Francis Henty (30 November 1815 – 15 January 1889), was an early settler of Australia.

[1] Having returned to Tasmania on a visit in the following year, he called in at Port Phillip (now Melbourne) in September, and assisted Mr. Batman, the founder of the city, to pitch a tent on what was afterwards known as Batman's Hill.

According to Mennell (1892), at that stage, the Henty Brothers had not gone more than twenty miles inland with their flocks.

[1][8][9][10][11][12] There is a passing mention in an article in the Adelaide Observer in 1923 of a ship named Francis Henty which sailed to Melbourne in 1851.

[14] There was also a steam dredge, Francis Henty, built in Glasgow in 1889, by Wm.