Alexander Henry (MP)

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|office = Member of Parliament
for South Lancashire

|term_start = 20 December 1847

|term_end = 14 July 1852

|predecessor = William Brown
Charles Pelham Villiers

|successor = William Brown
John Cheetham

|alongside = William Brown

|birth_date = 1783

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Alexander Henry (1783 – 4 October 1862){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "L" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons1.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=12 May 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629211810/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons1.htm|archivedate=29 June 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=5 December 2017}} was a British Radical politician.{{cite news |title=Dorset County Chronicle |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000408/18471223/059/0004 |accessdate=8 August 2018 |date=23 December 1847 |page=4 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |title=Local Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000488/18471224/009/0003 |accessdate=8 August 2018 |work=Lancaster Gazette |date=24 December 1847 |page=3 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mvEHAAAAQAAJ&dq=Alexander+Henry+%28MP%29&pg=PA3 City news notes and queries, (J.H. Nodal, ed.) 1880 Vol.1-8, p. 3] He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Brush of Willowbrook, Killinchy, County Down. Henry was active in the postal reform movement[https://books.google.com/books?id=q6RP1WCAM6YC&dq=Alexander+Henry+%28MP%29&pg=PA107 Bond of Brotherhood, Issues 13-28, 1851, p. 107] 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.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=411}}