Person:Henry Binns (5)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends

BIRTH: Henry was said to have been born on the date given. No birth certificate located as yet. The name Henry Bryan was not recorded by the Friends, but it appears that this is the name by which he was known (from Mrs Kathleen Ashcroft, Leeds - December 1990).

DEATH: At Sidmouth, Devon (though his address was Edenbridge, Kent) after a long illness, of intestinal tuberculosis and cerebral haemorrhage. Appreciation in theFriend, Vol 63 by Joseph Wickstead.

WILL/PROBATE: Everything was left to Katharine his wife, though his brother William B. Binns was also mentioned (from Mrs Kathleen Ashcroft, Leeds - December 1990).

RESIDENCES: At birth - Southfield, Ulverston 1881 - Census - Fern Bank Villa 2, Derby St Werburgh, Derbyshire, England. 1897 - After marriage - York, Yorkshire, England. 1904-1905 - 3, Cavendish Mansions, West Hampstead, London NW, England. 1913 - ForgeCottage, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent, England [informant of father'sdeath] . 1923 - Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent, England.

MISCELLANEOUS_NOTES: The move to York led to the friendship between Henry andJohn Wilhelm Rowntree resulting in their joint book on the Adult School Movement.

OBITUARY: He was most widely known to the outside public for his biographies, an intimate study of Walt Whitman, and a portrait of Lincoln. His work attempted to show the character of the man would not have been essentially different had thehighlights of history been removed. He was a man of deep earnestness and had a reverential love of beauty. When he talked about the great tragic issues of the world he held that, in the storm of evil, the balance of good in the nature of things, was not eternally disturbed. Entry in Friends' House, London

MEMORIAL: Henry and his wife were often at our house in Letchworth when I was a boy. He was a great friend of fathers and I remember him as being a very kind and quiet person, interested in us children which was not usual amongst the adults at that time. Godfrey Wickstead, aged 91 [Dec. 1990]

INITIAL_SOURCE: International Genealogical Index.

1. ↑ Public Records Office. 1881 British Census Transcript. (Electronic transcript to CD by LDS)
   FHL Film 1341812 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 3396 Folio 126 Page 48.