Henry Jenkins (11 February 1501 (allegedly) - buried on 9 December 1670 in Bolton-on-Swale, North Riding of Yorkshire) was an English supercentenarian claimant said to have been 169 years old at his death.

It is known that he lived at Ellerton on Swale, Scorton, North Riding of Yorkshire[1] and claimed to have been butler to Lord Conyers, of Hornby Castle, where the Abbot of Fountains was a frequent guest, and "did drink a hearty glass with his Lordship.

[3] Chancery Court records show that in 1667 Jenkins stated on oath that he was aged "one hundreth fifty and seven or thereabouts";[1] when asked by the judge which notable battle he remembered, he named Flodden Field of 1513 and claimed to have carried arrows to the English archers.

In 1743, in his memory an obelisk was erected in the churchyard, and a plaque made of black marble was placed inside the church;[1] the inscription on it, composed by Dr Thomas Chapman, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge,[6] reads Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory of Henry Jenkins, a person obscure in birth, but of a life truly memorable, for he was enriched with the goods of nature if not of fortune, and happy in the duration if not the variety of his enjoyments.

[3]In 1829, the journal The Mirror of Literature claimed that if Jenkins had followed his legal obligations, during his life he would have changed his religion eight times, between the reigns of Henry VII and Charles II.