Eugène Henry (22 December 1862 – 27 December 1930) was a Belgian

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and governor-general of

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from 5 January 1916 until 30 January 1921. He is buried in the

Brussels Cemetery Brussels Cemetery (; ) is a cemetery belonging to the City of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the neighbouring municipality of Evere, rather than in the City of Brussels proper, it is adjacent to Schaerbeek Cemetery and Evere Cemet ...

Evere Evere (; ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium). , the municipality had a population of 43,608 inhabitants. The total area is , which gives a population density of . In common with all of Brussels' municipal ...

References

HENRY (Eugène Joseph Marie)
in ''Biographie Coloniale Belge'' (Inst. roy. colon. belge; T. IV, 1955, col. 390–394)

Archive Eugène Henry
Royal museum for central Africa 1862 births 1930 deaths Belgian civil servants Governors-general of the Belgian Congo People from Soignies Walloon people Belgian people of World War I {{Belgium-bio-stub