Henry Baker Tristram FRS (11 May 1822 – 8 March 1906) was an English clergyman, Bible scholar, traveller and ornithologist.

He explored the Sahara desert, and in 1858 visited Palestine, returning there in 1863 and 1872, and dividing his time between natural history observations and identifying localities mentioned in the Old and New Testaments.

[7] Following the famous Oxford Debate between Thomas Henry Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce, Tristram, after early acceptance of the theory, rejected Darwinism.

[8] Tristram was a founder and original member of the British Ornithologists' Union, and appointed a fellow of the Royal Society in 1868.

During his travels he accumulated an extensive collection of bird skins, which he sold to the World Museum Liverpool.