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==Education==
From a prominent [[Sephardic]] Jewish family, Henriques was educated at [[Lockers Park School]] in Hertfordshire and [[Harrow School|Harrow]].<ref name=":0"/> He studied Modern History at [[University College, Oxford]], and graduated with a [[Third-class honours|third class honours]] in 1913.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Oxford University Honours: Modern History|date=1 August 1913|work=The Manchester Guardian|page=5}}</ref>
==First World War==
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==Professional life==
[[File:Southcote.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Henriques’ house at Southcote, where Jewish children had recuperative holidays.]]
In addition to writing reforms to religious Jewish ceremonies,<ref name=":1"/> Henriques set up boys' clubs for deprived Jewish children.<ref name=":2"/> In 1914, Henriques founded the Oxford and St George's Club; this later developed into the Bernhard Baron St George's Jewish Settlement.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=Sir Basil Henriques dies, aged 71|last=Blom-Cooper|first=Louis|date=3 December 1961|work=The Observer|page=2}}</ref> The boys received education, vocational training, recreation and holidays in the country.
From 1923 until 1950, he would frequently send deprived, sick or merely tired children to his country home, Southcote Cottage, at [[Southcote, Bedfordshire|Southcote]], [[Linslade]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] for rest and recuperation. The cottage, in reality a large house, was loaned to him by his friend and fellow Jew [[Anthony Gustav de Rothschild]], Southcourt being part of Rothschild’s [[Ascott House|Ascott Estate]].{{cn|date=January 2023}} In 1923 Henriques became a [[magistrate]],<ref name=":2"/> and was named a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1948 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38311|date=10 June 1948|page=3374}}</ref> He was [[knight]]ed in 1955.<ref name=":2"/> He served as chairman of the East London Juvenile Court for 19 years, and served as a magistrate for 32 years. He retired from the Bench in 1956.<ref name=":3"/><ref>{{Cite news|title=Death of Sir Basil Henriques|date=4 December 1961|work=The Guardian|page=1}}</ref>
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==Written work==
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Basil Henriques was the author of several books, mostly concerned with the care of youth, including:
*(1933) ''Club Leadership''.
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*(1955) ''The Home-menders: the Prevention of Unhappiness in Children''.
In his role as a children's court magistrate, he also wrote the foreword to the [[Enid Blyton]]
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