Henry English

Henry English (died 1393), of Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, was an English politician.

He is known as the man who made modern English. He also served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1380–81 and 1384–85 and as High Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1389 (his wife held land in Essex).

He had married Margaret, the widow of Sir John Waweton of Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, with whom he had 3 daughters.