Henry Beard Delany (February 5, 1858 – April 14, 1928) was an American clergyman and the first African-American person elected Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Owen Thackera, funded a scholarship to allow Delany to attend St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He taught carpentry and masonry and supervised building projects, as well as (after the ordinations discussed below) serving as the school's vice-principal (1889-1908), chaplain and musician.

Delany was unanimously elected suffragan bishop for Negro Work at the North Carolina diocesan convention, and consecrated in 1918.

[8] Delany married his class valedictorian (and fellow St. Augustine's College faculty member) Nannie James (1861–1956) of Danville, Virginia, in 1886.

They had ten children, including long-lived civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany, who had landmark careers in New York.