Henry Whitehead (businessman)
Henry Whitehead may refer to: *J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician * Henry Whitehead (bishop) (1853–1947), Bishop of Madras and father of J. H. C. Whitehead *Henry Whitehead (priest) (1825–1896), English minister * Henry Whitehead (MP) (1574–1629), English MP * Henry S. Whitehead (1882–1932), American writer See also *Harry Whitehead (1874–1944), cricketer *Whitehead (surname) Whitehead is a surname. Recorded in a number of spellings including Whithead, Whitehed, Whithed, and Whitsed, this surname is of English language, English origins. It usually derives from the Old English pre–7th century word "hwit" meaning white, ...

Henry Whitehead (bishop)
Henry Whitehead (19 December 185314 April 1947) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the last decade of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. Whitehead was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1879, his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon. He then emigrated to India where he was principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta from 1883 to 1899. On St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899, he was consecrated a bishop by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral, to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras, an office he held for 23 years. In 1903 he married Isabel Duncan. A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947."Obituary Bishop Whitehead Forty Years In India" ''The Times'' Thursday, 17 April 1947; p. 7; Issue 50737; col E He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD). Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the father of the mathematician J. H. C. W ...
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Henry Whitehead (priest)
Henry Whitehead (22 September 1825 – 5 March 1896) was a Church of England priest and the assistant curate of St Luke's Church in Soho, London, during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, 1854 cholera outbreak. A former believer in the Miasma theory, miasma theory of disease, Whitehead worked to disprove false theories, but eventually came to prefer John Snow (physician), John Snow's idea that cholera spreads through water contaminated by human waste. Snow's work — and Whitehead's own investigations — convinced Whitehead that the Soho#Broad Street pump, Broad Street pump was the source of the local infections. Whitehead then joined with Snow in tracking the contamination to a Cesspit, cesspool that leaked into the water table which led to the outbreak's index case. Whitehead's work with Snow combined demographics, demographic study with scientific observation, setting important precedent for the burgeoning science of epidemiology. Whitehead served in several other ...
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Henry Whitehead (MP)
Sir Henry Whitehead, sometimes written as Whithed (3 September 1574 – 27 April 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1629. Whitehead was born on 3 September 1574, the only son of Richard Whitehead of Norman Court, and his wife Christian, daughter of William Jephson of Froyle, Hampshire. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford in 1589. He inherited the estates of Norman Court and Shirley, Hampshire in 1593. He was knighted on 23 July 1603, and in 1609 he was High Sheriff of Hampshire.Sir Egerton Brydges, Stebbing Shaw''The topographer: containing a variety of original articles'', Volume 1, p. 464/ref> In 1625, Whitehead was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire. He was elected MP for Winchester in 1626 and for Stockbridge in 1628. Whitehead was twice married. His first wife, by a settlement dated 20 March 1593, was Anne, daughter of James Weston, the chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield. The couple had three sons and two daughters ...
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Henry S
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ...
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Harry Whitehead
Harry Whitehead (19 September 1874 – 14 September 1944) was an English cricketer active from 1898 to 1922 who played for Leicestershire. He was born in Barlestone and died in Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l .... He appeared in 382 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace and sometimes kept wicket. He scored 15,112 runs with a highest score of 174 among fourteen centuries and took 106 wickets with a best performance of five for 80. He completed 409 catches. Notes 1874 births 1944 deaths English cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Non-international England cricketers Players cricketers People from Barlestone Cricketers from Leicestershire {{england-cricket-bio-1870s-stub ...
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