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Henry, an WHnglish politician and economist, born at Salisbury in 1833, died 6th Nov., 1884. He was educated at Cambridge, studied law for a while at the Middle Temple, but soon renounced it. In 1858, when out partridge shooting, he met with an accident which inflicted on him total blindne . Undiscouraged, however, by his deprivation, he gave his attention to economic studies. In i863 he was elected to the chair of political economy at Cambridge. In 1865 he was clected member of Parliament for Brighton, which he represented till the general election of 1874, when he was elected for Hackney. He became Postmaster-General in the second Gladstone administration, and effected many reforms in his department. In 1883 he was made Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Amongst his principal writings are: A Manual of Political Economy, Lectures on the Economic Position of the British Labourer, and articles on Indian finances.