Henry Maister

Henry Maister (1699–1744), of Hull and Winestead, Yorkshire, was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741.

Maister was baptized on 1 February 1699, the eldest son of William Maister, a merchant of Hull. In 1716, he succeeded his father, and ran the family mercantile business with his brother Nathaniel. He married Mary Tymperon, daughter of Rev. Henry Tymperon of Carnaby, Yorkshire on 25 August 1724. She died in of smallpox in 1725.

Maister was Sheriff of Kingston upon Hull in 1729. He was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull at a by-election on 6 February 1734, and then elected in a contest at the 1734 British general election soon after. He voted regularly with the Government. He did not stand in 1741.