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Husband: | William Henty (1808-1881) | |
Wife: | Susannah Matilda Camfield (c. 1804-1879) | |
Marriage | 18 Aug 1834 | St Nicholas, Brighton, Sussex |
Name: | William Henty | |
Sex: | Male | |
Father: | Thomas Henty (1775-1839) | |
Mother: | Frances Elizabeth Hopkins (1775-1848) | |
Birth | 23 Sep 1808 | Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex |
Census | 1871 (age 62-63) | Retired solicitor, 2 Norfolk Terrace, Brighton |
Death fact | 1881 (age 72-73) | 1881 Sep Qtr, Steyning, 2b/148 (aged 72) |
Death | 11 Jul 1881 (age 72) | Hove, Sussex |
Name: | Susannah Matilda Camfield | |
Sex: | Female | |
Father: | - | |
Mother: | - | |
Birth | c. 1804 | Speldhurst, Kent |
Death fact | 1879 (age 74-75) | 1879 Jun Qtr, Steyning, 2b/187 (aged 75) |
Death | 1879 (age 74-75) | Steyning, Sussex |
William Henty arrived at Launceston, Tasmania, in January 1837 with his wife Susannah Matilda, née Camfield; a solicitor, he entered practice in partnership with John Ward Gleadow. William Henty was prominent in church, educational and horticultural activities in Tasmania. He was also noted as a cricketer, and is on record as having bowled the first ever ball in Australian first-class cricket (for Tasmania vs. Victoria on 11.2.1851). He represented Tamar in the House of Assembly and became colonial secretary in 1856. Resigning in 1862 he returned to England, where he died in 1881.
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition
Cricket information about William Henty from CricInfoAustralia
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5641.html