Sir Henry Edward McCallum, GCMG (28 October 1852 – 24 November 1919) was a British colonial governor.

However he was involved in a public spat with James MacRitchie the Municipal Engineer who recommended against the introduction of electricity.

[2] His tenure in Natal included the last year of the Second Boer War, with guerrilla fighting in neighbouring Transvaal and Orange River Colony.

The period following the war was succeeded by commercial depression, though in Natal it was not so severely felt as in other states of South Africa.

The government of Natal met the crisis by renewed energy in harbour works, railway constructions and the development of the natural resources of the country.