Henry B. Wheatley
Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA 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 and President of the Samuel Pepys Club, 1903-1910; Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society, 1908-1910, and its President 1911-1913. In 1909 he was the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, an English bibliophile dining-club.Works
Articles
Books
- . Williams & Norgate, 1862.
- , 1870
- , 1878
- Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 1880, 1st edition; from hathitrust.org
- , 1884.
- , 1887
- , 1887
- . Published by Eliot Stock 1889.
- , 1889
- . John Murray, 1891.
- , George Bell & Sons, 1896.
- , 1902.
- , 1904
- , 1905
As editor
- , 1865; , 1870
- Editor, by William Blades, 1892
