John Henley [Orator Henley]

(1692-1756)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Henley, John, 1692-1756 NRA: Henley John (1692-1756) Theologian and Preacher DNB: Henley, John [known as Orator Henley] (1692-1756), dissenting minister and eccentric LBT ID: JoHenle1756 VIAF ID: 18100406 LOC ID: n85024898	B/BAP: 1692-08-03 DIED: 1756-10-13
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Dissenting minister, editor of The Hyp Doctor (1730-42), whose pretensions to reviving the art of oratory were mocked by Pope and Hogarth.
REFERENCES TO John Henley [Orator Henley]: Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 25 June 1809 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1809 Life of Byron: 1817 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (16 January 1830) 33-38 Found 1: ¶ 38