Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA (1838–30 April 1917) was a British

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, and indexer. His '' London Past and Present'' was described as his most important work and "the standard dictionary of London".

Life

Family grave of Henry Benjamin Wheatley in Highgate Cemetery

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

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, 1879-1909; founding member (1903) and President of the

Samuel Pepys Club The Samuel Pepys Club is a London club founded in 1903 to do honour to the memory of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the English naval administrator and Member of Parliament now best known as a diarist. Origin On 26 May 1903, at the Garrick Club in ...

, 1903-1910; Vice-President of the

Bibliographical Society Founded in 1892, The Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history in the United Kingdom. Largely owing to the efforts of Walter Arthur Copinger, who was supported by Richard Copley ...

, 1908-1910, and its President 1911-1913. 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 Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...

Works

Articles

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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 Samuel Pepys (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no mariti ...

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 Thomas Robert Way (1861 - 1913) was an English painter of landscapes and portraits, lithographer and printer, who exhibited in London between 1883 and 1893. Way was born in London. He trained at the South Kensington Art Schools and designed p ...

)
''How to Make an Index''
1902.
''The Story of London''
ediæval Towns Series1904
''Literary Blunders''
1905

As editor

* , 1865
''2nd edition''
1870 * Editor
''Books in Chains''
by

William Blades William Blades (5 December 182427 April 1890), English printer and bibliographer, was born at Clapham, London. Career In 1840 he was apprenticed to his father's printing business in London, being subsequently taken into partnership. The ...

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

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