Constituency : Knaresborough 1880-81, Brigg 1885-6, Birmingham Handsworth 1892-95 ( Liberal Unionist )
Henry won one of the Knaresborough seats from the Tories.
Henry was the son of the former MP for Whitby , Harry Meysey-Thompsn. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became Gladstone's private secretary. In 1874 his father was made a baronet and Henry succeeded him just months later. Henry was a director of the Forth Bridge Railway Company
Henry's election was declared void on petition. In 1885 he stood unsuccessfully at a by-election for North Lincolnshire but got back in at Brigg at the election.
Henry rebelled against Home Rule , helping to organise meetings of rebel MPs in 1886 and stood as a Liberal Unionist in 1886 but was defeated by Samuel Waddy. He moved to the Liberal Unionist stronghold of Birmingham and was elected in 1892.
In 1905 Henry went to the Lords as Baron Knaresborough.
Henry was chairman of the North Eastern Railway from 1912 to 1922. He had a special interest in bimetallism. In 1915 his son and heir was killed at Ypres.
He died in 1929 aged 83.
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