Henry B. Wheatley

Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA (1838 – 30 April 1917) was a British author, editor, and indexer. His London Past and Present was described as his most important work and "the standard dictionary of London."

Life

He was a posthumous son of Benjamin Wheatley, an auctioneer, and his wife Madalina; the bibliographer Benjamin Robert Wheatley was his brother, and passed on expertise.

Wheatley was Assistant Secretary to Royal Society of Arts, 1879–1909; founding member (1903) and President of the Samuel Pepys Club, 1903–10; Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society, 1908–10, and its President 1911–13. In 1909 he was the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, an English bibliophile dining-club.

He is buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works Articles

Books Of Anagrams: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Williams & Norgate, 1862. "Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, or, A ramble from Haymarket to Hyde Park", 1870 What is an Index?, 1878 Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 1880, 1st edition; online text, 5th edition, 1907 from hathitrust.org The Bibliographer, 1884. How to Form a Library. Published by Elliot Stock, London. 2nd edition 1886, 3rd edition 1887 The Dedication of Books to Patron and Friend, 1887 How to Catalogue a Library. Published by Elliot Stock, London. 1889. Remarkable bindings in the British Museum, 1889 London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions. John Murray, 1891. Reliques of Old London, George Bell & Sons, 1896. (descriptions of buildings with lithographs by Thomas Robert Way) How to Make an Index, 1902. The Story of London, [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904 Literary Blunders, 1905

As editor , 1865; 2nd edition, 1870 Editor, Books in Chains by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892 Diary by Samuel Pepys (1893) - annotator and editor