Philip Henry

SS 's father, the Rev. Philip Henry , was an Oxford graduate whose religious views were shaped by Puritans, and who became distinguished as a Nonconformist minister and gifted preacher. He was ordained in the...

While another clergyman taught Sarah to read, her father, Philip Henry , taught her Hebrew. When she was only six or seven she could understand both the meaning and the syntax of a Hebrew psalm...

Williams (a Nonconformist writer who had been a personal friend of SS 's grand-daughter Mrs Brett) said he found it hard to make his selection because her writing was so generally of superior excellence...