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

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, editor, 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 Royal Society of Arts, 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, 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 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''
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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