Henry Dunckley

  General Notes:

Family home was "Binswood" on Wilmslow Road, Didsbury . ^150,213

  Noted events in his life were:

• Life history. Henry Dunckley
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Henry Dunckley (December 24, 1823- June 29, 1896), English journalist, was born at Warwick </wiki/Warwick>.
Educated at the Baptist college at Accrington, Lancashire </wiki/Lancashire>, and at the University of Glasgow </wiki/University_of_Glasgow>, he became in 1848 minister of the Baptist church at Salford, Lancashire. Here he closely investigated the educational needs of the working-classes, embodying the results of his inquiries in an essay, The Glory and the Shame of Britain (1851), which gained a prize offered by the Religious Tract Society. In 1852 he won the Anti-Corn-law Leagues prize with an essay on the results of the free-trade policy, published in 1854 under the title The Charter of the Nations. In 1855 he abandoned the ministry to edit the Manchester Examiner and Times, a prominent Liberal newspaper, in charge of which he remained till 1889. For twenty years he wrote, over the signature Verax, weekly letters to the Manchester papers; those on The Crown and the Cabinet (1877) and The Crown and the Constitution (1878) evoked so much enthusiasm that a public subscription was set on foot to present the writer with a handsome testimonial for his public services. In 1878 Dunckley, who had often declined to stand for parliament, was elected a member of the Reform Club </wiki/Reform_Club> in recognition of his services to the Liberal party, and in 1883 he was made an LL.D. by Glasgow University. He died at Manchester on the 29th of June 1896.
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</wiki/File:PD-icon.svg> </wiki/File:PD-icon.svg>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain </wiki/Public_domain>: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica </wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition> (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Henry married Elizabeth Arthur Wood, daughter of Thomas Wood and Elizabeth Arthur, 7th Oct, 1848 in Warwick, England.²¹² (Elizabeth Arthur Wood was born in 1818 in Brockham, Surrey, England ¹⁵² and died in Sep 1889 in Chorlton, Lancashire, England ²¹⁴.)