Henry Burdett

Sir Henry Charles Burdett KCB (18 March 1847 – 29 April 1920) was an English financier and philanthropist.

He was born at Broughton, Northamptonshire, the son of the Reverend Halford Burdett, a Leicestershire clergyman, and his wife Alsina.

In 1880 he became secretary to the share and loan department of the London Stock Exchange and also a member of the committee of management of the Seamen's Hospital Society.

Three years before, in 1882, Burdett's Official Intelligence of Securities, the Stock Exchange encyclopaedia, had appeared for the first time.

Burdett's Hospitals and Charities appeared annually from 1889 and continued until the 1990s as the Health Services Year Book.