Henry B. Wheatley
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates 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
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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, [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904[6]
- Literary Blunders, 1905
As editor
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- Editor, Books in Chains by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892
References
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- 1838 births
- 1917 deaths
- Burials at Highgate Cemetery
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Presidents of the Bibliographical Society
- 19th-century British writers
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- Historians of London
- Indexers