{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = William Henty | fullname = William Henty | birth_date = {{Birth date|1808|9|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = West Tarring, Sussex, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1881|7|11|1808|9|23|df=yes}} | death_place = Hove, Sussex, England | image = William Henty AUTAS001136190774.jpg | caption = | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = | bowling = underarm | role = | club1 = Tasmania | year1 = 1851–52 | type1 = First-class | debutdate1 = 11 February | debutyear1 = 1851 | debutfor1 = Tasmania | debutagainst1 = Victoria | lastdate1 = 29 March | lastyear1 = 1852 | lastfor1 = Tasmania | lastagainst1 = Victoria | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 1 | bat avg1 = 0.33 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 1 | deliveries1 = 224 | wickets1 = 19 | bowl avg1 = 9.36 | fivefor1 = 2 | tenfor1 = 1 | best bowling1 = 6/40 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 5 January | year = 2011 | source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/2/2557/2557.html}} '''William Henty''' (23 September 1808 in West Tarring, Sussex, England – 11 July 1881 in Hove, Sussex, England). He moved to Van Diemen's Land in 1837 and for over 20 years practised as a solicitor. In 1857 he was elected a member of the legislative council for Tamar and was colonial secretary in the Weston cabinet. He held this office for five and a half years until his resignation in 1862.<ref name="Tas parl">{{Cite Tas Parliament|id=hentyw20|name=William Henty|former=Yes|access-date=2 January 2023}}</ref>
He was also an Australian cricketer, who played two games for Tasmania in 1851. He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia, and having bowled the first ever ball in a first class cricket match in Australia. He opened the bowling for Tasmania in both innings, bowling right arm underarm, and took 4/52, and 5/26 for 9/78 for the match.
He returned to England in 1862, where he remained until his death on 11 July 1881 in Hove, Sussex, England at the age of 72.<ref>Bassett (1966).</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9000799 The Late Mr. Wm. Henty, ''The (Hobart) Mercury'', (Saturday, 10 September 1881), p. 2.]</ref>
He was interested in Shakespeare and after his death a small volume by him, ''Shakespeare with some Notes on his early Biography'', was printed for private circulation. This has little value but contains a memoir of the author by R. Harrison.
==See also== * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers * Henty Brothers
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * {{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Bassett|first=Marnie|author-link=Marnie Bassett|year=1966|volume=1|id2=henty-william-2246|title=Henty, William (1808–1881)|access-date=2022-01-02}} * [https://ia601300.us.archive.org/0/items/cu31924013150499/cu31924013150499.pdf Henty, William (1882), ''Shakespeare, with Some Notes on his early Biography and an Identification of the Characters of William Fenton and Ann Page with William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway'', Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press]. * Hurse, J. Lewis (1933), "Venture and Adventure: The Romantic Story of the Henty Family" **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832363 "'''No.1'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Monday, 31 July 1933), p. 8.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832505 "'''No.2'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Tuesday, 1 August 1933), p. 5.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832687 "'''No.3'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Wednesday, 2 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832928 "'''No.4'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Friday, 4 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51833480 "'''No.5'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Wednesday, 9 August 1933), p. 3.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51833608 "'''No.6'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Thursday, 10 August 1933), p. 10.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51833951 "'''No.7'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Monday, 14 August 1933), p. 8.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51834396 "'''No.8'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Thursday, 17 August 1933), p. 8.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51834961 "'''No.9'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Tuesday, 22 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51835488 "'''No.10'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Saturday, 26 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51835787 "'''No.11'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Tuesday, 29 August 1933), p. 8.]
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