Henry Nott (1774–1844) was a British Protestant Christian missionary who lived and worked in Tahiti, in the Society Islands in Polynesia.

Then, when it was loaded with supplies and returning to Tahiti, it was taken by a French ship, Britain and France being at war during the reign of Napoleon.

During the five-year wait for resupply, several of his fellow missionaries deserted, died, or seemed to go mad.

Missionary historian Ruth A. Tucker describes Nott as the primary translator of the Bible into Tahitian,[2] writing: But for the perseverance of Henry Nott, the work in Tahiti would no doubt have been abandoned.

[3]He married a newly arrived missionary from Britain, but she was not content in Tahiti and died within two years.