Henry Beveridge (9 February 1837 – 8 November 1929) was an Indian Civil Service officer and orientalist in India.
From November 1863 he was posted for one year to the Foreign Department, serving in Manipur on special duty, after which he was sent to Kuch Behar as Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector and then successively transferred to Dhaka, Noakhali, Hughli, Barisal, Chittagong and back to Barisal in June 1871.
He married Annette Akroyd, one of the first graduates of Bedford College and translator of Persian and Turki (Chagatai) texts.
[11] Beveridge retired to Pitfold, Shottermill, Surrey, England, where he devoted his time to studying and writing about India before dying in 1929.
[11] Beveridge was an atheist and "an ardent discipline of the French positivist philosopher Auguste Comte" and his theories of altruism and the religion of humanity.