Foster: s. Henry, of Waddesdon, Bucks, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. entry 14 Feb., 1622-3, aged 12, B.A. 25 Nov., 1626, M.A. 11 June, 1629, B.D. 16 Nov., 1638, canon of Christ Church 1648-60, created D.D. 24 July, 1649, and Margaret professor of divinity 1652-60, commonly called "Long Harry"; minister of St. Faith under St. Paul's, one of the Westminster assembly of divines, rector of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West 1645, became a nonconformist preacher at Clapham, Surrey; died there in June 1675, buried in St. Dunstan's-in-the-West; brother of John 1620. See Ath. iii. 1038; Burrows, 493, 567; & Calamy, i. 241.
Bancroft of Oxford initially denied him priest's orders: see BL, Add. MS 26785, fo. 74r.