RICHARD

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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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• RICHARD HENRY STODDARD (1825-1903)

STODDARD (1825-1903)  , American author, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, on the 2nd of July 1825 . He spent most of his boyhood in New York City, where he became a blacksmith and later an iron moulder, but in 1849 he gave up his trade and began to write for a living . He contributed to the Union Magazine, the Knickerbocker Magazine, Putnam's Monthly Magazine and the New York Evening Post . In 1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne helped him to secure the appointment of inspector of customs of the Port of New York . He was confidential clerk to George B . McClellan in the New York dock department in 1870—1872, and city Iibrarian of New York in 1874-1875; literary reviewer for the New York World (1860-1870); one of the editors of Vanity Fair; editor of the Aldine (1869-1874), and literary editor of the Mail and Express (188o-i9o3) . He died in New York on the 12th of May 1903 . Among the numerous books that he edited are The Loves and Heroines of the Poets (1861); Melodies and Madrigals, Mostly from the old English Poets (1865); The Late English Poets (1865), selections; Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America (1872), and Female Poets of America (1874); The Brie-a-Brat Series, in 10 vols . (1874-1876); English Verse, in 5 vols. edited with W . J . Linton (1883); and four editions of Poe's works, with a memoir (1872-1894) . His original poetry includes Footprints (1849), privately printed and afterwards suppressed; Poems (1852) ; the juveniles, Adventures in Fairyland (1853); Town and Country (1857), and The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1864); Songs of Summer (1857); The King's Bell (1862), one of his most popular narrative poems; Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode (1865), The Book of the East (1867), Poems (188o), a collective edition; and The Lion's Cub, with Other Verse (189o) .

He also wrote

Life, Travels and Books of Alexander von Humboldt (186o) ; Under the Evening Lamp (1892), essays dealing mainly with the modern English poets; and Recollections Perscnal and Literary (1903), edited by Ripley Hitchcock . More important than his critical was his poetical work, which at its best is sincere, original and marked by delicate fancy, and felicity of form; and his songs have given him a high and permanent place among American lyric poets . His wife ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD (1823 1902), poet and novelist, was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on the 6th of May 1823 . She studied at Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass . After her marriage in 1852 she assisted her .husband in his literary work, and contributed stories, poems and essays to the periodicals . She wrote three novels—The Morgesons (1862), Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867), and a volume of poems (1895) . A new edition of her novels was issued in 1901 . She died in New York on the 1st of August 1902 .