Henry B. Wheatley

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."^[1]

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.^[2]

Wheatley was Assistant Secretary to Royal Society of Arts, 1879–1909; founding member (1903) and President of the Samuel Pepys Club, 1903–10; Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society, 1908–10, and its President 1911–13.^[3] In 1909 he was the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, an English bibliophile dining-club.^[4]^[5]

He is buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works

Articles

Gomme, G. L. (1884). "Folk-Lore Terminology". Folk-Lore Journal. 2: 340–347. doi:10.1080/17442524.1884.10602756.
"Celebrated Birthplaces: Samuel Johnson at Lichfield". The Antiquary: 233–239. December 1884.
"Post-Restoration Quartos of Shakespeare's Plays". The Library. Third Series. 4 (15): 237–269. July 1913.

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, [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904^[6]
Literary Blunders, 1905

As editor

Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue by Alexander Hume at Project Gutenberg, 1865; 2nd edition, 1870
Editor, Books in Chains by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892

References

^ "The London Topographical Society: A brief account" by Stephen Marks in The London Topographical Record, 1980, pp. 1-10.
^ Lee, J. D. "Wheatley, Henry Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38397. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "The Bibliographical Society -- Past Presidents". Archived from the original on 4 August 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
^ "The father of British indexing: Henry Benjamin Wheatley" by J. D. Lee
^ "Wheatley, Henry Benjamin". Who's Who: 2259. 1912.
^ "Review: The Story of London by Henry B. Wheatley". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 98: 369. 17 September 1904.

External links

Works by Henry B. Wheatley at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Henry B. Wheatley at the Internet Archive
Works by Henry B. Wheatley at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Works by Henry B. Wheatley at Open Library

[1] "The London Topographical Society: A brief account" by Stephen Marks in The London Topographical Record, 1980, pp. 1-10.

[2] Lee, J. D. "Wheatley, Henry Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38397. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[3] "The Bibliographical Society -- Past Presidents". Archived from the original on 4 August 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2012.

[4] "The father of British indexing: Henry Benjamin Wheatley" by J. D. Lee

[5] "Wheatley, Henry Benjamin". Who's Who: 2259. 1912.

[6] "Review: The Story of London by Henry B. Wheatley". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 98: 369. 17 September 1904.

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