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.

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, 1887
 * The Dedication of Books to Patron and Friend, 1887
 * How to Catalogue a Library. Published by Eliot Stock 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