Henry B. Wheatley
{{Short description|British author, editor, and indexer}}
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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."[http://www.topsoc.org/uploads/documents/marks.pdf "The London Topographical Society: A brief account"] by Stephen Marks in The London Topographical Record, 1980, pp. 1-10.
Life
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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.{{cite ODNB|id=38397|title=Wheatley, Henry Benjamin|first=J. D.|last=Lee}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/presidents.htm |title=The Bibliographical Society -- Past Presidents |access-date=2012-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804010233/http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/presidents.htm |archive-date=2009-08-04 }} In 1909 he was the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, an English bibliophile dining-club.[http://www.theindexer.org/files/23-2/23-2_086.pdf "The father of British indexing: Henry Benjamin Wheatley" by J. D. Lee]{{cite journal|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047640092;view=1up;seq=2307|title=Wheatley, Henry Benjamin|journal=Who's Who |year=1912|page= 2259}}
He is buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Works
=Articles=
- {{cite journal|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000116550629;view=1up;seq=348|title=Folk-Lore Terminology|journal=Folk-Lore Journal|volume=2|year=1884|pages=340–347|doi=10.1080/17442524.1884.10602756|last1=Gomme|first1=G. L.}}
- {{cite journal|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100380179|title=Celebrated Birthplaces: Samuel Johnson at Lichfield|journal=The Antiquary|date=December 1884|pages=233–239}}
- {{cite journal|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014978210;view=1up;seq=273|title=Post-Restoration Quartos of Shakespeare's Plays|journal=The Library|series=Third Series|date=July 1913|volume=4|issue=15|pages=237–269}}
=Books=
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003797248 Of Anagrams: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time]. Williams & Norgate, 1862.
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000194907 "Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, or, A ramble from Haymarket to Hyde Park"], 1870
- [https://archive.org/details/whatisanindexaf00wheagoog What is an Index?], 1878
- Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 1880, 1st edition; [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007675799 online text, 5th edition, 1907] from hathitrust.org
- [https://archive.org/details/bibliographer00unkngoog The Bibliographer], 1884.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=7CI-AAAAIAAJ How to Form a Library], 1887
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001010533 The Dedication of Books to Patron and Friend], 1887
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008591390 How to Catalogue a Library]. Published by Eliot Stock 1889.
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001175504 Remarkable bindings in the British Museum], 1889
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000154949 London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions]. John Murray, 1891.
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000155389 Reliques of Old London], George Bell & Sons, 1896. (descriptions of buildings with lithographs by Thomas Robert Way)
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100497345 How to Make an Index], 1902.
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000234549 The Story of London], [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904{{cite journal|title=Review: The Story of London by Henry B. Wheatley|journal=The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art|volume=98|date=17 September 1904|page=369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HdHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA369}}
- [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008653870 Literary Blunders], 1905
=As editor=
- {{gutenberg|no=17000|name=Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue by Alexander Hume}}, 1865; [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006054063 2nd edition], 1870
- Editor, [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001166455 Books in Chains] by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892
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Category:Burials at Highgate Cemetery
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