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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

HEMPHILL, Baron (Unit. Kgd., 1905). Fitzroy Hemphill, 3rd Baron; Barrister. Mid. temple, 1899; late Capt. 2nd Batt. K.O.S.B.; a J.P. for Co. Galway; Deputy Chairman L.C.C.. 1907-08; only surviving son of Charles Hare, 1st Baron, B.C., K.C., and Augusta (d. 1890), dau. of late Hon. Sir Francis C. Stanhope, and grand-dau. of Charles, 3rd Earl of Harrington; b. 21st Nov., 1860; s. his brother, 26th March, 1918; m. 27th Feb., 1897, Mary, only child of Andrew Martyn, J.P., of Spiddal, Co. Galway, and has issue one son. Res.: 44 Fitzwiliiam Place, Dublin; 137 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1.

HEMPHILL, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Litt.D. (T.C.D.), Rector of Drumbeg near Belfast, 1920: Examining Chaplain to Archbishop of Dublin, 1915. Educ.: Clonmel; Tipperary; Dublin University. Professor of Biblical Greek, Dublin University, 1888-98; Select preacher in Dublin University, 1892-93, 1899; Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1909-14; Chancellor of Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, 1919-20; Member of the Royal Irish Academy. 1893. Pubns.: The Diatessaron of Tatian, 1888; My Neighbour 1897: The Satires of Persius translated, 1900; A History of the Revised Version of the New Testament, 1906; b. Clonmel, 5th July 1859; son of late Robt. Hemphill, Springhill, Co. Tipperary; m. Flora Murcaret, dau. of Rev. Alexander Delap, Rector of Valencia, Co. Kerry, 1885; has issue three sons, four daus. Res.: Drumbeg Rectory, Dunmurry, Co. Antrim.

HENDERSON. Sir Trevor, K.B.E., cr. 1921; Chairman and Managing Director, "Belfast Newsletter"; b. 29th July, 1882: eldest surviving son of late James Alexander Henderson, of Norwood Tower, Strandtown, Belfast, and great-grandson of late Alexander Mackay, Mountcolyer Park, Belfast, who acquired the "Newsletter" by purchase in 1894. Educ.: Royal Academical Institution; entered "Newsletter," 1881. Res.: Norwood Tower, Belfast. Club: Union, Belfast.

HENNESSY, Major George Richard James, O.B.E. (1919),; D.L., J.P., Co. Louth; second son of late Richd. Hennessy, of Cognac, France; b. 1877; m. 1898, Ethel Mary, dau. of late C. Ross, late Scots Greys. Res.: St. Margaret's, Dundalk.

HENNESSY, Rt. Rev. John Joseph; b. near Cloyne, Co. Cork, July 19th 1847; son of Michael Hennessey and Ellen Cronin; came to U.S. in childhood; Grad.: Christian Brothers' College, St. Louis, 1862; completed theol. course at Salesianum, Milwaukee; philos. course at Cape Girardeau Coll., Mo.; ordained priest (by Papal dispensation, being under canonical age), 1869; Missionary in 10 counties in Iron Mountain dist. of Mo., 1869-80; founded the Railroad Men's Benevolent Union, 1871; established, 1877, Ursuline Convent at Arcadia, Mo.; built chs. in Bismarck, Graniteville, Poplar Bluff, Doniphan and Gatewood, Mo.; procurator and v.-p. bd. mgrs., St. Louis Protectory, 1878-86: editor St. Louis Youth's Magazine, 1880-6; rector Sr. John's, St. Louis, 1880-8; consecrated Bishop of Wichita, Nov. 30th, 1888. Res.: Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A.

HENNESSY, Michael Joseph (M.P. for East and North East Cork from 1922).

HENNESSY, Richard Martin, Kings Counsel; called to the Irish Bar; m. 1877; b. 1854: King's Counsel, 1901; Bencher of King's Inns, 1912. Res.: 16 Hume Street, Dublin; Ballindeasig, Co, Cork.

HENRY, Augustine, M.A. (Queen's University, Ireland, and Cambridge University), F.L.S., M.R.I.A., F.R.H.S., V.M.H. Member of the Royal Arboricultural Societies of England and Scotland; of the Dendrological Society of France; of the Franche-Comté Forestry Society, and of the Irish Forestry Society. Professor of Forestry, Royal College of Science, Dublin, since 1913; m. 1908, Alice Helen, eldest dau. of Sir Lauder Brunton, 1st Bart. Educ.: Queen's Colleges, Galway and Belfast. Official in Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, 1882-1900. Explorer of the flora of the interior of China, Formosa and Hainan; introduced Lilium Henryi and other Chinese plants; and for these services to Science was elected Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1891). of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1892) and of the Czecho-Slovakian Botanical Society (1921): and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1902). Studied forestry at Nancy, France: travelled in forests of North America, Algeria, Corsica, Italy, Balkan States, Denmark, Scandinavia, Poland, Bohemia, Silesia, Slovakia, Spain, France, etc. Reader in Forestry, University of Cambridge, 1907-13, during which period the School of Forestry at Cambridge was founded and experiments in breeding new trees were commenced. Publications: Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, in conjunction with H. J. Elwes, F.R.S.; Forests, Woods and Trees in Relation to Hygiene: Notes on Chinese Economic Botany: List of Plants from Formosa; papers in Kew Bulletin, Gardeners' Chronicle, Proceedings Royal Irish Academy, Journal Anthropological Institute, and other scientific periodicals. Res.: 5 Sandford Terrace, Ranelagh, Dublin; Royal College of Science, Dublin.