Samuel Henshall (1764 or 1765 – 17 November 1807) was an English clergyman and writer, and inventor of a type of corkscrew.
His tutor was Thomas Braithweite, an old Manchester schoolboy, whom he mentions gratefully in his "Etymological Organic Reasoner", p. 8.
[1] In December 1792, being then curate of Christ Church, Spitalfields, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the lectureship of St Peter the Poor, and preached a probationary sermon, afterwards published.
In November 1800 he stood, again without success, for the Anglo-Saxon professorship at Oxford against Thomas Hardcastle (The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 70 part 2 p. 1097).
[5] On 24 August 2009, a commemorative plaque for Henshall's burial place, mentioning his invention, was presented to the Reverend Michael Peet at Bow Church.