He moved to England in 1804, and with his brother Samuel, established A & S Henry & Co Ltd, a dealer in cotton.
He died in 1840 when the steamship Lexington caught fire and sank in Long Island Sound.
[4] He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Brush of Willowbrook, Killinchy, County Down.
Henry was active in the postal reform movement[5] and a supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Henry was elected Radical Member of Parliament for South Lancashire at a [by-election in 1847 —caused by Charles Pelham Villiers' decision to sit for another seat—and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election.