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, 18791909; founding member (1903) and President of the Samuel Pepys Club, 190310; Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society, 190810, and its President 191113. 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

• . Williams & Norgate, 1862.

• "Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, or, A ramble from Haymarket to Hyde Park", 1870

• , 1878

• Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 1880, 1st edition; online text, 5th edition, 1907 from hathitrust.org

• , 1884.

• How to Form a Library. Published by Elliot Stock, London. 2nd edition 1886, 3rd edition 1887

• , 1887

• . Published by Elliot Stock, London. 1889.

• , 1889

• . John Murray, 1891.

• , George Bell & Sons, 1896. (descriptions of buildings with lithographs by Thomas Robert Way)

• , 1902.

• , [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904

• , 1905

As editor

• , 1865; , 1870

• Editor, by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892

• Diary by Samuel Pepys (1893) - annotator and editor

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