Born Hereford, England 3/8/1879    Died Pinehaven, Upper Hutt 10/8/1956

Educated at Hereford County College, Oxford and Birmingham Universities

LDS RCS (Eng) 1903, BDS (Birmingham) 1904, MB ChB (Birmingham) 1905, MD (Birmingham) 1911, MDS (Birmingham) 1911, MCh (Birmingham) 1923

Initially worked in dental practice in Hereford, and in the dental department of the Birmingham General Hospital.
Lecturer in Dental Pathology and Histology, University of Birmingham

Founding Director, University of Otago Dental School 1907 - 1916

WW1 service with NZMC, establishing a unit for the treatment of facial and jaw injuries at No2 NZ General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames.  The unit was transferred to Sidcup in 1918, and then to Dunedin in 1919.
Henry resumed the position of Dean, Otago University Dental School in 1919 and continued in that role until 1927.

Senior Plastic Surgeon, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney 1927 - 1934
Private plastic surgery practice in Wellington, operating at Lewisham Hospital, 1935 - 1937.
Established the Plastic Surgery Unit at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland 1937 - 1939.
With his wife Cecily, established the Bassam Hospital in Lower Hutt, for plastic surgery in children.
Senior Plastic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1940 - 1945