Early Life
Brian Glynn Henry was born in February 1926 in Liverpool and was educated at Stowe School under JF Roxburgh from September 1940 to April 1944 where he obtained School and Higher Certificates, and later at Trinity College Cambridge where he obtained an Honours Degree in English.
During the 2nd World War Brian Henry served in the Navy. First as a rating in home waters, and later, after he was commissioned, as a Sub-Lieutenant, RNVR, in the Far East including eight months service as First Lieutenant from 1943 to 1947 in the 273rd Infantry Landing Craft Flotilla.
In 1946, aged 20, he navigated one of HM ships over 10,000 miles from Plymouth to the Philippines. Later, from February to September 1948, Henry served under Lieutenant-Commander HGV Meller, Assistant Secretary to the Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet.
He returned to Cambridge to complete his course and then took his first jobs as a temporary assistant in London University Library, St Marylebone Borough Library in London and at AC Nielsen Marketing Research Organisation in Oxford.
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