Henry Maister

Henry Maister (1699–1744), of Hull and Winestead, Yorkshire, was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741.

In 1716, he succeeded his father, and ran the family mercantile business with his brother Nathaniel.

[1] He married as his second wife Mary Cayley, daughter of Sir Arthur Cayley, 3rd Baronet, of Brompton, Yorkshire on 19 January 1727 [2] Maister was Sheriff of Kingston upon Hull in 1729.

On 13 April 1743 a fire destroyed the family house in High Street, Hull and his wife Mary and her infant son died, along with two maidservants.

Maister immediately began rebuilding on the same High Street site [1] He died on 15 December 1744.