W. Barklie Henry

William Barklie Henry (December 5, 1867 – December 24, 1930) was an American stockbroker and yachtsman. He became a millionaire as the co-founder of Henry & West, later known as West & Company, a brokerage firm in Philadelphia. Described as "one of the most expert yachting sailors" in the United States, His father, Morton Henry, was an attorney. One of his cousins married Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr., son of Anthony Joseph Drexel, investment banker and the founder of Drexel University.

Henry was educated at St. Paul's School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889. and the New York Yacht Club. He was the winner of many yachting races held off the coast of Long Island. He was described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as "one of the most expert yachting sailors" in the United States. They had a son, Barklie McKee Henry (1902-1966), who married Barbara, the daughter of Harry Payne Whitney and a daughter, Alice Ellen (1906-1989), who married Hans von Briesen.

His second wife, Mary Faris Pancoast Conaway, was the widow of John L. Conaway, a renowned horseman. They wed in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1912. Henry was a member of the Philadelphia Club and the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. His stepdaughter, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt, married yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt in 1933, and she became a socialite and philanthropist.