# Avril Henry

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{{short description|British university teacher and activist}}
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'''Avril K. Henry''' (5 April 1935 – 20 April 2016) was an English professor of medieval culture and activist for the legalisation of euthanasia. She died by suicide in 2016.

== Biography ==
Henry was born in [Lincoln, Lincolnshire](/source/Lincoln%2C_Lincolnshire) to [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force) officer Robert Charles Henry and Eileen Florence Whattam Henry.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Henry worked as a professor of English [medieval](/source/medieval) culture at the [University of Exeter](/source/University_of_Exeter). She researched the theory of [typology](/source/Typology_(theology)).

Henry campaigned for the legalisation of voluntary [euthanasia](/source/euthanasia). She died by [suicide](/source/suicide) at her home in [Brampford Speke](/source/Brampford_Speke), [Devon](/source/Devon), near [Exeter](/source/Exeter), on 20 April 2016, aged 81. Her home had been raided by police the previous week after they were tipped off by [Interpol](/source/Interpol) that she had bought a euthanasia kit from Mexico.<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert Mendick |date=21 April 2016 |title=Retired professor 'killed herself' days after police raid in search of imported drugs |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/retired-professor-killed-herself-days-after-police-raid-in-searc/ |newspaper=[The Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Morris |first=Steven |date=21 April 2016 |title=Academic kills herself after importing 'euthanasia kit' illegally |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/21/academic-kills-herself-after-importing-euthanasia-kit-illegally |newspaper=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Minchin |first=Rod |date=22 April 2016 |title=Professor 'killed herself with euthanasia kit bought online' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/professor-avril-henry-killed-herself-with-euthanasia-kit-bought-online-assisted-suicide-a6996656.html |work=[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Davey |first=Melissa |date=22 April 2016 |title=Police raid pushed academic to end her life, says euthanasia advocate |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/22/police-raid-pushed-academic-to-end-her-life-euthanasia-advocate-philip-nitschke |newspaper=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*''Biblia Pauperum''. Scolar, Aldershot, 1987; {{ISBN|9780859675420}}
*''The Mirour of Mans Saluacioune: a Middle English translation of Speculum humanae salvationis: a critical edition of the fifteenth-century manuscript illustrated from Der Spiegel der Meschen Behaltnis, Speyer, Drach, c. 1475;'' University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987; {{ISBN|0812280547|}}
*''The Eton Roundels: Eton College MS 177 'Figurae Bibliorum' A Colour Facsimile With Transcription, Translation and Commentary''; {{ISBN|978-0859677561}}

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Category:Academics of the University of Exeter
Category:Female suicides

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