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:THORNTON (1760—1815)
, See also:English banker and economist, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1760
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In 1784 he became a member of the banking See also:firm of Downie, See also:Free & See also:Thornton, with which he was associated till his See also:death on the 16th of See also:January 1815
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In 1783 he was elected member of See also:parliament for See also:Southwark, a See also:constituency which he represented for the See also:rest of his See also:life
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Although an indifferent See also:speaker, he soon acquired a high reputation as an authority on See also:financial matters
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This reputation he confirmed by An Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of the See also:Paper Currency of See also:England (1802), defending the legislature in suspending See also:cash payments
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He strongly supported the income tax on its See also:original See also:imposition in 1798, but was in favour of a graduated See also:system, and indeed paid. his own income tax " on the See also:scale of his ideal, not his legal See also:debt." He was one of the founders of the Sierra Leone See also:Company (see SIERRA LEONE) and its chairman until the See also:colony was taken over by the English See also:government
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