Anthony Henley, 3rd Baron Henley, DL JP (12 April 1825 - 27 November 1898) was born at Drayton Manor, Stafford. He succeeded his father as third Baron Henley in 1841 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He became High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1854 and was elected to the House of Commons for Northampton in 1859 (Liberal), a seat he held until 1874. The Northington title held by his great-grandfather was revived on the 28th of June 1885 and he was created Baron Northington, of Watford in the County of Northampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave him and the later Barons an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He married his first wife on the 31st of July 1846 ; Julia Emily Augusta Peel (1st January 1828 -15th February 1862). She was his cousin and the daughter of the Very Rev John Peel DD, Dean of Worcester and neice of Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister 1834-1835 and 1841-1846. They had five children : Hon Florence Mary Henley (Born 1848, Baptised at St Peter & St Paul Church, Watford on 4th June 1848, died 28th May 1866). Hon Frederic Henley (Born 17th April 1849, Baptised at St Peter & St Paul Church, Watford on 29th July 1849, died 23rd December 1923), later 4th Baron Henley. Hon Anthony Ernest Henley (3rd July 1858, Baptised at St Peter & St Paul Church, Watford 3rd Aug 1858, died 23rd October 1925), later 5th Baron Henley. Hon Gertrude Augusta Henley (Born 1851, died 14th December 1932) and the Hon Evelyn Henley (Born 18th October 1854, Baptised at St Peter & St Paul Church, Watford on 25 Dec 1854 and died 14th February 1910).
After the death of his first wife in 1862 he remarried eight years later. His second wife was Clara Campbell Lucy Jekyll, and they were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square, London on the 30th June 1870. Clara was born in 1838 at Marylebone, Middlesex and was the second daughter of Joseph Henry Storie Jekyll of Mulbarton in Norfolk. She was baptised at Shirley, Southampton on the 30th of July 1838. They had three children : Brigadier General Hon Anthony Morton Henley CMG DSO (4th August 1873, Baptised at St Peter & St Paul Church, Watford on 7th Oct 1873, died 17th May 1925), Hon Francis Robert Henley later Eden (11th April 1877 - 21st April 1962) , later 6th Baron Henley and Hon Harriet Adelaide Louisa Henley (16th April 1871 - 28 March 1879).
Anthony Henley (3rd Baron Henley) died on the 27th of November 1898, aged 73 years. His funeral service took place at the Church of St Peter & St Paul, followed by interment in the vault beneath. He was succeeded by his eldest son; Frederic. Probate was granted to his widow and son (see entry below). His 2nd wife, Clara, died on the 11th of November 1922 and buried at Putney Vale Cemetery, Wandsworth, Surrey on the 14th of November 1922.