Sir Henry de Boulay Forde (20 March 1933 – 15 October 2024) was a Barbadian politician and lawyer who served as the Leader of the Opposition from 1986 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1993.

[1][2] Henry de Boulay Forde was born on 20 March 1933 on Water Street, Christ Church, Barbados to a working class family and attended Christ Church Boys’ Foundation School for the start of his secondary education,[1] from which he won a scholarship to Harrison College, the premier boys' secondary school of the island, from which he won the Barbados Scholarship in Classics which took him to Christ's College, Cambridge University for his law degree.

He would then be appointed Minister of External Affairs and Attorney-General of Barbados in 1976, serving until 1981 in the Tom Adams administration.

After Tom Adams' death, and Bernard St. John's premiership ended with the 1986 Barbadian general election he would assume leadership of the BLP in 1986 and the position as Leader of the Opposition until 1989 when Richard Christopher Haynes broke away from the then in-power Democratic Labour Party with some other DLP members, forming the National Democratic Party which became the second largest party in the House of Assembly of Barbados making Haynes the new leader of the opposition.

[1] Owen Arthur then succeeded him as party leader who would then go on to win the 1994 Barbadian general election.