Henry Burling (5 October 1807 – 17 September 1911)[1] was an English-born New Zealand centenarian who was a mail carrier and farmer.

He was born in Stratford, Essex (now East London), England, United Kingdom on 5 October 1807 to Thomas Burling, a soap maker, and Joanna Pike.

He emigrated to New Zealand on the ship called London with his wife Mary Worsley (whom he had married on 27 January 1839 in Marylebone, Middlesex), arriving on 1 May 1842; one son, Charles, died aged 3 on the journey.

[2][3] Burling died at his home of Waikanae, after 5 weeks of suffering from bronchitis and a paralytic stroke, survived by three of his thirteen children: Arthur (73), with whom he was living, Henry (86) and Sarah Goodin (69).

At the time he was incorrectly said to have been a supercentenarian, allegedly having lived to 110, although the term was probably not coined then, in his later years he was mentally still alert and strong, but suffering bad eyesight from an earlier accident.