HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714), English nonconform ist divine, was born on the confines of Flintshire and Shropshire, on Oct. 8, 1662. He was the son of Philip Henry, who had, two months earlier, been ejected by the Act of Uniformity. In 1687 Matthew Henry became minister of a Presbyterian congregation at Chester, removing in 1712 to Mare street, Hackney. Two years later (June 22, 1714), he died suddenly at Nantwich. Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-10) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind.
See biographies by W. Tong (1816), C. Chapman 0859), J. B. Williams (1828, new ed. 1865) ; and M. H. Lee, Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry (1883).