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Thomas Henry

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Sir Thomas Henry (1807 – 1876) was an Anglo-Irish police magistrate. Life Thomas was born in Dublin in 1807. He was the eldest son of David Henry of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin and head of the government contractor firm Henry, Mullins, & MacMahon. He was educated at Von Feinagle's school in that city and later studied at Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. 1824 and M.A. 1827. On 23 January 1829, he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, went the northern circuit, and attended the West Riding of Yorkshire sessions. He was magistrate at the Lambeth Street police-court, Whitechapel, from April 1840 until 1846. In 1846, he was transferred to Bow Street, became chief magistrate there 6 July 1864, and was knighted on 30 Nov. He discharged his duties with general approval. He created the existing English law of extradition; the Extradition Act 1862, and the various treaties accordingly connecting England and foreign powers. He for many years served as the chief adviser of the English government on administrative and correctional police, and his opinion was acted upon in the various licensing bills, the betting acts, Sunday trading legislation, and similar measures.

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“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.”
— "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854) p. 29
“Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.”
— Ch.2, p. 74
“If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to any one who will take it of me.”
— "On Descartes' Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth" (1870)
“Scientific men get an awkward habit — no, I won't call it that, for it is a valuable habit — of believing nothing unless there is evidence for it; and they have a way of looking upon belief which is not based upon evidence, not only as illogical, but as immoral.”
— Thomas Henry Huxley. "Lectures on Evolution Title: This is Essay# 3 from" Science and Hebrew Tradition." (1882); as cited in: William Trufant Foster, (1908) Argumentation and debating, p. 55
“Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness.”
— Cyril Bibby in 'T.H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist and Educator (1959) p. 56
“His voice was low, clear and distinct... Professor Huxley's method is slow, precise, and clear, and he guards the positions that he takes with astuteness and ability. He does not utter anything in reckless fashion which conviction sometimes countenances and excuses, but rather with the deliberation that research and close inquiry foster.”
— Newspaper account of speech at opening of Johns Hopkins University (13 September 1876), quoted in The Great Influenza : The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (2005) by John M. Barry, p. 13

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Notable quotes

“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.”
— "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854) p. 29
“Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.”
— Ch.2, p. 74
“If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to any one who will take it of me.”
— "On Descartes' Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth" (1870)
“Scientific men get an awkward habit — no, I won't call it that, for it is a valuable habit — of believing nothing unless there is evidence for it; and they have a way of looking upon belief which is not based upon evidence, not only as illogical, but as immoral.”
— Thomas Henry Huxley. "Lectures on Evolution Title: This is Essay# 3 from" Science and Hebrew Tradition." (1882); as cited in: William Trufant Foster, (1908) Argumentation and debating, p. 55
“Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness.”
— Cyril Bibby in 'T.H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist and Educator (1959) p. 56
“His voice was low, clear and distinct... Professor Huxley's method is slow, precise, and clear, and he guards the positions that he takes with astuteness and ability. He does not utter anything in reckless fashion which conviction sometimes countenances and excuses, but rather with the deliberation that research and close inquiry foster.”
— Newspaper account of speech at opening of Johns Hopkins University (13 September 1876), quoted in The Great Influenza : The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (2005) by John M. Barry, p. 13

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Sir Thomas Henry (1807 – 1876) was an Anglo-Irish police magistrate. Life Thomas was born in Dublin in 1807. He was the eldest son of David Henry of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin and head of the government contractor firm Henry, Mullins, & MacMahon. He was educated at Von Feinagle's school in that city and later studied at Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. 1824 and M.A. 1827. On 23 January 1829, he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, went the northern circuit, and attended the West Riding of Yorkshire sessions. He was magistrate at the Lambeth Street police-court, Whitechapel, from April 1840 until 1846. In 1846, he was transferred to Bow Street, became chief magistrate there 6 July 1864, and was knighted on 30 Nov. He discharged his duties with general approval. He created the existing English law of extradition; the Extradition Act 1862, and the various treaties accordingly connecting England and foreign powers. He for many years served as the chief adviser of the English government on administrative and correctional police, and his opinion was acted upon in the various licensing bills, the betting acts, Sunday trading legislation, and similar measures.

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