Background
HENRY, J. Edgar was born on Feb! 18, 1841. Son of Reverend John Henry, Leitrim, Company Down.
HENRY, J. Edgar was born on Feb! 18, 1841. Son of Reverend John Henry, Leitrim, Company Down.
Studied at Royal Academical Institute and Queen’s and Assembly’s Colleges, Belfast. Master of Arts; Doctor of Divinity.
Master of Arts of the Royal University, and Doctor of Divinity of the Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland. Presbyterian minister of second Ardstraw, 1865-1879. Canterbury, 1879-1882.
Second Derry, 1882-1890. Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1902. Professor of Church History and Polity, and Pastoral Theology, since 1890.
Spouse 1874, Isabella, 5thdaughter of John Hutton, Ballygrangey, Newtownards.