Introduction

Biography

Henry was the hus­band of Eli­za Ma­ry Shep­pard.

He gra­du­at­ed from Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty in 1855, and was or­dained the next year.

He wrote for mu­sic­al pub­li­ca­tions, and for the Dic­tion­ary of Na­tion­al Bio­gra­phy, and for ma­ny years was pre­cen­tor and ed­it­or for the Don­cas­ter Church Chor­al Uni­on.

His du­ties as rec­tor of Thurnscoe, York­shire (West Rid­ing) lim­it­ed the time he could spend on mu­sic, but he did col­la­bo­rate with Sa­bine Bar­ing-Gould to pub­lish Songs of the West, with folk songs from De­von and Corn­wall.

In March 1901, he was liv­ing in Ox­ford St. Giles.