow in 1869 . In 1891 he was elected professor of Assyriology at Oxford . He threw his whole energies into the study of biblical and other Oriental subjects, and though his conclusions have in a number of cases been considerably modified (e.g. in chronology and transliteration) by the work of other scholars (see, e.g . BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA) it is impossible to overestimate his services to Oriental scholarship . He travelled widely in the East and continued in later life annual trips up the Nile . An interesting example of the importance of his pioneer work is the fact that there has been a strong tendency to revert. to the views which he advanced on the question of the Hittites in his early Oxford lectures . He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Company in 1874-1884; deputy professor of comparative philology in Oxford 1876-189o; Hibbert Lecturer 1887; Gifford Lecturer 1900-1902 . The sale was probably illegal as it was never confirmed ; and it does not appear that the earl of Warwick had ever had title to the land to convey to the company of which Fenwick was agent .

For a conjectural explanation of the

history of the Warwick patent see Forrest Morgan, " The Solution of an Old Historic Mystery," in the Magazine of History for July, August, September and October 1909 . Of his numerous publications the following are of special importance :Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes (1872); Principles of Comparative Philology (1874); Babylonian Literature (1877); Introduction to the Science of Language (1879) ; Monuments of the Hittites (1881) ; Herodotus (1883); Ancient Empires of the East (1884); Introduction to Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (1885); Assyria (1885); Hibbert Lectures on Babylonian Religion (1887); The Hittites (1889); Races of the Old Testament (1891); Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments (1894); Patriarchal Palestine (1895) ; The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus (1895) ; Early History of the Hebrews (1897); Israel and the Surrounding Nations (1898); Babylonians and Assyrians (1900); Egyptian and Babylonian Religion (1903); Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscr . (1907) . He also contributed important articles to the 9th, loth and i i th editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and edited a number of Oriental works .