Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Henley, Robert (1)

by Joseph Foster

Henley, Robert, s. Ant., of Grange, Hants, arm. St. John's Coll., matric. 19 Nov., 1724, aged 16; fellow All Souls' Coll. 1729, B.A. 10 March, 1728-9, M.A. 1733, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1732, bencher 1751, M.P. Bath 1745 to July, 1757, recorder of Bath 1751, knighted 6 Nov., 1756, and attorney general, lord keeper, and P.C. 1757, created Baron Grange 27 March, 1760, lord high steward on the trial of Earl Ferrers 1760 and Lord Byron 1765, lord chancellor 1761, created Earl of Northington 19 May, 1764, died 14 Jan., 1772. See Foss's Judges.