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Henry was born on December 13, 1798 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a woollen draper, Robert Henry, and his wife Kathleen Elder.
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Born in Dublin and classically educated at Trinity College James Henry 1798 1876 practised as a doctor for more than twenty years before an inheritance enabled him to focus on the textual study of Virgil s Aeneid Travelling extensively across Europe Henry conferred with eminent scholars and consulted numerous manuscripts His early findings also reissued in this series first appeared in 1853 After the death of his wife he was accompanied and assisted by his sole surviving daughter Katherine Olivia who would also predecease him three years after their final return to Ireland in 1869 Published between 1873 and 1892 this monumental commentary was seen through the press by colleagues following Henry s own death Reflecting its author s passion and personality the work remains a landmark in Virgilian scholarship both celebrated and critiqued for its original and challenging approach This final volume comprising an index of names and matters and an index of authors quoted appeared in 1892
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Henry was born on December 13, 1798 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a woollen draper, Robert Henry, and his wife Kathleen Elder.
Henry was educated by Unitarian schoolmasters and then at Trinity College, Dublin.
Until 1845 Henry practised as a physician in the city. His accession to a large fortune in 1845 enabled him to devote himself entirely to the absorbing occupation of his life: the study of Virgil. Accompanied by his wife and daughter, he visited all those parts of Europe where he was likely to find rare editions or manuscripts of the poet. When his wife died in Tyrol he continued his work with his daughter, who became quite a Virgil expert in her own right, and crossed the Alps seventeen times. After the death of his daughter in 1872 he returned to Dublin and continued his research at Trinity College, Dublin. He died at Dalkey, County Dublin. As a commentator on Virgil, Henry will always deserve to be remembered, notwithstanding the occasional eccentricity of his notes and remarks. The first fruits of his researches were published at Dresden in 1853 under the quaint title Notes of a Twelve Years Voyage of Discovery in the first six Books of the Eneis. These were embodied, with alterations and additions, in the Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis (1873-1892), of which only the notes on the first book were published during the author's lifetime. As a textual critic Henry was exceedingly conservative. His notes, written in a racy and interesting style, are especially valuable for their wealth of illustration and references to the less-known classical authors. Henry was also the author of five collections of verse plus two long narrative poems describing his travels, and various pamphlets of a satirical nature. At its best his poetry has something of the flavour of Robert Browning and Arthur Hugh Clough while at its worst it resembles the doggerel of William McGonagall. His five volumes of verse were all published at his own expense and received no critical attention either during or after his lifetime.
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(Excerpt from Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery...)
In spite of Henry's unconventionality and unorthodox views on religion and his own profession, he was very successful.
Henry married Anne Jane Patton, from Donegal, and had three daughters, only one of whom, Katherine, born 1830, survived infancy.