John Henley (1677-1732) was a Commoner of Winchester College, 1685 – c.1690, MP for Lyme Regis, 1715-1722. He was the son of Robert Henley of the Grange at Northington, and his second wife, Barbara Every.
For a similar portrait by Enoch Seeman, see his picture of Abraham Tucker (1739) in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 3942).
Provenance: Purchased for the College by Albert H. Gordon in 2001