William Hendley
William Hendley may refer to: * Bill Hendley (1834–1895), New Zealand cricketer * William Hendley (priest) (1691–1724), Church of England clergyman See also * William Henley (other) William Henley may refer to: * William Cumming Henley (1860–1919), British artist, naturalist and botanist, and scientific microscopist * William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), British poet, critic and author * William Thomas Henley William Thoma ...

Bill Hendley
William Hendley (16 November 1834 – 4 September 1895)His age at death was given as 57, so he may have been born in 1837 or 1838. was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Otago between 1864 and 1873. Life and career Hendley was born in England, where he worked as a farm labourer in East Anglia before migrating to the Victorian goldfields in about 1860. He played cricket in the Castlemaine area between 1860 and 1864.George Thomas, "Stumped and Bowled Hendley", ''The Cricket Statistician'', Spring 2022, pp. 17–22. Hendley moved to Dunedin in 1864 and took up the position of groundsman and professional bowler and coach with the Dunedin Cricket Club. A right-arm medium-paced bowler, he was a strong man, five feet ten and a half inches tall, said to be able to carry a sack of wheat under each arm. Hendley was one of the first bowlers in first-class cricket to run out a batsman who was backing up out of his crease. He did it on two occasions, both ...
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William Hendley (priest)
William Hendley (1691–1724) was a Church of England clergyman of controversial views who strongly advocated charity schools to provide free education for disadvantaged children. Origins Baptised at Bearsted in Kent on 11 April 1691 into the Hendley family of landowners, he was the son of William Hendley (1657-1724) and his first wife Elizabeth (died 1697). His father was a younger son of John Hendley (1617-1676) and his wife Priscilla Fludd (1627-1684). Career In 1708 he was admitted to Pembroke Hall at Cambridge, where he gained a BA. Ordained a deacon at Ely in 1712, he was later ordained a priest in London in 1715. The next year he was appointed lecturer of St James, Clerkenwell and from there took part in the Bangorian controversy, criticising Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, in 1717 for allegedly destroying the authority of the Church of England and of its clergy. In 1718 he was elected to the lectureship of St Mary's Church, Islington and was also appointed chap ...
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