Henry Archer (bp 18 November 1700 – 16 March 1768) of Hale, Hampshire was a British Member of Parliament.
[2] A practising lawyer, he became a trustee in 1734, together with his elder brother, for the newly formed colony of Georgia on the east coast of America.
After Sir Robert Walpole's fall he was included in "the list of ministerial supporters but was absent from the division on the Hanoverians in December 1742, voting against them in 1744.
In December 1744 he moved unsuccessfully to double the tax on places and pensions to ease the landed interest.
"[2] On 22 December 1743, Archer married Lady Elizabeth Montagu (d. 1789), a daughter of George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax and Lady Mary Lumley (a daughter of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarborough).