Alexander Henry (1783 – 4 October 1862)[1] was a British Radical politician.[2][3]
Life
Alexander Henry of Woodlands, near Manchester, England, was born in County Down. He moved to England in 1804, and with his brother Samuel, established A & S Henry & Co Ltd, a dealer in cotton. The firm was very successful, having branches in Huddersfield and elsewhere and they became very wealthy. Samuel Henry used to travel to Alabama to buy cotton. He died in 1840 when the steamship Lexington caught fire and sank in Long Island Sound.
Alexander was a member of the Cross Street congregation, a Unitarian chapel.[4] He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Brush of Willowbrook, Killinchy, County Down. Henry was active in the postal reform movement[5] and a supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Henry was elected Radical Member of Parliament for South Lancashire at a [by-election in 1847 —caused by Charles Pelham Villiers' decision to sit for another seat—and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Rayment, Leigh (5 December 2017). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "L"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 29 June 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Dorset County Chronicle". 23 December 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 8 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Local Intelligence". Lancaster Gazette. 24 December 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 8 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ City news notes and queries, (J.H. Nodal, ed.) 1880 Vol.1-8, p. 3
- ^ Bond of Brotherhood, Issues 13-28, 1851, p. 107
- ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 411. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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